Kyoto

Weekday departures: 1,606/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 1,543/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:02 / 24:17 (00:17 next day)

Busiest hour in the available data: 8:00–9:00 (110)

0:00 ─ 23:00

Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.

Timetable data as of 17 April 2026 to 3 May 2026: the timetables behind these figures were retrieved on different dates.

The timetable data is incomplete for some or all lines at this station, so the weekday and Sat & holiday figures are departures in the available timetable data, not totals.

Lines where the timetable data is complete: Karasuma Line, San'in Main Line, Tokaido Main Line, Nara Line, Tokaido Shinkansen

Lines where the timetable data is incomplete:

• Kyoto Subway - Kintetsu Kyoto Line: one direction only

• Karasuma Line: Gojo (Kyoto) ⇄ Kujo (Kyoto)
• Kyoto Subway - Kintetsu Kyoto Line: Toji
• San'in Main Line: Umekoji-Kyotonishi
• Tokaido Main Line: Yamashina ⇄ Nishioji
• Nara Line: Tofukuji
• Tokaido Shinkansen: Maibara ⇄ Shin-Osaka

Kyōto Station opened on 5 February 1877 as the eastward extension of the Kobe–Osaka railway; the Satsuma Rebellion broke out at about the same time, and the station was immediately pressed into service for military transport. The line was extended to Ōtsu in 1880 via a route south through what is today the Nara Line. The Nara Railway joined in 1895 and the Kyoto Railway, predecessor of the San'in Main Line, in 1897. The Tōkaidō realignment of 1 August 1921 through the new Higashiyama and Shin-Ōsakayama tunnels brought the through-traffic pattern still in use today, and in 1928 the Kintetsu Kyoto Line opened along the old Nara Line right of way. The Shinkansen platforms, which overhang Hachijō-dōri, opened in 1964 alongside the existing station after a 1960 decision. The fourth-generation 15-storey station building designed by Hiroshi Hara opened in 1997.

The 1997 station building, the fourth on the site and designed by Hiroshi Hara, is Japan's second-largest station building after Nagoya Station, gathering a shopping mall, a hotel, a cinema, an Isetan department store and several local government facilities under one 15-storey roof.