Okubo (Kyoto)

Weekday departures: 145/day in the available timetable data · Sat & holiday departures: 136/day in the available timetable data

Earliest / latest departure in the available data (weekday): 5:35 / 23:59

Busiest hour in the available data: 9:00–10:00 (11)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

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 incomplete:

• Kyoto Subway - Kintetsu Kyoto Line: one direction only

• Kyoto Subway - Kintetsu Kyoto Line: Iseda ⇄ Kutsukawa

Ōkubo Station opened on 3 November 1928 when the Nara Electric Railway inaugurated its Momoyamagoryōmae–Saidaiji (now Yamato-Saidaiji) section, at Hirono-chō Nishiura, Uji, Kyoto, as a ground-level station with two opposed side platforms. It passed to Kintetsu through corporate merger on 1 October 1963, becoming part of the Kintetsu Kyoto Line. Elevation works began on 20 September 1984 to remove the level crossings on Kyoto Prefectural Route 15 (Uji–Yodo), where chronic congestion had developed; the down line was elevated on 15 October 1987 and the up line on 22 October 1987, at which time the station was relocated about 130 metres toward Kyoto and converted into a two-island, four-track layout for passing operations. PiTaPa IC cards came into use on 1 April 2007, and barrier-free improvements including an accessible toilet were completed on 7 June 2020.

Ōkubo is the third-busiest intermediate station on the Kintetsu Kyoto Line, behind Kintetsu Tambabashi and Takanohara. It is one of the line's passing stations for express trains, so timetables routinely have express and lower-class trains stepping aside for limited-express services, and expresses making timed connections with semi-express and local trains. Between Ōkubo and Kyoto, none of the other passing-capable stations (Mukaijima, Kamitobaguchi) stop the express, so on this stretch the express is not overtaken by a limited express and reaches Kyoto first.