Timetable information
Weekday departures: 316/day · Sat & holiday departures: 301/day
First / last departure (weekday): 5:31 / 23:58
Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (22)
0:00 ─ 23:00
Figures are typical departures in the timetable data, not a live service count.
Timetable data as of 3 May 2026.
Adjacent stations
- Tozai Line: Kyoto Shiyakusho-mae ⇄ Higashiyama (Kyoto)
Location
History
Sanjō Keihan Station opened on 12 October 1997 with the initial Daigo–Nijō section of the Kyoto Municipal Subway Tōzai Line, in Higashiyama Ward, Kyōto. It links via an off-fare underground concourse to the Keihan Main and Ōtō Lines' Sanjō Station, and effectively replaced the former Keishin-Sanjō Station of the abandoned Keihan Keishin Line. Because the surrounding streets left no room for turnback tracks, Keishin Line through-trains were initially extended to Kyōto Shiyakusho-mae rather than turning back here, with the 2008 extension routing some services through to Uzumasa Tenjingawa. IC card travel using PiTaPa began on 1 April 2007, and the ticket gates became unstaffed on 1 November 2022.
Notes
The name predates the subway — local bus stops and the wider district had long used Sanjō Keihan, a corruption of the older Sanjō-dōri Keihan-mae for the area in front of Keihan's Sanjō Station.
Sources
- Wikipedia (日本語) (opens in a new tab)
- Photo: Cheng-en Cheng from Taichung City, Taiwan · CC BY-SA 2.0 (opens in a new tab) · Wikimedia Commons (opens in a new tab)
Last updated: 2026-05-18