Umekoji-Kyotonishi

Weekday departures: 131/day · Sat & holiday departures: 131/day

First / last departure (weekday): 5:24 / 23:48

Busiest hour: 8:00–9:00 (9)

0:00 ─ 23:00

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

Timetable data as of 2 May 2026.

• San'in Main Line: Tambaguchi ⇄ Kyoto

Umekōji-Kyōtonishi Station opened on 16 March 2019 on the Sagano Line (San'in Main Line) of JR West, in Shimogyō Ward, Kyoto, primarily to serve the Umekōji Park complex (Kyoto Railway Museum and Kyoto Aquarium). The station was the first new station on the San'in Main Line in eleven years, since Kajikurigōdaichi in 2008. In May 2014 the Kyoto Chamber of Commerce proposed a new station between Kyoto and Tanbaguchi, and the city government took up the idea that August; visitor numbers rose further when the Umekōji Steam Locomotive Museum reopened as the enlarged Kyoto Railway Museum on 29 April 2016. A 2 February 2015 mutual-consensus agreement set total cost at ¥4.9 billion with JR West paying ¥1.9 billion, the city ¥1.5 billion, and the remainder coming from national subsidy. Ground-breaking was on 19 September 2016 and the station name (chosen in place of the working name 'JR Shichijō') was finalised on 20 July 2018 after a public-name solicitation gathered 1,257 suggestions. The station is also the first on the Sagano Line equipped with platform-screen doors. Station code is JR-E02.

The station name fuses 'Umekōji', the park name that drew 836 of 1,257 name-suggestions, with 'Kyōtonishi' meaning 'Kyoto West', acknowledging the location 1.7 km west of Kyoto Station. In fiscal 2023, the station averaged 7,570 daily users.