The is one of the two lines of the Kyoto Municipal Subway operated by

Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau is an agency of the city government of Kyoto, Japan that operates municipal subways and city buses within the city. Previously, it also operated trams and trolley buses. Subway The Kyoto Municipal Subway operates the following two lines: *Kara ...

Kyoto Kyoto ( or ; Japanese language, Japanese: , ''Kyōto'' ), officially , is the capital city of Kyoto Prefecture in the Kansai region of Japan's largest and most populous island of Honshu. , the city had a population of 1.46 million, making it t ...

, Japan. On maps, diagrams and signboards, the line is colored green, and its stations are given numbers following the letter "K". It serves seven of Kyoto's eleven wards: Sakyō-ku, Kita-ku, Kamigyō-ku, Nakagyō-ku, Shimogyō-ku, Minami-ku, and Fushimi-ku. It connects in Sakyō-ku and in Minami-ku. Between and , trains run beneath the north–south Karasuma Street, hence the name. They link to the other subway line, the Tozai Line, at . They also connect to the JR lines at

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and the Hankyu Kyoto Line running beneath

Shijō Street runs in the center of Kyoto, Japan from east to west through the commercial center of the city. Shijō literally means ''Fourth Avenue'' of Heian-kyō, the ancient capital. History The section between Shinkyōgoku street and the vicini ...

at the intersection of Shijō Karasuma, Kyoto's

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. At Shijō Karasuma, the subway station is named , whereas Hankyu's station is called . The Transportation Bureau and

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jointly operate through services, which continue to the Kintetsu Kyoto Line to Kintetsu Nara Station in

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. The Karasuma Line and the Kyoto Line connect at Kyoto and Takeda. This line covers a total distance of in 26 minutes and the average daily ridership in 2009 was 411,881 passengers.

Stations

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Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau

* 10 series * 20 series File:Kyoto City 10 series EMU late type 002.JPG, A 10 series (6th batch) EMU on an express service bound for Kokusaikaikan File:Kyoto subway 20 series unit 31 20220506 Takeda.jpg, Kyoto subway 20 series unit 31 at Takeda station

Kintetsu Railway Co., Ltd.

* Kintetsu 3200 series * Kintetsu 3220 series File:Kintetsu-3200 001 JPN.JPG, Kintetsu 3200 series train File:Kintetsu-3220 001 JPN.JPG, Kintetsu 3220 series train

History

The section between and was completed on May 29, 1981. The line was extended from to on June 11, 1988. Through services from to on the Kyoto Line started on August 28, 1988. The line was extended from to on October 24, 1990. Oike Station was renamed Karasuma Oike Station on May 22, 1997, prior to the inauguration of the Tōzai Line running beneath the east–west . The line was extended from to on June 3, 1997. Express services from to in

started on March 15, 2000.

References

*This article was translated from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia, retrieved on July 4, 2009.

External links

Public transport in Kyoto
(Kyoto City Web) {{Osaka transit Kyoto Municipal Subway Standard-gauge railways in Japan Railway lines opened in 1981 1981 establishments in Japan 1500 V DC railway electrification