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Kintetsu Kyoto Line
Limited Express train
Gauge:	1435 mm
Voltage:	1500 =
Legend Lines of Kintetsu unless noted JR West lines 0.0 Kyoto JR Central Tōkaidō Shinkansen 0.9 Tōji Subway: Kujō 1.5 Jūjō Subway: Jūjō 2.5 Kamitobaguchi Kamo River Subway: Kuinabashi Kyoto Municipal Subway Karasuma Line 3.6 Takeda 4.9 Fushimi Keihan Railway Keihan Main Line to Demachiyanagi 6.0 Kintetsu Tambabashi Keihan: Tambabashi 6.5 Momoyamagoryōmae Keihan: Fushimi Momoyama Keihan Railway Uji Line Uji River 8.6 Mukaijima 11.4 Ogura 12.7 Iseda 13.6 Ōkubo 14.6 Kutsukawa 15.9 Terada 17.4 Tonoshō Kizu River Kizugawa abandoned in 1974 Katamachi Line (Gakkentoshi Line) to Kyōbashi 19.6 Shin-Tanabe JR: Kyōtanabe 21.1 Kōdo JR: Dōshisha-mae 22.4 Miyamaki JR: JR Miyamaki 23.1 Kintetsu Miyazu 24.4 Komada JR: Shimokoma 26.7 Shin-Hōsono JR: Hōsono 28.2 Kizugawadai to Kizu 29.2 Yamadagawa Kyoto/Nara border 30.8 Takanohara 33.5 Heijō Nara Line to Namba 34.6 Yamato-Saidaiji Nara Line through to Kintetsu Nara Kashihara Line through to Kashihara­jingū-mae

The Kyoto Line (京都線, Kyōto-sen^?) of Kintetsu Corporation is a railway line connecting cities of Kyoto, Uji and Nara. The line competes with the Nara Line of West Japan Railway Company which also connects those cities.

Many trains on the line continue to the Nara Line to Kintetsu Nara or the Kashihara Line via Yamato-Saidaiji Station. The line also provides the through train services with the Karasuma Line of Kyoto Municipal Subway.

History

The Kyoto Line was built by Nara Electric Railway (奈良電気鉄道, Nara Denki Tetsudō^?) in 1928. The track between Kyoto Station and Horiuchi Station (present-day Kintetsu-Tambabashi Station) was placed on the site of a removed railway, which had been rerouted and is now called the JR Nara Line.

The railway provided the through services to the lines of Kintetsu (originally, Osaka Electric Tramway) from the beginning and was merged into Kintetsu in 1963. Between 1945 and 1968, there were through services with the Keihan Main Line using crossovers at Tambabashi. In 1988, the through services with the Karasuma Line was introduced.

Stations

• S: All trains stop
• M: Only express trains operated from Kyoto to Kintetsu Miyazu stop
• X: Only down (southbound) trains which depart from Kyoto at or after 7:00 p.m. stop
• |: Trains pass
• Local trains (普通) stop at every station between Kyoto and Yamato-Saidaiji.
• SE: Semi-Express 準急
• Ex: Express 急行
• LE: Limited Express特急

Trains down to

• Express: Nara, Tenri, Kashihara­jingū-mae
• Limited Express: Nara, Kashihara jingū-mae, Kashikojima

Statistics

• Distance: 34.6 km