Firstly, there is the relatively recent addition of a station at the terminus of the Subway Tozai Line that runs from Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station in Kyoto down to the southeastern part of the city. Secondly, in proximity to the municipal subway station is the station operated by West Japan Railway Company, on the Nara Line. Rapid trains from Kyoto now also stop here and the trip normally takes no longer than 12 minutes. Finally, approximately 150 meters from both the subway and JR stations is the Rokujizo station operated by the Keihan Electric Railway.
Overview
Keihan Station on the west side across the Yamashina River is located in Fushimi-ku, Kyoto City, and JR and subway stations on the east Side are located in Uji City and are divided into two cities. When the station was opened in 1913, the station was named "Rokujizo-san" because Daizenji, which is also one of the Kyoto Rokujizo in the west-northwest of the Sta., has been popular since ancient times. It was a single station of Keihan Long, in 1992, the JR station was established in the Uji City side, and the subway station was opened in 2004, and the Keihan Uji line, the Nara Line of JR West, and the railway station on the Tozai line of the subway have the same name. The subway is the only subway station located outside Kyoto. JR and subway stations are almost the same position as the ground and underground, but the Keihan station is about 400m southwest, and the two stations are contacted via a public road along the Yamashina River. The JR West station is "ICOCA", and the Keihan and subway stations are included in the use area of "PiTaPa" and "Slussen and Kansai". In addition, the subway station also supports "Traffica Kyoto card".
Layout
Keihan Railway
In the ground station with two-sided relative formula home 2, effective length is five-car train respectively. The home is located in the middle of a curved alignment. There is one ticket gate on the first floor, a platform on the second floor, and a waiting room with air-conditioning is installed only for home to the Middle Island. In addition to the stairs, there is a wheelchair-accessible elevator between the wicket floor and the home floor, and there are barrier-free facilities such as a multi-purpose toilet for ostomate is installed in the restroom of the ticket floor. There is a bus terminal in front of the station. From 1998 to the following year, it was also a stop station of had been operating as a seasonal train of direct Keihan Main line.
JR West
The ticket gate is only one place, and an elevated station on the two-sided island-type home that can be passing the train. There is a place where the gap of the train and the home is comparatively wide vacant because it is on the curve, and the home to which each station stop to the NARA station stops at the station is exchanged during the day, and the comb-like rubber is installed as this measures. Rubber has the strength that can support the weight of the passenger, it is said that there is no safety problem even when the rubber and the vehicle in contact. In addition, by moving the station to the gradual Kyoto direction of the curve in accordance with the track business of Nara Line starting from fy2013, measures to reduce the gap between the train and home to widen the home is made.
An underground station with two lines on one side of the island home. The home door is installed. Only one ticket gate. The station color of the Tozai line has been enacted for each station, and the station color of the WASURENAGUSA is a color. In addition, the station number of "T01" has been granted. In the Rokujizo station of Keihan, the ticket of the Kyoto TSU line which is the same Keihan is not released, but the Rokujizo station of the subway has released the contact ticket via Misasagi station.
History
The oldest railway in this area is the Nara Line which has been operating since 1896, but the history of Rokujizō Station began with the opening of the Keihan line in 1913 because the Nara Line did not have its station in Rokujizō until 1992. The Keihan station opened on 1 June 1913. The present-day JR West station opened on 22 October 1992, and the subway station opened on 26 November 2004.
Usage information
The transition of the number of users is as follows. What is written here is the number of people who took the train.
Year
Keihan
JR West
Kyoto Subway
1999
5,486
5,270
Not opened
2000
5,373
5,342
Not opened
2001
5,263
5,795
Not opened
2002
4,907
6,126
Not opened
2003
4,770
6,374
Not opened
2004
4,603
6,416
5,508
2005
4,616
6,523
5,632
2006
4,578
6,647
5,683
2007
4,536
6,706
5,742
2008
4,521
6,822
5,775
2009
4,540
6,789
5,816
2010
4,458
6,945
5,837
2011
4,503
7,232
5,929
2012
4,685
7,394
6,042
2013
4,605
7,658
6,222
2014
4,904
7,581
6,387
2015
5,087
7,751
6,597
2016
4,066
7,638
6,683
Surrounding area
The surrounding area has a number of hotels, extensive shops, restaurants and amusement centers. It has undergone significant development in recent years as more people choose to live there or nearby and make use of the excellent transport links to Kyoto and Osaka.
