Karasuma Line


The Karasuma Line is one of the two lines of the Kyoto Municipal Subway operated by Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau in Kyoto, 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 Fushimi-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 Kyoto Station and the Hankyu Kyoto Line running beneath Shijō Street at the intersection of Shijō Karasuma, Kyoto's central business district. At Shijō Karasuma, the subway station is named, whereas Hankyu's station is called.
The Transportation Bureau and Kintetsu Railway jointly operate through services, which connect the Karasuma Line with the Kintetsu Kyoto Line to Kintetsu Nara Station in Nara. 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

Rolling stock

Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau

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 Oike Street. The line was extended from to on June 3, 1997. Express services from to in Nara started on March 15, 2000.