Tōfukuji Station (東福寺駅, Tōfukuji-eki) is a railway station located in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It has the Keihan station number "KH36", and the JR West station number "JR-D02".

Tōfukuji Station 東福寺駅
The entrance gate of Tōfukuji Station in January 2013
General information
Location	224, Honmachi 12-chōme, Higashiyama, Kyoto (京都市東山区本町十二丁目224) Kyoto Prefecture Japan
Coordinates	34°58′52.34″N 135°46′12.65″E
Operated by	Keihan Railway JR West
Line(s)	Keihan Main Line Nara Line
Connections	Bus stop
History
Opened	April 15, 1910
Passengers
FY2015[1]	6.8 million (Keihan) 7.0 million (JR West)
Location
Tōfukuji Station Location within Japan

Lines

• Keihan Electric Railway
  • Keihan Main Line
• West Japan Railway Company
  • Nara Line

Layout

The station is located on the ground level. The Keihan and JR sections have two side platforms each. The Demachiyanagi-bound platform of the Keihan station and the Nara-bound one of the JR station are on the same structure, but were separated by a wall. On November 6, 2011, the transfer ticket gates were located between those platforms and the gates are open from 7am until 7pm. Outside of these hours, passengers must walk on a bridge between the platforms.[2]

Keihan Railway

JR West

Passenger statistics

The Keihan station was used by 14,442 passengers per day in 2012. The JR West station was used by 16,055 passengers per day in fiscal 2012.[1] According to the Kyoto City statistics and Kyoto Prefecture statistics, the average number of passengers per day is as follows.^{[citation needed]}

History

The station opened on April 15, 1910, when the operation of the Keihan Main Line started. The track of the Nara Line (originally the old route of the Tōkaidō Main Line) ran next to the station, but the station on the JNR line was not made until December 27, 1957.[3] The Nara Line station on the single track line had only one platform and no passing loop until the second platform was completed in July 1994. The Nara Line was double-tracked in March 2001.[4]

Adjacent stations

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Tofukuji Station.

• JR West station information (in Japanese)
• Keihan station information (in Japanese)