Keihan Main Line

Keihan Main Line

Legend Nakanoshima Watanabebashi Osaka Subway: Yotsubashi Line(Higobashi) Nakanoshima Line Ōebashi Osaka Subway: Midōsuji Line 0.0 Yodoyabashi Naniwabashi Osaka Subway: Sakaisuji Line 0.5 Kitahama Higashi Yokobori River Tosabori River Keihan Line/Nakanoshima Line 1.3 Temmabashi Osaka Subway: Tanimachi Line (former) Temmabashi Neya River Kyōbashi (first) abandoned in 1910 JR West: JR Tōzai Line Osaka Subway: Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line Katamachi abandoned in 1969 3.0 Kyōbashi JR-W: Osaka Loop Line Kyobashi (former: Gamo) moved to the new line in 1969 JR-W: Katamachi Line (Gakkentoshi Line) Gamo Signal Box abandoned in 1970 Osaka Subway: Nagahori Tsurumi-ryokuchi Line JR-W: Osaka Higashi Line (Opening in spring 2012) 4.6 Noe Osaka Subway: Imazatosuji Line 5.3 Sekime/ Sekime-Seiiku 6.2 Morishōji 6.8 Sembayashi 7.2 Takii Osaka Subway: Imazatosuji Line 7.6 Doi 8.3 Moriguchishi Moriguchi Depot and Workshop abandoned in 1972 9.4 Nishisansō Kadoma abandoned in 1975 Osaka Monorail 10.1 Kadoma-shi 10.8 Furukawabashi 12.0 Ōwada 12.8 Kayashima Neyagawa Depot and Workshop Neyagawa Signal Box 15.0 Neyagawashi Toyono abandoned in 1963 17.6 Korien 19.1 Kozenji 20.8 Hirakata-koen 21.8 Hirakatashi Katano Line 23.4 Goten-yama 25.5 Makino 27.7 Kuzuha Osaka/Kyoto 30.1 Hashimoto 31.8 Yawatashi Otokoyama Cable Line Kizu River Uji River Yodo Depot 35.0 Yodo Kyoto Tram: Fushimi Line 39.7 Chūshojima Uji Line 40.6 Fushimi-Momoyama Momoyamagoryōmae bypass tracks removed 41.3 Tambabashi Kintetsu Tambabashi bypass tracks removed Kintetsu: Kyōto Line 42.3 Sumizome 43.3 Fujinomori 44.1 Fukakusa Fukakusa Depot Kyōto Tram: Inari Line 44.6 Fushimi Inari 45.2 Tobakaidō JR-W: Nara Line Kyōto Tram: Kujō Line 46.1 Tōfukuji JR Central: Tōkaidō Shinkansen JR-W: Tōkaidō Main Line Shiokōji closed in 1918, abandoned in 1955 47.0 Shichijō Kyōto Tram: Shichijō Line Daibutsu-mae abandoned in 1913 47.7 Kiyomizu-Gojō Hankyū:Kyoto Main Line 48.6 Gion-Shijō Kamo River/ Kawaramachi Kyōto Tram: Shijō Line Keihan Line/Keishin Line 49.3 Sanjō Keishin-Sanjō Kyoto Subway: Tōzai Line (Sanjō Keihan) Ōtō Line 50.3 Jingū-Marutamachi 51.6 Demachiyanagi Eizan Railway Eizan Main Line

Keihan 8000-series limited express (New color)

Keihan 3000-series express (January 2009)

Keihan 8000-series (November 2005, advertising "Yoshitsune")

Keihan 8000-series K-limited express (August 8, 2007, passing Yawatashi Station)

The Keihan Main Line (京阪本線, Keihan-honsen^?) is a railway line of Keihan Electric Railway. The line is between Sanjō Station in Kyoto and Yodoyabashi Station in Osaka. The name of the line is not "the Main Line", but "the Keihan Main Line". There are through services to the Ōtō Line and the Nakanoshima Line. In operation, trains from Kyoto to Osaka are treated as "down" trains, and from Osaka to Kyoto as "up" trains.

Statistics

• Gauge: 1435 mm
• Distance: 49.3 km
• Maximum speed：110 km/h
• Electrification: 1500 V DC
• Double track
  • Double track: Yodoyabashi - Temmabashi, Neyagawa Signal Box - Sanjo
  • 4 tracks: Temmabashi - Neyagawa Signal Box

Train service

Rapid Limited Express (快速特急, Kaisoku Tokkyū^?) (RLE) - "up" trains only

Trains are operated from Yodoyabashi to Demachiyanagi in the evening on weekdays.

Limited Express (特急, Tokkyū^?) (LE)

Trains are operated between Yodoyabashi and Demachiyanagi, and between Yodoyabashi and Hirakatashi in both directions. Extra trains are operated from Yodo to Yodoyabashi on the days of horse racing at Kyoto Racecourse as one of the ways to take passengers from the racecourse to Osaka.

Commuter Rapid Express (通勤快急, Tsūkin Kaikyū^?) (CRE) - "down" trains only

Trains are operated from Demachiyanagi or Kisaichi (Orihime) to Nakanoshima in the morning on weekdays and pass Moriguchishi.

Rapid Express (快速急行, Kaisoku Kyūkō^?) (RE)

Trains are operated between Nakanoshima and Demachiyanagi in both directions, and stop at Yodo from the morning until the evening on the days of horse racing at Kyoto Racecourse.

Rapid Express "Hikoboshi" trains are operated from Nakanoshima to Kisaichi at night on weekdays.

Midnight Express (深夜急行, Shinya Kyūkō^?) (ME) - "up" trains only

A train departs from Yodoyabashi for Kuzuha at 0:20 a.m. and passes Moriguchishi and Hirakata-kōen.

Express (急行, Kyūkō^?) (Ex)

Trains are operated in the early morning and midnight every day. Trains are also operated between Yodo and Demachiyanagi. Extra trains are operated from Yodo to Nakanoshima on the days of horse racing at Kyoto Racecourse as one of the ways to take passengers from the racecourse to Osaka.

Commuter Sub Express (通勤準急, Tsūkin Junkyū^?) (CSbE) - "down" trains only

Trains are operated from Demachiyanagi, Kuzuha, Hirakatashi to Yodoyabashi or Nakanoshima in the morning and pass Moriguchishi.

Sub Express (準急, Junkyū^?) (SbE)

Sometimes operated to Nakanoshima in the morning on weekdays.

Semi-Express (区間急行, Kukan Kyūkō^?) (SmE)

Trains are operated between Nakanoshima and Kuzuha at longest. Mainly arrive at and depart from Nakanoshima every day, sometimes at Yodoyabashi in the rush hour on weekdays.

Local (普通, Futsū^?)

Trains stop at all stations. Trains run on the Nakanoshima Line every morning and every night.

Stations

• S: Trains stop.
• s: limited stop
• W: Westbound (down) trains stop.
• E: Eastbound (up) trains stop.
• |,↑ (down trains), ↓ (up trains): Trains pass.
• ↑ (down trains), ↓ (up trains): Only one direction.
• ∥: Not running
• (M): Stations using music composed by Minoru Mukaiya (向谷 実^?, a musician and a keyboardist) in the announcement of the departures of trains.
• For train abbreviations, see above.