Tōfukuji Station (東福寺駅, Tōfukuji-eki) is a railway station located in Higashiyama-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It serves both the Keihan Main Line and the JR WestNara Line, with passengers able to transfer directly between services. It has the Keihan station number "KH36", and the JR West station number "JR-D02".
The station is at ground level. The Keihan and JR sections have two side platforms each. The Demachiyanagi-bound platform for Keihan tracks and the Nara-bound platform for JR tracks are on the same structure, but are separated by a wall. On November 6, 2011, ticket gates for transferring between services were opened between these platforms, which can be used from 7am until 7pm. Outside of these hours, passengers must walk on a bridge between the platforms.[2]
The Keihan station was used by 14,442 passengers per day and the JR West station was used by 16,055 passengers per day in fiscal year 2012.[1]
According to the Kyoto City statistics and Kyoto Prefecture statistics, the average number of passengers per day is as follows.[citation needed]
year
Keihan Line
JR Nara Line
2004
6,455
5,526
2005
6,592
5,805
2006
6,216
6,178
2007
6,170
6,433
2008
7,164
6,660
2009
7,211
6,882
2010
7,282
7,222
2011
6,934
7,538
2012
7,403
8,027
2013
7,907
8,433
2014
8,644
8,899
2015
9,366
9,541
2016
7,625
9,627
History
The station opened on 15 April 1910, when operation on the Keihan Main Line began. The station initially only served Keihan trains; the track of the Nara Line, then operated by JNR, ran next to the station, and a JNR station was not built until 27 December 1957.[3] At the time, the Nara Line was single-tracked, and the JNR station had only one platform. A passing loop and a second platform was completed in July 1994. This section of the Nara Line was double-tracked in March 2001.[4]
Station numbering was introduced to the JR West station in March 2018 with Tōfukuji being assigned station number JR-D02.[5][6]
^"近畿エリアの12路線 のべ300駅に「駅ナンバー」を導入します！" ["Station numbers" will be introduced at a total of 300 stations on 12 lines in the Kinki area!]. westjr.co.jp (in Japanese). 20 July 2016. Archived from the original on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
^"「駅ナンバー」一覧表" ["Station number" list] (PDF). westjr.co.jp (in Japanese). 20 July 2016. Archived from the original(PDF) on 16 November 2022. Retrieved 30 December 2022.
