Matsugasaki Station (Kyoto)

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Matsugasaki Station
松ヶ崎駅
File:Kyoto subway Matsugasaki stn exit 2.jpg
Matsugasaki Station
Location Matsugasaki Rokunotsubo-cho, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Kyoto
（京都府京都市左京区松ヶ崎六ノ坪町）
Japan
Coordinates Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
Operated by Kyoto Municipal Subway
Line(s) Karasuma Line
Connections <templatestyles src="Plainlist/styles.css"/>
  • Bus stop
Other information
Station code K02
History
Opened 1997
Traffic
Passengers (2012) 11,102[1] daily

Matsugasaki Station (松ヶ崎駅 Matsugasaki-eki?) is a train station on the Kyoto Municipal Subway Karasuma Line in Sakyo-ku, Kyoto, Japan.

Layout

The station locates underneath Kitayama dori street, all station structures except stairs are underground.[2] The station has two floors, the upper one is the station office and ticket gates and lower one is an island platform with two tracks.[2] The station has two stairs to access outside, the first stairs are on East side and the second is in West.[2] East one is with escalators while West is with a lift. West one is with bicycle parking lots.[3]

  • Pictures of Matsugasaki station
  • Matsugasaki No1 Entrance.JPG

    First stairs

  • Matsugasaki Station concourse outside.JPG

    Concourse outside ticket gates

  • Matsugasaki Station ticket gate outside.JPG

    Ticket gates
    IC cards can be used[4]。

  • Matsugasaki Station concourse inside.JPG

    Concourse inside ticket gates

  • Matsugasaki Station truck No2.JPG

    Platforms

  • Matsugasaki Station East end 01.JPG

    Each end of platforms equivalent to one train carriages is not used.

  • Matsugasaki Station running in board.JPG

    Running in board
    Advertisement plate is added underneath the board from April 2010[5]。

Tracks

1 ■Karasuma Line To Shijo, Kyoto, Takeda and Nara
2 ■Karasuma Line To Kokusaikaikan

Destination of platforms are in accordance with the Kyoto city web cite[6]

Around the station

The station locates underneath Kitayama dori. Sugakuin Station of Eizan Electric Railway locates 800 m east from Matsugasaki Station. Myō/Hō (妙・法), the characters meaning "wondrous dharma" (referring to Buddhist teachings) of Gozan no Okuribi are held at the north of the station on 16 August every year.[7][8]。

It is recorded that farmers having paddy ground started living in Matsugasaki in late 8th century and the name of Matsugasaki are found in the Yugiri waley, Evening Mistof The Tale of Genji.[9] Even though the area flourished for over one thousand years, population of the area had remained the same between 9th and 19th centuries because strict local rule existed.[10] The original route of Eizan Electric Railway planned in 1922 was from Kitaoji to Nikendyaya via Matsugasaki, the route was changed before actual construction was commenced.[11] From the end of Taisho era, Matsugasaki area has utilized as residential area and the movement is accelerated the opening of Kitayama dori street in 1985 and construction of subway Karasuma line.[10][12][13]。

Bus stops

Matsugasaki Station bus stop (adjacent to exit 1)

  • Kyoto City Bus[14][15]
    • Route 4: To Kamigamo Shrine / Kyoto Station
    • Route North 8(北8): To Senbon Kitaoji / Kitaoji Bus Terminal
  • Kyoto Bus
    • No number: To Takano Depot / Iwakura Muramatsu

Matsugasaki Kaijiri Cho bus stop [16][17]

  • Kyoto City Bus
    • Route 65: To Shijo Karasuma / Iwakura Depot
    • Route North 8(北8): To Senbon Kitaoji / Kitaoji Bus Terminal
  • Kyoto Bus
    • Rounte 56: To Demachiyanagi station
    • No number: To Takano Depot / Iwakura Muramatsu

Adjacent stations

« Service »
Kyoto Municipal Subway Karasuma Line (K02)
Kokusaikaikan (K01) All stations Kitayama (K03)

References

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  7. ↑ 『松ヶ崎』p40
  8. ↑ 『松ヶ崎』p41
  9. ↑ 『松ヶ崎』p12
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 『松ヶ崎』p50
  11. ↑ 田中ほか1999 p12
  12. ↑ 『松ヶ崎』p36
  13. ↑ 『松ヶ崎』p37
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Bibliography

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