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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 34 public transit
Best public transit in Kyoto
The 10 most notable public transit in Kyoto, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
西賀茂車庫前バス停
北区西賀茂山ノ森町
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.790, percentile 100 of 34
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2
北大路バスターミナル
北区小山北上総町49-1
101 m from Kitaōji Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.748, percentile 96.97 of 34
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3
横大路車庫前 バス停
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.648, percentile 93.94 of 34
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4
熊野神社前バス停
左京区東丸太町
591 m from Jingū-Marutamachi Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.95 · rank score 1.423, percentile 90.91 of 34
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5
知恩院前バス停
東山区松原町
343 m from Higashiyama-Sanjō Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.380, percentile 87.88 of 34
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6
千本中立売バス停
上京区 亀屋町・西中筋町
647 m from Kitano Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.367, percentile 84.85 of 34
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7
京都市交通局九条営業所
東九条下殿田町
302 m from Tōji Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.94 · rank score 1.333, percentile 81.82 of 34
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8
西大路四条バス停
右京区西院東淳和院町
55 m from Saiin Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.91 · rank score 1.138, percentile 78.79 of 34
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9
石清水八幡宮駅 バスロータリー
八幡高坊
101 m from Iwashimizu-hachimangū Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.019, percentile 75.76 of 34
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10
四条大宮 バス停 市バス6のりば
中京区錦大宮町116
25 m from Ōmiya Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and an address · Overture confidence 0.93 · rank score 1.004, percentile 72.73 of 34
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).