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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 123 train stations
Best train stations in Kyoto
The 10 most notable train stations 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
地下鉄京都駅
京都市下京区東塩小路町地先 市営地下鉄京都駅構内
100 m from Kyoto Municipal Subway Kyōto Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.572, percentile 100 of 123
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2
松井山手駅
山手中央70
36 m from Matsuiyamate Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.563, percentile 99.18 of 123
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3
四条駅 (Shijō Sta.) (K09)
下京区二帖半敷町
112 m from Shijō Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.549, percentile 98.36 of 123
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4
烏丸線 烏丸御池駅 (Karasuma Oike Sta.) (K08)
中京区虎屋町
85 m from Karasuma Oike Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.534, percentile 97.54 of 123
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5
叡山電車 出町柳駅
367
124 m from Demachiyanagi Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.526, percentile 96.72 of 123
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6
鞍馬口駅 (Kuramaguchi Sta.) (K05)
上京区上御霊中町
17 m from Kuramaguchi Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.517, percentile 95.9 of 123
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7
桂駅 (Katsura Sta.) (HK81)
西京区川島北裏町97-2
56 m from Katsura Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.410, percentile 95.08 of 123
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8
御陵駅
山科区御陵原西町
25 m from Misasagi Station, metro
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.388, percentile 94.26 of 123
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9
阪急 嵐山駅 (Hankyu Arashiyama Sta.) (HK98)
西京区嵐山東一川町3-1
17 m from Arashiyama Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 2.377, percentile 93.44 of 123
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10
京都市交通局四条駅・阪急烏丸駅
京都市
46 m from Karasuma Station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.309, percentile 92.62 of 123
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).