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Best travel and transportation in Kyoto

The 10 most notable travel and transportation 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.

  1. 1

    帝産観光バス株式会社京都支店

    神足堂ケ園1-1

    469 m from Nagaokakyō Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.711, percentile 100 of 81

  2. 2

    京都市交通局地下鉄六地蔵駅

    六地蔵奈良町

    40 m from Rokujizou Station (JR West), rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.694, percentile 98.75 of 81

  3. 3

    梅小路京都西駅 1番のりば

    下京区観喜寺町3

    28 m from Umekōji-Kyōtonishi Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 1.665, percentile 97.5 of 81

  4. 4

    京阪バス

    南区東九条南石田町5

    82 m from Jūjō Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.652, percentile 96.25 of 81

  5. 5

    京都市交通局横大路営業所

    伏見区横大路橋本24-1

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.620, percentile 95 of 81

  6. 6

    嵐電 西院車庫

    Mibufuchidacho, 18 京福電鉄鉄道部 西院事業部

    157 m from Saiin Station, rail

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.618, percentile 93.75 of 81

  7. 7

    十条駅 (Jujo Sta.)(K13)

    南区東九条南石田町

    4 m from Jūjō Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.98 · rank score 1.607, percentile 92.5 of 81

  8. 8

    京都バス

    1-1 Sagamyojocho

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 1.506, percentile 91.25 of 81

  9. 9

    京都市役所交通局梅津営業所

    右京区西院笠目町9-15

    794 m from Uzumasa Tenjingawa Station, metro

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.468, percentile 90 of 81

  10. 10

    ヤマト運輸 京都ベース

    8-9

    listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.96 · rank score 1.460, percentile 88.75 of 81

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).