Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau

[1] The city government launched separate network of streetcars of 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge in 1912, which absorbed the lines of Kyoto Electric Railway in 1918.

[3] In its peak of the 1960s, the network was as follows:[3] Because of increasing congestion of road traffic, the tram was abolished in 1978.

One of the cars transferred to Hankai Tramway is now preserved at Old Pueblo Trolley in Tucson, Arizona.

[3] The bureau has had events that promote increased ridership of their transit system.

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Kyoto City Bus in front of Kyoto Station
Kyoto City Tram in 1978
Map of the Kyoto City Tram network (circa 1955)