page_title: Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau
section_title: Tram
hierarchical_section_title: Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau / Tram
caption_attribution_description: 日本語: 京都市電
context_page_description: Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau is an agency of the city government of Kyoto, Japan that operates municipal subways and city buses within the city. Previously, it also operated trams and trolley buses.
context_section_description: Kyoto Municipal Transportation Bureau operated the Kyoto City Tram (京都市電 Kyōto Shiden) until 1978.
  Kyoto Electric Railway (1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) narrow gauge) opened in 1895 as the first electric streetcar in Japan in commercial operation. 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. Subsequently, the narrow gauge lines were closed, rebuilt in standard gauge, or remained as is (Kitano Line).
  In its peak of the 1960s, the network was as follows:
  Loop line
  Gaishū Line (Loop on Higashiyama, Kujō, Nishiōji, Kitaōji streets)
  East-West lines
  Imadegawa Line
  Marutamachi Line
  Shijō Line
  Shichijō Line
  North-South lines
  Senbon Line
  Karasuma Line
  Kawaramachi Line
  Shirakawa Line
  Fushimi Line
  Kitano Line (narrow gauge, closed in 1961)
  Because of increasing congestion of road traffic, the tram was abolished in 1978. Part of disused cars were sold to other cities in Japan. As of 2010, Hiroshima Electric Railway and Iyo Railway still operate ex-Kyoto tram cars. One of the cars transferred to Hankai Tramway is now preserved at Old Pueblo Trolley in Tucson, Arizona.
caption: Kyoto City Tram, 1978
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