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Nishioji Railway Station

Nishiōji Station is a railway station located in , , . It serves the JR Kyoto Line of West Japan Railway Company. The distances to major stations are 2.5 km to Kyoto Station, 40.3 km to Osaka Station and 516.1 km to .
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  • Type: Railway stop
  • Description: railway station in Kyoto, Kyoto prefecture, Japan
  • Also known as: “Nishioji” and “Nishiōji Station”
  • Wheelchair access: no

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Karahashi Saiji Park and East Temple.

Park
Photo: Saigen Jiro, CC0.
Sai-ji or the West Temple was a Buddhist temple located in the Karahashi neighborhood of the of the city of , . The temple no longer exists, and its ruins were designated a National Historic Site in 1921, with the area under protection expanded in 1966. is situated 530 metres east of Nishioji Railway Station.

Buddhist temple
Photo: Kakidai, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tō-ji Temple, a.k.a. the Kyō-ō-gokoku-ji is a Shingon Buddhist temple in the ward of , . Founded in 796, Tō-ji Temple was one of the only three Buddhist temples allowed in the city at the time it became the capital of Japan. is situated 1½ km east of Nishioji Railway Station.

Shinto shrine
Photo: Bittercup, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a Shinto shrine, which is situated 370 metres north of Nishioji Railway Station.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Shimogyō-ku and South Kyoto.

Suburb
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is one of the eleven wards in the city of , in , . First established in 1879, it has been merged and split, and took on its present boundaries in 1955, with the establishment of a separate . and Kyoto Station are major landmarks in .

Photo: Grialte, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Southern Kyoto covers a large part of Japan's , stretching from the Ōharano area in the west to Fushimi-ku, Daigo, and the southern tip of Higashiyama-ku in the east.

Photo: AlasdairW, CC BY-SA 3.0.
encompasses the urban heart of Japan's former imperial capital.

Nishioji Railway Station

Latitude
34.98114° or 34° 58′ 52″ north
Longitude
135.73214° or 135° 43′ 56″ east
Elevation
21 metres (69 feet)
Open location code
8Q6QXPJJ+FV
Open­Street­Map ID
node 7824789135
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­stop_position
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­stop
Open­Street­Map attribute
wheelchair=­no
Geo­Names ID
7560833
Wiki­data ID
Q1071821
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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Ukrainian—“Nishioji Railway Station” goes by many names.
  • Chinese: “西大路站”
  • Dutch: “station Nishioji”
  • Dutch: “Station Nishioji”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “محطة نيشيوچى”
  • Esperanto: “Stacio Nishiōji”
  • French: “gare de Nishiōji”
  • French: “Gare de Nishiōji”
  • French: “Nishiōji”
  • Italian: “stazione di Nishiōji”
  • Italian: “Stazione di Nishiōji”
  • Japanese: “JR-A32”
  • Japanese: “Nishiōji-eki”
  • Japanese: “Nishiōji”
  • Japanese: “にしおおじえき”
  • Japanese: “西大路”
  • Japanese: “西大路駅”
  • Korean: “니시오지”
  • Korean: “니시오지역”
  • Russian: “Нисиодзи”
  • Turkish: “Nishiōji İstasyonu”
  • Ukrainian: “Нішіоджі”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Nishioji Railway Station”. Photo: Mister0124, CC BY-SA 4.0.