Keihan Bus

KEIHAN BUS Co.Ltd.
Highway bus Tokyo Midnight Express Kyoto
ParentKeihan Electric Railway
Founded1922 (as Momoyama Motor Co., Ltd.)
1924 (change corporation name to Keihan Bus)
Headquarters5 Higashi-Kujo Minami-Ishidamachi Minami, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
Service areaKyoto and Osaka, Shiga
Service typeBus
Chief executiveKazuya Suzuki
Websitehttp://www.keihanbus.co.jp/

The Keihan Bus Co.Ltd. (京阪バス株式会社, Keihan Basu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a bus company company that operates within Osaka, in southern Kyoto, and Ōtsu. It is a subsidiary of the Keihan Group, which also runs Keihan Electric Railway.

Typical red-and-white Keihan Bus at Yamashina Station
Sightseeing bus exclusively for tours of Kyoto
Community bus, Moriguchi

History[edit]

Keihan Bus Company was established on 22 July 1922[1] as a taxi company called Momoyama Motor Co., Ltd.(桃山自動車株式会社). In 1924 it became a subsidiary of Keihan, which runs the Keihan Electric Railway. It later merged with other transportation companies, including Daigo Kisen and Jōhoku Motor Co. in 1930, and Keihan-Uji Kotsu and Keihan Uji Kotsu Tanabe in 2006. As a result of these mergers, Keihan Bus has acquired an extensive service area in Osaka, Kyoto and Shiga Prefecture.

Local bus services[edit]

Offices[edit]

Keihan Bus offices attached to garages include:

  • Ōtsu Office: There are route buses which run with Kōjaku Railway.
  • Yamashina Office
  • Rakunan Office: There are route buses which run with Nara Kotsu.
  • Kyotanabe Office
  • Otokoyama Office
  • Hirakata Office
  • Takatsuki Office
  • Katano Office
  • Neyagawa Office
  • Kadoma Office

Information desks[edit]

Information desks are known as "K-bit" (the abbreviation for the Keihan-bus Information & Tickets)

Temporary sales offices[edit]

These type desks open at the beginning and end of each month.

Bus terminals[edit]

Subsidiary companies[edit]

Keihan Kyoto Kotsu[edit]

KEIHAN KYOTO KOTSU Co., Ltd.
ParentKeihan Bus
Founded1 April 2005
Headquarters10 Shinomukaidani Shinocho Kameoka, Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan (621-0826 京都府亀岡市篠町篠向谷10番)
Service areaKyoto
Service typeBus
Chief executiveKazuhiro Sakamoto
Websitehttp://www.keihankyotokotsu.jp/

The Keihan Kyoto Co.Ltd. (京阪京都交通株式会社, Keihan kyouto koutsu Kabushiki-gaisha) is a bus company within the Keihan Group, established in April 2005[2] by splitting from Keihan Bus. Its service areas are in the northwest of Kyoto.

References[edit]

  1. ^ KEIHAN Bus Co., Ltd. 京阪バス 会社情報 (in Japanese). Japan. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. ^ KEIHAN KYOTO KOTSU Co., Ltd. 京阪京都交通 会社情報 (in Japanese). Japan. Retrieved 10 July 2021.

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