History
The line now called the JR Kyoto Line opened in 1876, only four years after the opening of the first railway in Japan. The naming of the JR Kyoto Line was in 1988.
- July 26, 1876 – Government railway opens the section between Ōsaka and Mukōmachi with an intermediate station at Takatsuki
- August 9, 1876 – Yamazaki Station, Ibaraki Station and Suita Station open
- September 5, 1876 – Government railway opens the section between Mukōmachi and Ōmiyadōri temporary station, west of under construction Kyoto Station
- February 6, 1877 – Kyoto Station opens and Ōmiyadōri temporary station closes
- July 25, 1924 – Settsu-Tonda Station opens
- August 1, 1931 – Kōtari Station (present-day Nagaokakyō Station) opens
- July 20, 1934 – Electrification of section between Suita and Suma (west of Ōsaka) completes
- October 10, 1937 – Electrification of section between Kyoto and Suita completes
- September 16, 1938 – Nishiōji Station opens
- December 1, 1938 – Senrioka Station opens
- April 1, 1940 – Higashi-Yodogawa Station opens
- April 11, 1947 – Kishibe Station opens
- June 1, 1949 - Japanese National Railways (JNR) becomes the operator of the line
- October 1, 1964 – Shin-Ōsaka Station opens with a Tōkaidō Shinkansen connection
- October 1, 1970 – Operation of Special Rapid Service starts
- April 1, 1987 - JR West becomes the operator of the line following privatization of JNR
- March 13, 1988 – JR West starts the use of the line name JR Kyoto Line
- March 15, 2008 – Shimamoto Station opens (first opening of new station after the naming in 1988)
- October 18, 2008 – Katsuragawa Station opens
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