are as-yet still unclear. There are several issues to be considered: The population of Rakusai New Town is holding steady or decreasing; Rakusaiguchi Station on the Hankyū Kyoto Main Line and Katsuragawa Station on the JR Kyoto Line are already in service, so the inconvenience of transportation in that area has already been resolved to a degree; The subway's high construction costs; and the population of the Umezu and Kamikatsura districts leading into Rakusai New Town along the route are not very large. Timeline October 12, 1997: Opening of the section from Daigo to Nijō. The Keihan Keishin Line is incorporated into the subway. November 26, 2004: Opening of the section from Rokujizō to Daigo. January 16, 2008: Opening of the section from Nijō to Uzumasa Tenjingawa. Sights of note along the line Daigo Station: Daigo-ji, a Buddhist temple with a pagoda and Japanese garden; connections to Toyotomi Hideyoshi Kyōto Shiyakusho-mae Station: Kyoto City Hall; nearby, the rebuilt Honnō-ji, the original of which (in another part of the city) burned in the attack by Akechi Mitsuhide against Oda Nobunaga Nijō-jō-mae Station: The Nijo Castle of Tokugawa Ieyasu References Kyoto Municipal Subway Standard gauge railways in Japan Railway lines opened in 1997 1997 establishments in Japan