is a railway station located in Mukō, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan. It serves the JR Kyoto Line (Tōkaidō Main Line) of West Japan Railway Company. The distances to major stations are 6.4 km to Kyoto Station, 36.4 km to Osaka Station and 520.0 km to Tokyo Station. Mukōmachi Station is one of three railway stations in the city of Mukō; the others are and stations on the Hankyu Kyoto Line. Trains Trains of the JR Kyoto Line except special rapid service trains stop at the station, and rapid service trains pass in the morning. Station facilities The track runs north to south and the station building stands west of the tracks. On the tracks there are two island platforms. Tracks No. 2 and 3 are for passenger use, with Tracks No. 1 and 4 fenced off as all trains on the outer tracks pass through this station without stopping. History Mukōmachi Station opened on 28 July 1876, as the first railway station in Kyoto Prefecture when the nation's second-oldest railway line connecting Osaka and Kobe was first extended towards Kyoto. The location of the station was a crossing point of the railway and the to Kyoto. The railway once terminated at Mukōmachi was extended to the temporary station of Kyoto on 5 September 1876. Mukōmachi was the name of the predecessor town of the city of Mukō. When Mukō become a city in 1972, the two Hankyu stations were renamed from Nishi-Mukōmachi and Higashi-Mukōmachi respectively, but the name of JNR station was not changed. Station numbering was introduced to the station in March 2018 with Mukōmachi being assigned station number JR-A34. Environs South of the station is the large train yard called Kyoto Sōgō Untensho, a base of passenger trains of West Japan Railway. Higashi-Mukō Station of the Hankyu Kyoto Line is located about 0.5 km southwest of the station. A free bus service connects the station to Mukōmachi Keirinjō bicycle racecourse when keirin races are held there. Adjacent stations References External links Mukōmachi Station (JR West official site) Railway stations in Kyoto Prefecture Tōkaidō Main Line Railway stations in Japan opened in 1876 Mukō