With tatami mats, noren curtains and a zen garden, this is one of the most stunning and affordable ways to travel in Japan.
Kyoto is well known for being a city of historic beauty, with an impressive number of ancient shrines and temples, pristine Japanese gardens, and rows of beautifully preserved traditional townhouses known as machiya. It’s these machiya, in fact, that give the streets of downtown Kyoto its unique charm, and while it can be a dream for many to step inside one, there’s now a novel way to experience their beauty firsthand, even before arriving in the old capital.
All it takes is a ticket to ride the Kyotrain Garaku, a new train that takes you from Osaka to Kyoto on the Hankyu Kyoto Line in less than 45 minutes. Although you might wish the ride was longer, given that the train looks like this.
乗ったら偶然雅楽だった！なんだかラッキー https://t.co/iJNtQal983
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じゅん💜 (@jun02tb) April 13, 2019
The beautiful wrap on the outside of the train makes it look like all the carriages are covered in traditional lacquer, with golden embellishments giving it a sense of refined elegance, which was the design brief Hankyu Railways was aiming for.
京とれいんを見るなら大阪梅田駅よりも京都河原町駅の方がいいですね。時間にもよるけど、河原町の方が空いていて、車内もゆっくり見る事が出来ます。折り返し時間も梅田駅よりも長いしね。 https://t.co/2PME3ZyT6K
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Mt.shuzo (@Mt_shuzo_822446) May 03, 2019
This elegance continues inside the train, where each carriage comes with its own seasonal theme to highlight the changing scenery of Kyoto throughout the year. Car 1 features maple-leaf motifs, to represent autumn, while Car 2 is decorated in bamboo motifs, as a nod to winter.
#京とれいん #雅洛 1号車の車内を梅田で降りしなにスナップ。 梅田に着くと、スゴイ人集り。 普段、電車の写真なんか絶対撮ってなそうな、大学生くらいの女の子グループやら、若いカップルやら、オッチャン・オバチャンまで、皆んな雅洛を… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
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ＺＯＰ－Ｋ (@zop485) March 30, 2019
Car 3 salutes the sakura cherry blossoms of spring, Car 4 is adorned in geraniums for summer, while Cars 5 and 6 focus their attention on the early autumn pampas grass, and the plum blossoms seen in early spring.
家に帰るだけなのに タイミングが合うとこんな電車に乗れます(*´∀`) #京とれいん https://t.co/9YSmn5QV5b
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さんみー@ドラクエ10 (@sanmii_DQ) May 19, 2019
Cars 2 and 5 also have sections with seats facing the windows, so you can feel like you’re sitting on a viewing porch overlooking a regal landscape..
12:41河原町発の快速特急(京とれいん雅洛)にて大阪に移動👍 前回4号車だったんで今日は3号車。 #阪急電車 #京とれいん #雅洛 https://t.co/MavTJlSL4v
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Yassan-KYOTO (@yassan1966) May 04, 2019
Other interior touches you’ll be hard pressed to find on any other train are the noren curtains at the entrance to each carriage, tatami straw mat details, and tranquil Japanese gardens.
京とれいんの内装て銀魂の世界の電車にありそう https://t.co/HERyQoo5j5
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蕎麦島β (@Sobashima) April 30, 2019
温泉みたい ですが 電車です。 #京とれいん #雅洛 https://t.co/pO9gmoVku4
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ぼっちをこよなく愛する えり ((o(^∇^)o)) (@breeder_osusume) May 05, 2019
入学式に向かう阪急京都線。 偶然、京とれいんに遭遇したんで、乗ることに。 車内がすごいことになってる… https://t.co/mxTE16bxxY
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はある (@ha_ru24410) April 02, 2019
帰りも京とれいん🚃 真っ直ぐ帰らないけどね😊笑 https://t.co/XGHXDQ7nfy
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いなちゅ (@inachupika) May 18, 2019
▼ Round windows resemble those seen at temples and samurai villas…
京とれいん 雅洛 に初乗車。 前の京とれいんもだけど、普通料金と変わらずに利用できて驚異のサービスだと思うんだけど、阪急さんほんまに大丈夫なの？ありがとうございます🙏 https://t.co/xBMD7A60gW
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0鮫 (@SHarcmiz0n0) May 05, 2019
▼ The walls are decorated with Japanese imagery and items like fans…
阪急電車 京とれいん雅洛ついに乗れたぁ GWでいっぱいかと思ったら めっちゃ空いてるぅ #京とれいん #京とれいん雅洛 #素敵すぎる https://t.co/AQHbx65YXU
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ミーチャ (@HKw1f) May 06, 2019
京とれいんに乗車 （烏丸→淡路） https://t.co/v5t3IwmHoO
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そらゆき🐳 (@skyukich) April 30, 2019
▼ And there are bamboo blinds on the windows.
▼ Even the hand straps have a high-class leather-and-wood look to them.
京とれいんの内装やばい、これ普通に乗れるとかもっとやばい https://t.co/ErYFK2dd00
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茜丸 (@akanemanmaru1) March 31, 2019
The Kyotrain Garaku is currently running between Kyoto’s Kawaramachi and Osaka’s Umeda Stations, with stops at Karasuma, Katsura, Awaji, and Juso. The train runs seven times a day (weekends and holidays only), with the first and last departures from Umeda being 9:32 a.m. and 3:32 p.m., and those from Kawaramachi being 10:41 a.m. and 4:41 p.m.
While Hankyu Railway isn’t covered by the all-inclusive JR rail pass that’s popular with foreign travellers to Japan, the Kyotrain Garaku fare from Umeda to Kawaramachi is just 400 yen (US$3.50), the same as any other Hankyu train traveling between those two stations. It’s an incredibly affordable way to experience one of the country’s most beautiful and unique trains, which means we can put aside some extra yen for a trip on some of the country’s other stunning trains.
Source: Twitter/京とれいん
Featured image: Twitter/@jun02tb
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