JunkSpots

Municipal · Drop-off · Free

Kamigyo Recycle Station (上京リサイクルステーション)

Sixteen categories of household recycling taken free, with no booking and no car needed, paper, clothing, cooking oil, batteries of every kind, fluorescent tubes, small appliances, ink cartridges, blades, and disposable lighters that still have fuel in them.

Right for you if

  • Small appliances that fit within 30 × 40 × 40 cm, batteries, fluorescent tubes and clothing, up to about five 45-litre bags of clothing per visit.
  • It has to cost nothing.
  • You can get it there under your own steam.
  • You want to turn up without booking.

Look elsewhere if

  • You have no way of getting it there.
  • It is more than a household quantity.

Contact and booking

Phone
075-222-3952
Email
Not published
Book online
Not published
Address
京都市上京区中立売通油小路東入甲斐守町100
Opening hours
9am–5pm, including Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays. Closed over New Year.
Website
Not published

Verification

Verified against an official source

Last checked 18 August 2026

That means we read a published source and it said this. It does not mean we watched them do it, or followed the material afterwards, that is a separate, deeper check this has not been through. How we check →

Sources

Part of How to get rid of stuff in Kyoto.

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Why use it

It is the only municipal facility in Kyoto open at weekends, and the only one you can walk to. The clean centres take cars only, charge by weight and need booking a day ahead; this takes none of that.

Good for

  • electronics
  • batteries
  • clothes
  • textiles
  • books
  • other items

How it works

How you use it You take it there.
Cost Free.
Booking No appointment needed.
Service area Kyoto City
Run by Kyoto City, a municipal service

Where your things go

A named destination is worth more than a stated intention, and both are worth more than silence. This is the row to read before you book: if your item's row is empty, ask them on the phone and tell us what they say.

Not documented yet. This operator has not published what happens to each kind of item, and we have not been able to establish it from anywhere else. That is the gap, stated rather than hidden. If you ask them, tell us what they say.

Does it actually work

The part no company website tells you. Some of this comes from our checks, some from readers who used the service, and where nobody has told us yet, it says so.

  • Booking

    Their pages

    No appointment needed.

  • Typical wait

    Needs reports

    Not established

    Nobody has told us how long they waited. Two reader reports would settle it.

  • Do they answer

    Needs reports

    Not established

    We read their pages, we did not phone them. One reader who got through would settle it.

  • Restrictions

    Their pages

    Household quantities only

  • Who it's for

    Their pages

    Residents of the area it covers.

  • Last checked

    Pipeline

    18 August 2026

    Checked against their published pages.

What happens to it

  • Recycled
  • Broken down for materials

This describes the route the item takes, as the operator states it. We do not claim a recovery rate we have not seen evidence for.

What readers told us

Used them recently?

How long you waited, what they refused, whether anyone picked up the phone. Those are the three facts no website publishes and the ones the next reader needs.

Tell us what happened

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