The LED display unit, instead of a direction-displaying cloth, has become prominent recently for displaying a destination/route on route buses, but such a unit has been introduced only partially in the Kyoto City buses and the cloth display is still used mainly in these buses (a different color has been used for the buses for each of "uniform fare route," "circular route" and "multi-section route" as described later, and it's said that this fact largely affects the use of direction-displaying cloths).
なお、近年の路線バス車体において主流となっているLED表示の方向幕（行先・経路表示機）は一部を除いて導入されておらず、今なお幕式表示が主流となっている（これは後述の均一・循環・多区間系統の色別表示を行っている事が大きく影響しているものとされる）。