Once crowded with departing and repatriated soldiers, the railway is now used by people traveling to the Maizuru area on business or for sightseeing trips to Tango province in northern Kyoto Prefecture and Reinan in southern Fukui Prefecture.
かつて出征者や引揚者の輸送で賑わった路線も現在は舞鶴市などへのビジネス利用や丹後国・嶺南への観光路線となっている。