What is the main thing you do in a station? Off course you will take a train there.
You may meet with your friend or you might have a last dinner with your girl(boy) friend leaving to Tokyo. Anyway main thing what we would do in a station might be passing by and sometimes meet a person.
Then thinking about the Kyoto station, I have to conclude it is by no means good at all. For the first, it is not so pleasant to walk through Kyoto station if it is crowded. I am not architect and can't tell you what is wrong with it but I am sure the person who designed it didn't consider with great care about the people who would walk through it.
The second problem about meeting place could be more serious. For example, I have met a friend last weekend at Kyoto station. She brought up in Kyoto and visits her parents in Kyoto almost every two months and I had lived there for seven years in total.. But still we couldn't decide where to meet as the station is too pointless.
I asked some friends where they meet with somebody in Kyoto station. The popular answers are central exit. Yes, it is good place if you know it is the "central exit" and not the north exit. I wonder how many people know which one is "the central" among the four exits around Kyoto station.
But how about your friend or business partner came from overseas? Best suggestion might be waiting them on the platform. If you can't do that, you have to do enough research to find the place to meet. The station is too confusing and too big.
Frankly speaking, my impression of Kyoto station is a big presentation of someone's ego and that seems to have less sympathy to other people than enough.
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