Sakura-d?ri Line
Sakura-d?ri Line 6050 series, July 2010
Overview
Locale	Nagoya
Termini	Taiko-dori Tokushige
Stations	21
Service
Type	Rapid transit
System	Nagoya Municipal Subway
Operator(s)	Transportation Bureau City of Nagoya
Depot(s)	Tokushige
Rolling stock	6000 series 6050 series
Daily ridership	85,173 [1] (2008)
History
Opened	10 September 1989 ; 34 years ago  ( 10 September 1989 )
Technical
Track length	19.1 km (11.9 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in )
Electrification	1,500 V DC
Operating speed	75 km/h (45 mph)

The Sakura-d?ri Line ( ?通線 , Sakura-d?ri-sen ) is a subway line, part of the Nagoya Municipal Subway system in Nagoya , Japan. It runs from Taiko-dori Station in Nakamura Ward to Tokushige in Midori Ward , all within Nagoya. The Sakura-d?ri Line's color on maps is red. In 2004, the city started to change all station signs. The new signs have a station name followed by a single letter and a number. In the case of Sakura-d?ri Line, the letter is S . Officially, the line is called Nagoya City Rapid Railway Line 6 ( 名古屋市高速度?道第6?線 , Nagoya-shi K?sokudo Tetsud? Dai-roku-g?-sen ) . All the stations accept manaca , a rechargeable contactless smart card .

The first section of the line opened in 1989. Between Nagoya and Imaike, the line runs under Sakura-d?ri Avenue , being the bypass line of Higashiyama Line . Until 2015, it was the only Nagoya Municipal Subway line to use Automatic train operation .

All platforms are 8 cars long but only 5 car trains are currently operated.

Stations [ edit ]

All stations are in Nagoya.

Number	Station name	Japanese	Total distance	Transfers	Location
S 01	Taiko-dori	太閤通	0.0		Nakamura
S 02	Nagoya	名古屋	0.9	Nagoya Municipal Subway: Higashiyama Line (H-08) Ch?? Main Line , Kansai Main Line , T?kaid? Main Line , T?kaid? Shinkansen Kintetsu Nagoya Line ( Kintetsu Nagoya ) Meitetsu Nagoya Line ( Meitetsu Nagoya ) Aonami Line (AN01)
S 03	Kokusai Center (International Center)	?際センタ?	1.6
S 04	Marunouchi	丸の?	2.4	Tsurumai Line (T-06)	Naka
S 05	Hisaya-?d?ri	久屋大通	3.3	Meij? Line (M-06)
S 06	Takaoka	高岳	4.0	Kamiiida Line (planned extension)	Higashi
S 07	Kurumamichi	車道	5.3
S 08	Imaike	今池	6.3	Higashiyama Line (H-13)	Chikusa
S 09	Fukiage	吹上	7.4	Nagoya Municipal Subway: T?bu Line (planned)
S 10	Gokiso	御器所	8.4	Tsurumai Line (T-12)	Sh?wa
S 11	Sakurayama	?山	9.5		Mizuho
S 12	Mizuho Kuyakusho	瑞??役所	10.4
S 13	Mizuho Und?j? Nishi	瑞?運動場西	11.1
S 14	Aratama-bashi	新瑞橋	11.8	Meij? Line (M-23)
S 15	Sakura-hommachi	?本町	12.9	Nagoya Municipal Subway: Nambu Line (planned)	Minami
S 16	Tsurusato	鶴里	13.8
S 17	Nonami	野?	14.9		Tempaku
S 18	Naruko Kita	鳴子北	16.0
S 19	Aioiyama	相生山	16.9		Midori
S 20	Kamisawa	神?	18.3
S 21	Tokushige	?重	19.1

Rolling stock [ edit ]

• 6000 series
• 6050 series

History [ edit ]

The Sakura-d?ri Line was first envisioned in the Urban Transportation Council Report No. 14 (1972) as an underground line running from Nakamura Kuyakusho to Imaike, and was intended to relieve the central portion of the Higashiyama Line, which in the late-1970s operated with a crush load capacity of 250% during rush hour.

The line was opened on 10 September 1989 between Nakamura Kuyakusho and Imaike. Automatic train operation (ATO) using a single driver commenced on 16 February 1994, and the line was extended from Imaike to Nonami on 30 March 1994.

From Nonami, the line was extended further east to Tokushige, in Midori-ku , on 27 March 2011. ^{[2] [3]} This extension also involved building a new depot near Tokushige Station, which replaced the previous depot located near Nakamura Kuyakusho Station. There is a plan to extend the line even further, somewhere in Toyoake City or Toyota City . There is also a plan to extend the line to opposite direction, from Nakamura Kuyakusho to somewhere in Ama .

See also [ edit ]

• List of railway lines in Japan

References [ edit ]

External links [ edit ]

• Nagoya Bureau of Transportation (official) (in Japanese)
• Nagoya Bureau of Transportation (official)
• Subway map