Railway line in Tokyo, Japan
The
Yokosuka Line
(
Japanese
:
?須賀線
,
Hepburn
:
Yokosuka-sen
)
is a railway line in Japan operated by the
East Japan Railway Company
(JR East).
The Yokosuka Line connects
Tokyo Station
with
Kurihama
in
Yokosuka, Kanagawa
. Officially, the name Yokosuka Line is assigned to the 23.9 km (14.9 mi) segment between
?funa
and Kurihama stations, but the entire route is commonly referred to as the Yokosuka Line by JR East for passenger service.
Basic data
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Route as operated by JR East
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Route
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The Yokosuka Line runs underground between Tokyo and Shinagawa (parallel to the
T?kaid? Main Line
, the
Yamanote Line
and the
Keihin-T?hoku Line
) then branches to the west along the
T?kaid? Shinkansen
into the city of
Kawasaki
. (This alignment, technically known as the Hinkaku Line (Japanese:
品鶴線
,
Japanese pronunciation:
[Hinkaku-sen]
), was originally built for freight usage; see below.) It rejoins the T?kaid? Main Line corridor near
Tsurumi Station
and follows the T?kaid? Main Line to
?funa
, where it branches off to the southeast along the original Yokosuka Line toward the
Miura Peninsula
.
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Yokosuka Line local trains make all stops. Most trains have 11 cars, with two of those being Green (first class) cars. Other trains between Tokyo and Zushi are made up of 15 cars?an 11-car set joined to a 4-car set. (Due to shorter platform length at stations south of Zushi, only 11-car trains are operated to Kurihama.) Some day-time trains operate between Zushi and Kurihama and these trains are made up of 4-car set without Green Cars.
Sh?nan-Shinjuku Line
trains enter or exit the Yokosuka Line at Nishi-?i. Utsunomiya?Yokosuka Line through services make all stops on the Yokosuka Line between Nishi-?i and Zushi, while Takasaki?T?kaid? Line through services operate Rapid service within the Yokosuka Line, between Nishi-?i and ?funa, skipping Nishi-?i, Shin-Kawasaki, Hodogaya and Higashi-Totsuka.
For information on the
Narita Express
and other limited express services, see their respective articles.
The Yokosuka Line has through service onto the
S?bu Line
to
Chiba
and beyond. Some trains travel as far as:
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The section between Yokosuka and Kurihama is single-tracked; trains can only pass one another at Kinugasa and Kurihama stations.
Local trains stop at all stations, from Tokyo to Kurihama. Meanwhile, Sh?nan?Shinjuku Line (Utsunomiya?Yokosuka Line) stop at all stations between Nishi-?i and Zushi.
Sh?nan?Shinjuku Line (Takasaki?T?kaid? Line) operate Rapid service on the Yokosuka Line.
Legends:
- ● : Trains stop
- | : Trains pass
- ▲ : Sh?nan?Shinjuku Line (Takasaki?T?kaid? Line) trains use T?kaid? Line platforms
Rolling stock
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Yokosuka Line (through service to the S?bu Rapid Line)
Sh?nan-Shinjuku Line through service
History
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The Yokosuka Line was constructed in response to the request to the
Cabinet
by the
Navy
and the
Army
, dated June 22, 1886, citing the lack of ground transportation to Yokosuka, one of the most important military bases in the country. On April 22, 1887 the Cabinet ordered the Government Railways to build the line with the budget diverted from the fund for the T?kaid? Line construction. After the survey from July to December 1887, the construction of the railway between ?funa and Yokosuka started in January 1888 and completed in June 1889 spending 408,480 yen in total. The operation of the line started on June 16, 1889.
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Prince Mikasa
on the Yokosuka Line in 1946
- 16 June 1889: Line opens between ?funa and Yokosuka with intermediate stations at Kamakura and Zushi
- 1 April 1895: Line becomes part of the T?kaid? Line
- 1 May 1904: Taura Station opens
- 12 October 1909: Line renamed the Yokosuka Line
- 12 August 1914: Line doubled-tracked between Zushi and Numama Signal Box (newly built between Zushi and Taura)
- 13 September 1916: Line doubled-tracked between ?funa and Kamakura
- March 1917: Line doubled-tracked between Kamakura and Zushi
- 20 October 1920: Line doubled-tracked between Numama Signal Box and Taura
- 25 December 1924: Line doubled-tracked between Taura and Yokosuka
- 23 December 1925: Entire line electrified; electric locomotives begin operation between Tokyo and Yokosuka
- 20 May 1927: Kita-Kamakura Station (temporary) opens
- 15 March 1930: Service with electric multiple units (EMU) begins
- 1 October 1930: Kita-Kamakura Station becomes a permanent station
- 1 April 1944: Line was extended to Kurihama; Kinugasa Station opens
- April?August 1945: Sagami-Kanaya Station (temporary) is operated to serve a military base between Yokosuka and Kinugasa
- 1 April 1952: Higashi-Zushi Station opens
- 16 June 1968: Luggage on a Yokosuka Line train exploded near ?funa Station, killing one and injuring 14. The culprit, a man in his 20s, testified that he had not meant to kill anyone, but to frighten his ex-fiancee, who had left him for an acquaintance; however, he was ultimately convicted and sentenced to death.
- 1 October 1974: Freight service abolished between Yokosuka and Kurihama
- 1 October 1976: New double-tracked underground line between Tokyo and Shinagawa opens;
S?bu Line (Rapid)
trains terminate at Shinagawa
- 1 October 1980: Separated T?kaid? Line tracks between Tokyo and ?funa opened for Yokosuka Line service; Shin-Kawasaki, Higashi-Totsuka stations open; Hodogaya Station served only by Yokosuka Line trains
- 1 February 1984: Freight service abolished between Yokosuka and Zushi
- 2 April 1986: Nishi-?i station opens
- 2 May 1998: Through service to Zushi from the
Yokohama
and
Negishi
lines are operated on weekends and holidays
- 1 December 2001: Sh?nan-Shinjuku Line begins operation
- 16 October 2004: Major revision of Sh?nan-Shinjuku Line services; Shinjuku-terminating trains abolished
- 1 May 2006: JR Freight ceases operations between Taura and Zushi
- 15 March 2008: Weekend/holiday through service to Zushi from the
Yokohama
and
Negishi
lines is abolished; new Yokosuka Line platform installed at Shinagawa Station
- 13 March 2010: Yokosuka Line service at Musashi-Kosugi Station commences
- 13 March 2015: Ohay? Liner Zushi and Home Liner Zushi are discontinued.
- 20 August 2016: Station numbering was introduce with stations being assigned station numbers between JO01 and JO19.
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Numbers increase towards in the northbound direction towards Tokyo.
- 17 March 2018:
Airport Narita
services are discontinued.
Hinkaku Line
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The
Hinkaku Line
(
品鶴線
,
Hinkaku-sen
)
was originally built to divert freight traffic from the busy
T?kaid? Main Line
, providing an alternate route between
Tokyo
and
Tsurumi
. After a 1967 explosion, freight trains were banned from portions of the central Tokyo rail network, providing the impetus for the construction of the orbital
Musashino Line
. The new Musashino Line was connected to the Hinkaku Line roughly 6 km (3.7 mi) north of Tsurumi Station near
Musashi-Kosugi
, siphoning off nearly all freight traffic after its opening in 1975. This left a substantial chunk of the double-tracked, mostly grade-separated Hinkaku Line disused.
In order to put the line back into passenger service, a new 6 km (3.7 mi) track was installed between Tsurumi Station and the Musashino Line, where it was connected to the now-disused portion of the Hinkaku Line. Two new stations were constructed: one (
Shin-Kawasaki
) adjacent to the existing
Kashimada Station
on the
Nambu Line
in 1980 and another at
Nishi-?i
in 1986.
Musashi-Kosugi Station
, the third station in this section opened in 2010 and provides a transfer to the Nambu Line as well as the
T?ky?
T?yoko
and
Meguro
lines.
See also
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References
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- ^
"平成27年 大都市交通センサス 首都?報告書"
(PDF)
.
P.92
. ?土交通省.
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"?須賀??武快速線 E235 系?業運?開始について"
(PDF)
.
East Japan Railway Company
(in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. November 12, 2020
. Retrieved
November 21,
2020
.
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Ministry of Railways (1921).
日本?道史 上?
[
History of Japanese Railways, Volume 1
]. p. 501.
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"?都?エリアへ 「?ナンバリング」を導?します"
[Introduce “station numbering” to the Tokyo metropolitan area]
(PDF)
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jreast.co.jp
(in Japanese). 6 April 2016. Archived from
the original
(PDF)
on 7 December 2022
. Retrieved
7 January
2023
.
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Kusamachi, Yoshikazu (7 April 2016).
"JA?JK?JT?AKB…JR東日本、首都?で?ナンバリングなど導入へ"
[JA, JK, JT, AKB … JR East to introduce station numbering in the Tokyo metropolitan area].
Response Automotive Media
(in Japanese). Archived from
the original
on 6 August 2022
. Retrieved
7 January
2023
.
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