Meguro Line

The Meguro Line (目黒線, Tōkyū-Meguro-sen) is a railway line operated by Japanese private railway company Tokyu Corporation. As a railway line, the name is for the section between Meguro and Den-en-chōfu in southwest Tokyo, but nearly all trains run to Hiyoshi on a quad-tracked section of the Tōyoko Line in Yokohama, Kanagawa. Additionally, the Meguro line interoperates with the Tokyo Metro Namboku Line and Toei Mita Line beyond Meguro.

Meguro Line
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A Tokyu 3020 series train on the Meguro Line
Overview
Native name	目黒線
Owner	Tokyu Corporation
Locale	Tokyo
Termini	Meguro Hiyoshi
Stations	13
Color on map	Sky Blue (#009bd8)
Service
Type	Commuter rail
Daily ridership	388,982 (FY 2018)[1]
Technical
Line length	11.9 km (7.4 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC overhead catenary
Route map Legend km Nishi-Takashimadaira Saitama Rapid Railway Line Akabane-Iwabuchi Kōrakuen│Kasuga Namboku Line │ Toei Mita Line Shirokane-takanawa Tokyo Metro Namboku & Toei Mita Lines Yamanote Line Shōnan Shinjuku & Saikyō lines 0.0 Meguro 1.0 Fudōmae 1.9 Musashi-Koyama 2.6 Nishi-Koyama 3.3 Senzoku Tōkyū Ōimachi Line 4.3 Ōokayama Midorigaoka Tōkyū Ōimachi Line Okusawa depot 5.5 Okusawa Tōkyū Tōyoko Line 6.5 Den-en-chōfu 7.3 Tamagawa Tōkyū Tamagawa Line Tama River Tokyo Kanagawa 8.6 Shin-Maruko Tōkaidō Shinkansen Yokosuka & Shōnan Shinjuku Lines Nambu Line 9.1 Musashi-Kosugi Yokosuka & Shōnan Shinjuku Lines Musashino Line (freight) Tōkaidō Shinkansen 10.4 Motosumiyoshi Motosumiyoshi depot 11.9 Hiyoshi Green Line Through service to Tōkyū Shin-Yokohama Line Tōkyū Tōyoko Line km Key Express and local station Local only station Underground pedestrian connection This diagram: view talk edit

Meguro Line tracks run parallel with the Tōyoko Line between Den-en-chōfu and Hiyoshi stations (inside tracks - Meguro Line, outside tracks - Tōyoko Line)

History

• 1923:
  • March 11: The line opens as the Meguro Line between Meguro and Maruko (now Numabe) (on the current Tamagawa Line).^[2]
  • October: Meguro-Fudōmae station is renamed to Fudōmae station.
  • November 1: The line is extended from Maruko to Kamata, and the line is renamed to the Mekama line.^[2]
• 1924, June 1: Koyama becomes Musashi-Koyama.^[1]
• 1926, January 1: Chōfu and Tamagawa stations are renamed to Den-en-Chōfu and Maruko-Tamagawa stations respectively.^[1]
• 1928, August 1: Nishi-Koyama station opens.
• 1931, January 1: Maruko-Tamagawa station is renamed again to Tamagawa-en-mae station.^[1]
• 1977, December 16: Tamagawa-en-mae station is renamed yet again to Tamagawa-en station.^[1]
• 1994, November 27: Den-en-Chōfu station moves underground.
• 1997:
  • June 27: Ōokayama station moves underground.
  • July 27: Meguro station moves underground.
• 1999, October 10: Fudōmae station is elevated.
• 2000:
  • August 6: Service is split into two services, Meguro - Musashi-Kosugi and Tamagawa - Kamata. Tamagawa-en station is renamed to Tamagawa station^[1] and one-man operation begins.^[3]
  • September 26: Through service begins with the Tokyo Metro Namboku and Toei Mita Lines.^[3]
• 2001, March 28: Through service begins with the Saitama Rapid Railway line via the Namboku line.^[3]
• 2006:
  • July 2: As part of a grade separation project between Fudōmae and Senzoku, Musashi-Koyama and Nishi-Koyama stations move underground.^[3]
  • September 25: Express service commences.^[3]
• 2008 June 22: Service extended to Hiyoshi.^[3]
• 2022 April: Eight-car trains commence operation on the line.^[4] Platforms on Meguro Line were lengthened in order to accommodate 8-car trainsets and allow through services with Sōtetsu Shin-yokohama Line.^[4]
• 2023 March 18: The through service onto the Sōtetsu Shin-yokohama Line began service.^[5] Since then, most express trains no longer terminate at Hiyoshi but instead either Shin-yokohama, Nishiya, Shōnandai, Yamato or Ebina. The majority of local trains still terminate at Hiyoshi.^[6]

Stations

No.	Station	Japanese	Distance (km)		Local	Express	Transfers	Location
			Between Stations	Total
↑ Through-running to/from↑ NTokyo Metro Namboku Line towards Urawa-misono via the SRSaitama Rapid Railway Line IToei Mita Line towards Nishi-takashimadaira
MG01 N01 I01	Meguro	目黒	-	0.0	O	O	JY Yamanote Line N Tokyo Metro Namboku Line (through service) I Toei Mita Line (through service)	Shinagawa	Tokyo
MG02	Fudō-mae	不動前	1.0	1.0	O	｜
MG03	Musashi-koyama	武蔵小山	0.9	1.9	O	O
MG04	Nishi-koyama	西小山	0.7	2.6	O	｜
MG05	Senzoku	洗足	0.7	3.3	O	｜		Meguro
MG06	Ōokayama	大岡山	1.0	4.3	O	O	OM Oimachi Line	Ōta
MG07	Okusawa	奥沢	1.2	5.5	O	｜		Setagaya
MG08	Den-en-chōfu	田園調布	1.0	6.5	O	O	TY Tōyoko Line	Ōta
MG09	Tamagawa	多摩川	0.8	7.3	O	O	TY Tōyoko Line TM Tokyu Tamagawa Line
MG10	Shin-maruko	新丸子	1.3	8.6	O	｜	TY Tōyoko Line	Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki	Kanagawa
MG11	Musashi-kosugi	武蔵小杉	0.5	9.1	O	O	TY Tōyoko Line JN Nambu Line JO Yokosuka Line JS Shonan-Shinjuku Line
MG12	Motosumiyoshi	元住吉	1.3	10.0	O	｜	TY Tōyoko Line
MG13 SH03	Hiyoshi	日吉	1.5	11.9	O	O	TY Tōyoko Line SH Tōkyū Shin-yokohama Line (through service) Yokohama Municipal Subway Green Line	Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama
↓ Through-running to/from ↓ SH Tōkyū Shin-yokohama Line for Shin-yokohama Sōtetsu Main Line for Ebina Sōtetsu Izumino Line for Shōnandai (via Futamata-gawa on the Sōtetsu Main Line)

^[7]

Ridership

Year	Ridership
2010	321,677[8]
2011	324,052[9]
2012	332,590[10]
2013	342,041[11]
2014	347,884[12]
2015	358,274[13]
2016	368,386[14]
2017	379,212[15]
2018	388,982[1]

Rolling stock

Tokyu

• 3000 series 8-car EMUs
• 3020 series 8-car EMUs^[4]
• 5080 series 8-car EMUs

Other operators

• Toei 6300 series 6-car EMUs (Toei Mita Line)
• Toei 6500 series 8-car EMUs (Toei Mita Line)^[16][17]
• Tokyo Metro 9000 series 6/8-car EMUs (Tokyo Metro Namboku Line)
• Saitama Rapid Railway 2000 series 6-car EMUs (Saitama Rapid Railway Line)

• Sotetsu 21000 series 8-car EMUs (Sōtetsu Main Line or Sōtetsu Izumino Line, via the Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line)^[18]

• 
  Tokyu 3000 series
• 
  Tokyu 3020 series
• 
  Tokyu 5080 series
• 
  Saitama Rapid Railway 2000 series
• 
  Toei 6300 series
• 
  Toei 6500 series
• 
  Tokyo Metro 9000 series
• 
  Sotetsu 21000 series

Former connecting lines

• Okusawa station - A 1 km (0.62 mi) 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge line, electrified at 600 VDC, from Shin-Okusawa operated between 1928 and 1935, providing a connection to Yukigaya-Otsuka on the Tokyu Ikegami Line.

See also

• List of railway lines in Japan

References

1. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2019-2020". Retrieved 18 Mar 2020.
2. "Tokyu Meguro Line". All About Japanese Trains. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
3. "年譜 ｜東急電鉄". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
4. "東急目黒線・東京メトロ南北線など、8両編成の列車が営業運転開始". Mynavi News (in Japanese). 2022-04-05. Retrieved 2022-04-05.
5. "相模鉄道，3月18日にダイヤ改正を実施" [Sagami Railway implements timetable revision on March 18]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 17 December 2022. Retrieved 17 December 2022.
6. Train Departures of Meguro Line (PDF) (in Japanese), Tōkyū Railways, retrieved 2023-03-10
7. https://www.tokyu.co.jp/railway/ (This reference represents the "Stations"section.)
8. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2011-2012". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
9. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2012-2013". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
10. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2013-2014". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
11. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2014-2015". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
12. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2015-2016". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
13. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2016-2017". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
14. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2017-2018". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
15. "TOKYU CORPORATION 2018-2019". www.tokyu.co.jp. Retrieved 2020-03-18.
16. "都営三田線の新型車両6500形、車内もシンプルな造形に - 写真68枚" [New, simplistic 6500 series of the Toei Mita Line]. Mynavi News (in Japanese). 2022-02-17. Retrieved 2022-03-25.
17. "東京都交通局6500形が営業運転を開始" [Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation 6500 series begins commercial operation]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 15 May 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-25.
18. Kinoshita, Kenji (2021-09-02). "相鉄21000系「東急線内は目黒線直通用」9月デビュー! グッズも発売" [Sotetsu 21000 series to debut in September!]. Mynavi News (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-03-25.

External links

• Tokyu Corporation website (in English)