Yokohama Line

The Yokohama Line (Japanese: 横浜線, romanized: Yokohama-sen) is a Japanese railway line of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) connecting Higashi-Kanagawa Station in Yokohama, Kanagawa and Hachiōji Station in Hachiōji, Tokyo. The line forms part of what JR East refers to as the "Tokyo Mega Loop" (Japanese: 東京メガループ) around Tokyo, consisting of the Keiyo Line, Musashino Line, Nambu Line, and Yokohama Line.^[2] The line's name comes from the section between Nagatsuta and Higashi-Kanagawa that runs through the city of Yokohama. Nicknamed the Hama-sen (浜線) by locals,^[3] the line serves commuters in the southwestern suburbs of Tokyo and northeastern suburbs of Yokohama.

Yokohama Line
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A Yokohama Line E233-6000 series EMU
Overview
Native name	横浜線
Locale	Kanagawa Prefecture, Tokyo
Termini	Hachiōji Higashi-Kanagawa
Stations	20
Service
Type	Heavy rail
Operator(s)	JR East
Rolling stock	E233-6000 series
Daily ridership	840,200 (daily 2015)[1]
History
Opened	1908
Technical
Line length	42.6 km (26.5 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC overhead catenary
Operating speed	95 km/h (59 mph)
Route map

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Legend
km Keihin-Tohoku Line Ōfuna Sakuragichō Tōkaidō Main Line & Yokosuka Line Yokohama 0.0 Higashi-Kanagawa Keihin-Tohoku Line Tōkaidō Main Line & Yokosuka Line 2.2 Ōguchi Terao tunnel Tokyu Toyoko Line 4.8 Kikuna Tokaido Shinkansen 6.1 Shin-Yokohama Yokohama Subway Blue Line 7.8 Kozukue Shiroyama tunnel 10.9 Kamoi 13.5 Nakayama 15.9 Tōkaichiba Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line 17.9 Nagatsuta Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line Kodomonokuni Line 20.2 Naruse 22.9 Machida Odakyu Odawara Line 25.7 Kobuchi 28.4 Fuchinobe 29.2 Yabe 31.0 Sagamihara Sagami Line Keio Sagamihara Line 33.8 Hashimoto 35.7 Aihara Aihara tunnel 38.6 Hachiōji-Minamino 40.0 Katakura Keio Takao Line Keio Line 42.6 Hachiōji Chuo Main Line Keio Line Hachiko Line

History

A Yokohama Line 103 series at Higashi-Kanagawa Station marking the first anniversary of JR East, April 1988

The line was opened by the private Yokohama Railway (横浜鉄道, Yokohama Tetsudō) on 23 September 1908 and leased to the government in 1910.^[4] The line was nationalized on 1 October 1917.^[4]

The Higashi-Kanagawa to Haramachida (now Machida) section was electrified on 1 October 1932, with the Haramachida to Hachiōji section electrified on 14 April 1941.^[4]

The Higashi-Kanagawa to Kozukue section was double-tracked by 1968, extended to Aihara by 1980, and completed to Hachiōji on 6 March 1988.^[4]

Through service trains from the Sagami Line began on 16 March 1991, when that line was fully electrified.

Station numbering was introduced on 20 August 2016 with stations being assigned station numbers between JH13 and JH32.^[5][6] Numbers increase towards in the westbound direction towards Hachioji.

Through service operation from the Sagami Line onto the Yokohama Line ended on 11 March 2022.^[7]

Operation

Despite the line's name, only approximately half of all trains run as far as Yokohama Station. Rapid (快速, Kaisoku) trains operate every 20 minutes during the daytime.

Stations

• Local trains stop at all stations.
• Information on the limited express Hama Kaiji service can be found on its page.
• Rapid trains stop at stations marked "●" and pass those marked "｜".
• From Yokohama to Ofuna, the stations are the same stations served by the Negishi Line.

No.	Station	Japanese	Distance (km)		Rapid	Transfers	Location
			Between stations	Total
JH13	Higashi-Kanagawa	東神奈川	-	0.0	●	JK Keihin-Tohoku Line (through to Yokohama and Ōfuna via the JK Negishi Line) KK Keikyu Main Line (Keikyū Higashi-kanagawa)	Kanagawa-ku, Yokohama	Kanagawa
JH14	Ōguchi	大口	2.2	2.2	｜
JH15	Kikuna	菊名	2.6	4.8	●	TY Tōkyū Tōyoko Line	Kōhoku-ku, Yokohama
JH16	Shin-Yokohama	新横浜	1.3	6.1	●	Tokaido Shinkansen SH Tōkyū Shin-Yokohama Line (SH01) Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line (SO52) Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line (B25)
JH17	Kozukue	小机	1.7	7.8	｜
JH18	Kamoi	鴨居	3.1	10.9	●		Midori-ku, Yokohama
JH19	Nakayama	中山	2.6	13.5	●	Yokohama Municipal Subway Green Line (G01)
JH20	Tōkaichiba	十日市場	2.4	15.9	｜
JH21	Nagatsuta	長津田	2.0	17.9	●	DT Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line KD Kodomonokuni Line
JH22	Naruse	成瀬	2.3	20.2	｜		Machida	Tokyo
JH23	Machida	町田	2.7	22.9	●	OH Odakyu Odawara Line
JH24	Kobuchi	古淵	2.8	25.7	｜		Minami-ku, Sagamihara	Kanagawa
JH25	Fuchinobe	淵野辺	2.7	28.4	｜		Chūō-ku, Sagamihara
JH26	Yabe	矢部	0.8	29.2	｜
JH27	Sagamihara	相模原	1.8	31.0	●
JH28	Hashimoto	橋本	2.8	33.8	●	■ Sagami Line KO Keio Sagamihara Line	Midori-ku, Sagamihara
JH29	Aihara	相原	1.9	35.7	●		Machida	Tokyo
JH30	Hachiōji-Minamino	八王子みなみ野	2.9	38.6	●		Hachiōji
JH31	Katakura	片倉	1.4	40.0	●	KO Keiō Takao Line (Keiō-Katakura)
JH32	Hachiōji	八王子	2.6	42.6	●	■ Chūō Main Line JC Chūō Line (Rapid) ■Hachiko Line KO Keio Line (Keiō-Hachiōji)

Rolling stock

Local and Rapid services

Yokohama Line E233-6000 series EMU, October 2020

• E233-6000 series 8-car EMUs (since February 2014)^[8]

Former

• 
  72 series EMU, July 1984
• 
  103 series EMU at Fuchinobe Station, circa 1988
• 
  A Yokohama Line 205 series EMU, March 2007
• 
  Sagami Line 205-500 series EMU, November 2021
• 
  Sagami Line E131-500 series EMU, November 2021

• 72 series
• 103 series (from 2 October 1972 until 26 February 1989)
• 205 series 8-car EMUs (1988 to August 2014)

Sagami Line through services

• 205-500 series 4-car EMUs (from 16 March 1991 until 25 February 2022)^[9]
• E131-500 series 4-car EMUs (from 18 November 2021 until 11 March 2022)^[10]

8-car 205 series EMU trains were introduced in 1988.^[11] In these sets, the second car from the Higashi-Kanagawa end had six pairs of doors on each side to allow rapid boarding and disembarking during peak periods. The last 205 series set on the Yokohama Line ran on 23 August 2014.^[12]

References

1. "平成27年 大都市交通センサス 首都圏報告書" (PDF). P.92. 国土交通省.
2. Saka, Masayuki (August 2014). 東京メガループ 車両・路線の沿革と現況 [Tokyo Megaloop: History and current situation of trains and line]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 43, no. 364. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 28–39.
3. Aizawa, Masao (1996). Hamasen chimei arekore yokohama-hen. 230 Club Shinbunsha. ISBN 978-4-931353-24-4.
4. "横浜線開業１００周年～その２： 開業から現在までの他線との接続の歴史". Japan Railfan Magazine. Vol. 49, no. 574. February 2009. pp. 98–99.
5. "⾸都圏エリアへ 「駅ナンバリング」を導⼊します" [Introduce “station numbering” to the Tokyo metropolitan area] (PDF). jreast.co.jp (in Japanese). 6 April 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 December 2022. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
6. Kusamachi, Yoshikazu (7 April 2016). "JA・JK・JT・AKB…JR東日本、首都圏で駅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.
7. "２０２２年３月ダイヤ改正について（八王子支社）" [March 2022 timetable revision, Hachioji Branch] (PDF) (in Japanese). 17 December 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 11 March 2022. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
8. "E233系6000番台が営業運転を開始" [E233-6000 series enter revenue service]. Japan Railfan Magazine (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 17 February 2014. Archived from the original on 3 October 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2014.
9. "横浜線開業１００周年～その１： バトンタッチしてきた車両たち". Japan Railfan Magazine. Vol. 49, no. 574. February 2009. pp. 94–97.
10. "相模線Ｅ131 系営業運転開始について" [About the entry of service of the Sagami Line E131 series] (PDF). Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). 17 September 2021. Archived (PDF) from the original on 20 November 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2022.
11. "JR東日本 横浜線にE233系6000番代を投入" [JR East to introduce E233-6000 series on Yokohama Line]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 42, no. 356. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. December 2013. p. 60.
12. "横浜線用の205系が営業運転を終了" [End of 205 series revenue operations on Yokohama Line]. Japan Railfan Magazine Online (in Japanese). Japan: Koyusha Co., Ltd. 24 August 2014. Archived from the original on 15 April 2021. Retrieved 15 March 2022.

External links

• JR East website