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The Yokosuka Line (Japanese: 横須賀線, 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.
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.
The line runs between Shin-Yokohama and Hiyoshi, with one intermediate station at Shin-tsunashima, adjacent to Tsunashima on the Tōkyū Tōyoko Line. Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line trains run through service with Tōkyū, Tokyo Metro, and Toei Subway Lines via Shin-Yokohama. Shin-Yokohama Station is jointly operated by Tōkyū and Sōtetsu.
Shin-Yokohama Station [a] (新横浜駅, Shin-yokohama-eki) is a major interchange railway station in Yokohama, Japan, jointly operated by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), East Japan Railway Company (JR East), Yokohama City Transportation Bureau, Sagami Railway (Sotetsu), and Tokyu Railways (Tokyu).
Data is broken down at the line level, then rolled up for each specific railway operator. The total station count for each operator is a "unique station" count—an interchange or transfer station between two lines operated by the same company is counted as a single station. As a result, summing together the station counts for all of the lines ...
Yokohama Station (横浜駅, Yokohama-eki) is a major interchange railway station in Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan. It is the busiest station in Kanagawa Prefecture and the fifth-busiest in the world as of 2013, [ 1 ] serving 760 million passengers a year.
The station numbers for the Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line's Shin-Yokohama station was revealed on 16 September 2022. [ 5 ] As of November 2022, various trainsets from Sōtetsu, Tōkyū, Tokyo Metro, Toei, and Tōbu have been conducting tests along the now completed segment of this line and the Tōkyū Shin-Yokohama Line between Hiyoshi and Hazawa ...
The trains have a maximum design speed of 275 km/h (170 mph), [8] but operate at a maximum speed of 260 km/h (160 mph) on the Hokuriku Shinkansen, limited to 240 km/h (150 mph) on the Jōetsu Shinkansen tracks between Omiya and Takasaki, and to 110 km/h (70 mph) on the Tohoku Shinkansen tracks between Tokyo and Omiya. [2]