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The Tōyoko Line (東横線, Tōyoko-sen) is a major railway line connecting Tokyo to Yokohama. The line is owned and operated by the private railway operator Tokyu Corporation . The name of the line, Tōyoko (東横), is a combination of the first characters of Tō kyō ( 東 京) and Yoko hama ( 横 浜), and is the main line of the Tokyu ...
Japan's largest population centers are all along this route: Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, and Kobe. Since construction of the line, these centers have since grown to occupy an ever more dominant role in the country's government, financial, manufacturing, and cultural life. [1]
Other situations include quadruple-track sections at the confluence of two distinct double-track lines, such as the Ōsaka Uehommachi – Fuse quadruple-track section of the Kintetsu network in central Ōsaka, officially designated as part of the Osaka Line but actually two lines (the Osaka Line and Nara Line) sharing a single right-of-way west ...
Public transport within Greater Tokyo is dominated by the world's most extensive urban rail network (as of May 2014, the article Tokyo rail list lists 158 lines, 48 operators, 4,714.5 km of operational track and 2,210 stations [although stations are recounted for each operator]) of suburban trains and subways run by a variety of operators, with ...
The Sōtetsu–JR Link Line is a section of the Eastern Kanagawa Rail Link project, built by the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (JRTT). It connects the Sōtetsu Main Line to the JR East Saikyō Line, via the tracks of the Sōtetsu Shin-Yokohama Line and the Tōkaidō Freight Line.
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.
The Keikyu Main Line (京急本線, Keikyū-honsen) is a railway line in Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keikyu.The line connects the Tokyo wards of Minato, Shinagawa, Ōta, and the Kanagawa municipalities of Kawasaki, Yokohama and Yokosuka.
The predecessor for the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines was originally conceived at the end of the 1930s as a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge dangan ressha (bullet train) between Tokyo and Shimonoseki, which would have taken nine hours to cover the nearly 1,000-kilometer (620 mi) distance between the two cities.