Ōfunato Line
| Ōfunato Line | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 KiHa 100 DMU at Kesennuma Station, October 2006 | |||
| Overview | |||
| Locale | Iwate Prefecture | ||
| Termini | |||
| Stations | 25 | ||
| Service | |||
| Type | Heavy rail | ||
| Operator(s) | East Japan Railway Company | ||
| Technical | |||
| Line length | 105.7 km (65.7 mi) | ||
| Track gauge | 1067 | ||
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The Ōfunato Line (大船渡線, Ōfunato-sen) is a local rail line in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It runs as a spur line from Ichinoseki Station in Ichinoseki to Sakari Station in Ōfunato, on the coast. It connects with the Kesennuma Line at Kesennuma Station and the privately owned Sanriku Railway's Minami-Riasu Line at Sakari Station in Ōfunato.
Operations
As of April 2005, there were 27 services daily using this line (14 eastbound, 13 westbound).
The line was damaged by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on 11 March 2011. In January 2012, services resumed on the western 62.0 km portion of the route between Ichinoseki and Kesennuma. Eastbound service consists of ten local trains and one Super Dragon rapid service. Westbound service consists of nine local trains and one rapid.
The eastern section between Kesennuma and Sakari remains closed, and in February 2012, JR East officially proposed that this section of the line be scrapped and the right-of-way used as a bus rapid transit (BRT) route.[1]
Station list
| Station name | Japanese | Distance from previous station (km) |
Distance from Ichinoseki (km) | Super Dragon (Rapid) | Transfers | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ichinoseki | 一ノ関 | - | 0.0 | ● | Tōhoku Main Line, Tōhoku Shinkansen | Ichinoseki, Iwate |
| Mataki | 真滝 | 5.7 | 5.7 | | | ||
| Rikuchū-Kanzaki | 陸中門崎 | 8.0 | 13.7 | | | ||
| Iwanoshita | 岩ノ下 | 3.8 | 17.5 | | | ||
| Rikuchū-Matsukawa | 陸中松川 | 3.8 | 21.3 | | | ||
| Geibikei | 猊鼻渓 | 2.0 | 23.3 | ● | ||
| Shibajyuku | 柴宿 | 2.8 | 26.1 | | | ||
| Surisawa | 摺沢 | 4.5 | 30.6 | ● | ||
| Senmaya | 千厩 | 9.2 | 39.8 | ● | ||
| Konashi | 小梨 | 3.6 | 43.4 | | | ||
| Yagoshi | 矢越 | 4.2 | 47.6 | | | ||
| Orikabe | 折壁 | 2.1 | 49.7 | | | ||
| Niitsuki | 新月 | 5.6 | 55.3 | | | ||
| Kesennuma | 気仙沼 | 6.7 | 62.0 | ● | Kesennuma Line | Kesennuma, Miyagi |
| Shishiori-Karakuwa | 鹿折唐桑 | 2.2 | 64.2 | ● | ||
| Kami-Shishiori | 上鹿折 | 5.3 | 69.5 | ● | ||
| Rikuzen-Yahagi | 陸前矢作 | 10.0 | 79.5 | ● | Rikuzen-Takata, Iwate | |
| Takekoma | 竹駒 | 3.0 | 82.5 | ● | ||
| Rikuzen-Takata | 陸前高田 | 2.9 | 85.4 | ● | ||
| Wakinosawa | 脇ノ沢 | 2.9 | 88.3 | ● | ||
| Otomo | 小友 | 4.5 | 92.8 | ● | ||
| Hosoura | 細浦 | 4.3 | 97.1 | ● | Ōfunato, Iwate | |
| Shimofunato | 下船渡 | 3.1 | 100.2 | ● | ||
| Ōfunato | 大船渡 | 2.9 | 103.1 | ● | ||
| Sakari | 盛 | 2.6 | 105.7 | ● | Minami-Riasu Line |
References
- ^ "被災２路線、廃止しバス専用道提案へ ＪＲ東、岩手県に". The Asahi Shimbun Digital (in Japanese). Japan: The Asahi Shimbun Company. 8 February 2012. Retrieved 11 March 2012.
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