Toyama Chihō Railway Main Line

Toyama Main Line Terminal Station

The Toyama Chihō Railway Main Line (富山地方鉄道本線, Toyama Chihō Tetsudō Hon-sen) is a Japanese railway line that connects Dentetsu-Toyama Station in Toyama, Toyama with Unazuki Onsen Station in Kurobe, Toyama. It is owned and run by Toyama Chihō Railway.

Station list

Name	Japanese	Distance (km)	Express	Rapid Express	Limited Express	Connections	Location
Dentetsu-Toyama	電鉄富山	0.0	●	●	●	Takayama Main Line (Toyama) Toyama Light Rail Toyamakō Line (Toyama) Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line (Toyama)	Toyama	Toyama
Inarimachi	稲荷町	1.6	▲	●	|	Toyama Chihō Railway Fujikoshi Line
Shinjō-Tanaka	新庄田中	2.5	▲	↑	|
Higashi-Shinjō	東新庄	3.6	▲	↑	|
Etchū-Ebara	越中荏原	4.7	▲	↑	|
Etchū-Sangō	越中三郷	7.0	▲	↑	|
Etchū-Funahashi	越中舟橋	8.5	▲	↑	|		Funahashi
Terada	寺田	9.8	●	●	●	Toyama Chihō Railway Tateyama Line	Tateyama
Etchū-Izumi	越中泉	10.5	|	↑	|
Ainoki	相ノ木	11.3	|	↑	|		Kamiichi
Shin-Ainoki	新相ノ木	12.1	|	↑	|
Kamiichi	上市	13.3	●	●	●
Shin-Miyakawa	新宮川	15.1	▲	▲	|
Naka-Kazumi	中加積	17.1	●	●	|		Namerikawa
Nishi-Kazumi	西加積	18.7	|	↑	|
Nishi-Namerikawa	西滑川	19.8	|	↑	|
Naka-Namerikawa	中滑川	20.6	●	●	●
Namerikawa	滑川	21.8	●	●	|	Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line
Hamakazumi	浜加積	23.2	|	↑	|
Hayatsukikazumi	早月加積	24.4	▲	▲	|
Etchū-Nakamura	越中中村	25.6	|	↑	|
Nishi-Uozu	西魚津	27.6	●	▲	|		Uozu
Dentetsu-Uozu	電鉄魚津	28.9	●	●	●
Shin-Uozu	新魚津	30.2	●	●	●	Ainokaze Toyama Railway Line (Uozu)
Kyōden	経田	32.9	●	●	|
Dentetsu-Ishida	電鉄石田	34.9	●	●	|		Kurobe
Dentetsu Kurobe	電鉄黒部	37.2	●	●	●
Higashi-Mikkaichi	東三日市	37.8	●	●	●
Ogyū	荻生	38.6	●	●	|
Nagaya	長屋	39.6	●	●	|
Shin-Kurobe	新黒部		|	|	|	Hokuriku Shinkansen (Kurobe-Unazukionsen)
Shitayama	舌山	41.0	●	●	|
Wakaguri	若栗	41.7	●	●	|
Tochiya	栃屋	42.8	●	●	|
Urayama	浦山	44.3	●	●	●
Oritateguchi	下立口	45.6	●	●	|
Oritate	下立	46.3	●	●	|
Aimoto	愛本	47.6	●	●	●
Uchiyama	内山	48.7	●	●	|
Otozawa	音沢	49.5	●	●	|
Unazuki Onsen	宇奈月温泉	53.3	●	●	●

History

The first section of what is now this line was opened by Tateyama Light Railway as a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge line between Gohyakkoku (on the Toyama Chiho Railway Tateyama Line) and Namerikawa in 1913.

The Kurobe Railway opened the Dentetsu Kurobe to Unazuki Onsen section as a 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge line between 1922 and 1923.

In 1932, the Toyama Electric Railway acquired the Tateyama Light Railway, and built a line from Dentetsu-Toyama to Namerikawa, regauging some of the original line to 1,067 mm gauge, and electrifying it at 1,500 V DC.

The Namerikawa to Dentetsu Kurobe section was opened between 1935 and 1936, and the Kurobe Railway was merged with the Toyama Electric Railway in 1943 to create the current company, with the electrification to Unazuki Onsen commissioned the same year.

CTC signalling was commissioned on the line between 1966 and 1967, and the Dentetsu-Toyama to Inarimachi section was double-tracked in 1969. Freight services ceased in 1983.

See also

• Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia.