Odakyū Odawara Line

Odakyū Odawara Line
Odakyū Odawara Line
	An Odakyu 50000 series Romancecar VSE limited express
Overview
Owner	Odakyu Electric Railway
Locale	Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture
Termini	Shinjuku; Odawara;
Stations	47
Website	http://www.odakyu.jp/
Service
Type	Commuter rail
Daily ridership	1,493,451 (daily, 2010)
History
Opened	1927
Technical
Line length	82.5 km (51.3 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC
Operating speed	110 km/h (70 mph)
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The Odakyu Odawara Line (小田急小田原線, Odakyū-Odawara-sen) is the main line of Japanese private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway. It extends 82.5 km from Shinjuku in central Tokyo through the southwest suburbs to the city of Odawara, the gateway to Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is a busy commuter line and is also known for its "Romancecar" limited express services. From Yoyogi-Uehara Station some trains continue onto the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and beyond to the East Japan Railway Company Joban Line.

Operation

Destinations are from Shinjuku unless noted. English abbreviations are tentative for this article.

Limited Express (特急, tokkyū): Collectively known as "Romancecar" services, there is an extra seat charge for limited express service. Trains bound for: Odawara; Katase-Enoshima on the Enoshima Line; Karakida on the Tama Line; Hakone-Yumoto on the Hakone Tozan Railway; and Gotemba on the Central Japan Railway Company Gotemba Line.
Rapid Express (快速急行, kaisoku kyūkō) (RE): No extra charge. Services are for Odawara and Fujisawa on the Odakyu Enoshima Line.
Express (急行, kyūkō) (E): Services are for Karakida and Shin-Matsuda.
Semi Express (準急, junkyū) (SE): Most services are for Odawara and Mukogaoka-yuen. Most services run through on the Chiyoda and Joban Lines.
Local (各駅停車, kakueki teisha): Most services for Hon-Atsugi; others to Odawara, through to Katase-Enoshima and the Tama and Hakone Tozan lines. Also service between Shin-Matsuda to Hakone-Yumoto
Commuter Express (通勤急行, tsūkin-kyūkō) (CE): All services operate in the weekday morning for Shinjuku from Karakida on the Odakyu Tama Line.
Commuter Semi Express (通勤準急, tsūkin-junkyū) (CS): All services operate from Hon-Atsugi to the Chiyoda Line during weekday mornings.

Stations

Notes:

See the Romancecar article for information on Odakyu Romancecar limited express services.
Local trains stop at every station.

Legend:

● - all trains stop at this station; ■ - some trains stop at this station;｜- all trains pass
"CS" - Commuter Semi Express; "CE" - Commuter Express "SE" - Semi-Express; "E" - Express; "RE" - Rapid Express

No.	Station	Japanese	Distance (km)		CS	CE	SE	E	RE	Transfers	Location
No.	Station	Japanese	Between stations	Total	CS	CE	SE	E	RE	Transfers	Location
	Shinjuku	新宿	-	0.0	To Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line	●	To Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line	●	●	JC Chūō Line (Rapid) JB Chūō-Sōbu Line JY Yamanote Line JA Saikyō Line JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line M Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line (M-08) E Toei Oedo Line (E-27) (Shinjuku-nishiguchi (E-01)) S Toei Shinjuku Line (S-01) Keio Line Keio New Line Seibu Shinjuku Line (Seibu-Shinjuku)	Shinjuku	Tokyo
	Minami-Shinjuku	南新宿	0.8	0.8		｜		｜	｜		Shibuya
	Sangūbashi	参宮橋	0.7	1.5		｜		｜	｜
	Yoyogi-Hachiman	代々木八幡	1.2	2.7		｜		｜	｜
Through to C Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and JL Jōban Line:					■ Commuter Semi Express (all trains): to Toride via Chiyoda Line and Joban Line ■ Local (some trains): to Toride via Chiyoda Line and Jōban Line ■ Semi Express (all trains): to Toride via Chiyoda Line and Joban Line ■ Express (some trains): to Toride via Chiyoda Line and Joban Line
	Yoyogi-Uehara	代々木上原	0.8	3.5	●	●	●	●	●	C Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line (C-01)
	Higashi-Kitazawa	東北沢	0.7	4.2	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Setagaya
	Shimo-Kitazawa	下北沢	0.7	4.9	●	●	●	●	●	Keio Inokashira Line
	Setagaya-Daita	世田谷代田	0.7	5.6	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
	Umegaoka	梅ヶ丘	0.7	6.3	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
	Gōtokuji	豪徳寺	0.7	7.0	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜	SG Tokyu Setagaya Line (Yamashita)
	Kyōdō	経堂	1.0	8.0	●	｜	●	■	｜
	Chitose-Funabashi	千歳船橋	1.2	9.2	｜	｜	●	｜	｜
	Soshigaya-Ōkura	祖師ヶ谷大蔵	1.4	10.6	｜	｜	●	｜	｜
	Seijōgakuen-Mae	成城学園前	1.0	11.6	●	●	●	●	｜
	Kitami	喜多見	1.1	12.7	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
	Komae	狛江	1.1	13.8	｜	｜	●	｜	｜		Komae
	Izumi-Tamagawa	和泉多摩川	0.6	14.4	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Komae
	Noborito	登戸	0.8	15.2	●	｜	●	●	●	JN Nambu Line	Tama-ku, Kawasaki	Kanagawa
	Mukōgaoka-Yūen	向ヶ丘遊園	0.6	15.8	●	●	●	●	｜
	Ikuta	生田	2.1	17.9	●	｜	●	｜	｜
	Yomiuri-Land-mae	読売ランド前	1.3	19.2	●	｜	●	｜	｜
	Yurigaoka	百合ヶ丘	1.3	20.5	●	｜	●	｜	｜		Asao-ku, Kawasaki
	Shin-Yurigaoka	新百合ヶ丘	1.0	21.5	●	●	●	●	●	Odakyu Tama Line (through to Karakida from Shinjuku/Chiyoda Line)
	Kakio	柿生	1.9	23.4	●	To Tama Line	●	｜	｜
	Tsurukawa	鶴川	1.7	25.1	●		●	｜	｜		Machida	Tokyo
	Tamagawagakuen-mae	玉川学園前	2.8	27.9	●		●	｜	｜
	Machida	町田	2.9	30.8	●		●	●	●	JH Yokohama Line
	Sagami-Ōno	相模大野	1.5	32.3	●		●	●	●	Odakyu Enoshima Line (through to Katase-Enoshima from Shinjuku/Machida)	Minami-ku, Sagamihara	Kanagawa
	Odakyū-Sagamihara	小田急相模原	2.4	34.7	●		●	｜	｜		Minami-ku, Sagamihara
	Sōbudai-mae	相武台前	2.2	36.9	●		●	｜	｜		Zama
	Zama	座間	2.3	39.2	●		●	｜	｜		Zama
	Ebina	海老名	3.3	42.5	●		●	●	●	Sagami Line Sotetsu Main Line	Ebina
	Atsugi	厚木	1.6	44.1	●		●	｜	｜	Sagami Line	Ebina
	Hon-Atsugi	本厚木	1.3	45.4	●		●	●	●		Atsugi
	Aikō-Ishida	愛甲石田	3.1	48.5	●		●	●	●		Atsugi
	Isehara	伊勢原	3.7	52.2	●		●	●	●		Isehara
	Tsurumaki-Onsen	鶴巻温泉	3.7	55.9				●	●		Hadano
	Tōkaidaigaku-mae	東海大学前	1.1	57.0				●	●
	Hadano	秦野	4.7	61.7				●	●
	Shibusawa	渋沢	3.9	65.6				●	●
	Shin-Matsuda	新松田	6.2	71.8				●	●	Gotemba Line (Matsuda)	Matsuda, Ashigarakami District
	Kaisei	開成	2.5	74.3				●	｜		Kaisei, Ashigarakami District
	Kayama	栢山	1.9	76.2				｜	｜		Odawara
	Tomizu	富水	1.6	77.8				｜	｜
	Hotaruda	螢田	1.4	79.2				｜	｜
	Ashigara	足柄	1.6	80.8				｜	｜
	Odawara	小田原	1.7	82.5				●	●	■ Hakone Tozan Line (through to Hakone-Yumoto) ■ Tokaido Shinkansen ■ Tokaido Main Line ■■ Shonan-Shinjuku Line ■ Izuhakone Railway Daiyūzan Line

History

The Odawara Express Railway Co. opened the entire line on April 1, 1927 in order to allow for the Emperor's family to travel on the line, though as duplication works were not completed until October that year, there was initial timetable and signalling issues. Although primarily intended as a passenger line, gravel began to be hauled in 1930.

In 1942, the company was forcibly merged by the government with Tokyu Corporation and the line was named the Tokyu Odawara Line. Tokyu was broken up in 1948 and the line was transferred to the newly founded Odakyu Electric Railway Co.

Through operation to the Hakone Tozan Railway's Hakone Tozan Line began in 1950 once dual gauge track was commissioned (the Hakone Tozan Line is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), the Odawara Line 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)). A connecting track was laid in 1955 to Matsuda Station on the Gotemba Line of the (then) Japanese National Railways, and limited express service through to the line started. To function as a bypass to central Tokyo, through service on the Eidan Subway (now Tokyo Metro) Chiyoda Line commenced in 1978 via Yoyogi-Uehara.

Increasing traffic volume since the 1970s led to plans being formed in 1985 for a track upgrading project on the Odawara Line, though land acquisition issues stalled major track expansion work until construction began in 2013;^[2] the project is being carried out between Yoyogi-Uehara and Mukōgaoka-Yūen, quadrupling the Odawara Line trackage^[3] and stacking the tracks underground, allowing for increased express services. Originally a viaduct was planned but this was changed to underground tracks, and work on the tunnel between Setagaya-Daita and Higashi-Kitazawa is ongoing. In March 2013, Odakyū announced that the construction is projected to continue until 2018.^[4]

Former connecting lines

Setagaya-Daita Station: A 1,067 mm gauge line electrified at 1,500 V DC operated to Shindaita on the Keio Inokashira Line between 1945 and 1952.^{[citation needed]}

References

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

^ Odakyu ridership in 2010 Train Media (sourced from Odakyu) Retrieved May 28, 2012.
^ Ministry of Finance Japan. "Examples of FILP-target Projects: Construction Projects of Private Rail Lines (Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (Construction Account))". Retrieved February 25, 2014.
^ Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency. "About JRTT: Urban Railways" (PDF). Retrieved February 25, 2014.
^ "小田急、代々木上原駅～梅ヶ丘駅間の複々線化で工事期間を2018年度まで延長" [Odakyu, extend the construction period until fiscal 2018 by a quadruple track between station and umegaoka station Yoyogi-Uehara]. March 14, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

External links

[ridership-1] Odakyu ridership in 2010 Train Media (sourced from Odakyu) Retrieved May 28, 2012.

[2] Ministry of Finance Japan. "Examples of FILP-target Projects: Construction Projects of Private Rail Lines (Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (Construction Account))". Retrieved February 25, 2014.

[3] Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency. "About JRTT: Urban Railways" (PDF). Retrieved February 25, 2014.

[4] "小田急、代々木上原駅～梅ヶ丘駅間の複々線化で工事期間を2018年度まで延長" [Odakyu, extend the construction period until fiscal 2018 by a quadruple track between station and umegaoka station Yoyogi-Uehara]. March 14, 2013. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

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