Chōkai Sanroku Line

Chōkai Sanroku Line

at Ugo-Honjō Station
Overview
Type Heavy rail
Locale Akita Prefecture
Termini Ugo-Honjō
Yashima
Stations 12
Operation
Opened 1922
Operator(s) Yuri Kōgen Tetsudō
Technical
Line length 23.0 km
Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Operating speed 65km/h (40mph)

The Chōkai Sanroku Line (鳥海山ろく線 Chōkai Sanroku-sen, "Chōkai Submontane Line") is a Japanese railway line in Akita Prefecture in northern Japan, with all station located within the city of Yurihonjō. This is the only railway line of Yuri Kōgen Railway (由利高原鉄道 Yuri Kōgen Tetsudō).

History

On August 1, 1922, the privately owned Yokote Railway Company (横手鉄道 Yokote Tetsudō) completed its West Line, connecting Ugo-Honjō with Maegō over 11.6 rail kilometers, and renamed itself the Yokojō Railway Company (横荘鉄道 Yokojō Tetsudō). The line was nationalized on September 1, 1937 becoming the Japanese Government Railway (JGR) Yashima Line (矢島 Yashima sen) and the line was extended by an additional 4.1 kilometers to Nishitakisawa by December 15 of the same year. The line was further extended an additional 7.3 kilometers to its present terminus at Yashima by October 21, 1938.

The JGR became the Japanese National Railways (JNR) after World War 2. All scheduled freight services were discontinued from March 10, 1981. On October 10, 1985, the operations of the former Yashima line were taken over by the newly created third sector (in Japanese sense) Yuri Kōgen Railroad.

Proposed connecting line

Basic data

Stations

Station Japanese Distance between
stations (km)
Distance
(km)
Ugo-Honjō 羽後本荘 - 0.0
Yakushidō 薬師堂 2.2 2.2
Koyoshi 子吉 2.3 4.5
Ayukawa 鮎川 2.9 7.4
Kurosawa 黒沢 2.1 9.5
Magarisawa 曲沢 0.8 10.3
Maegō 前郷 1.4 11.7
Kubota 久保田 1.9 13.6
Nishitakisawa 西滝沢 2.1 15.7
Yoshizawa 吉沢 1.4 17.1
Kawabe 川辺 3.0 20.1
Yashima 矢島 2.9 23.0

See also

References

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

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