Kitayama Rail Pages
Hakubi line


JR West 西日本旅客鉄道  Nishi Nippon Ryokaku Tetsudō     West Japan Railway Company

Hakubi 伯備線 1067 mm     1500V DC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: North Chūgoku
Kurashiki
Opened1919 - 1928    
TracksDouble trackKurashiki - Bitchū-TakahashiTracksSingle trackIshiga - Niimi
Single trackBitchū-Takahashi - IkuraDouble trackNiimi - Nunohara
Double trackIkura - IshigaSingle trackNunohara - Hōki-Daisen
Mapion Major stations Connecting lines Km City Prefecture
Kurashiki JR West: Sanyō Hon, Mizushima Rinkai: Mizushima Hon [Kurashikishi] 0.0 Kurashiki-shi Okayama
Kiyone Ibara: Ibara 7.4 Sōja-shi
Sōja JR West: Kibi 10.7 Sōja-shi
Bitchū-Takahashi
34.0 Takahashi-shi
Ikura
55.2 Niimi-shi
Ishiga
59.7 Niimi-shi
Niimi JR West: Kishin 64.4 Niimi-shi
Nunohara
68.3 Niimi-shi
Bitchū-Kōjiro JR West: Geibi 70.8 Niimi-shi
Hōki-Daisen JR West: Sanin Hon 138.4 Yonago-shi Tottori

Traffic pattern
In addition to the trafficpattern shown below, Hakubi line is used by:
Ibara railway trains between Kiyone and Sōja
Geibi line trains between Niimi and Bitchū-Kōjiro.


The traffic pattern shown does not include all details and could change at any time.
TypeNameOrigin - Major stops - DestinationFrequencyFastest
train
Average
speed
Night LEXSunrise Izumo Tōkyo - Hamamatsu - Himeji - Okayama - Kurashiki - Niimi - (Hōki-Daisen) - Matsue - Izumoshi
Runs together with LEX Sunrise Seto Tōkyō - Okayama
1/night11h5880 km/h
LEXYakumo Okayama - Kurashiki - Niimi - (Hōki-Daisen) - Yonago - Sanin line - Matsue - Izumoshi15/day
1/hour
2h5377 km/h

Frequency per section
For local trains and other train types listed below, the origin/destination-relations are not shown; only frequency per section.
SectionFrequencyFastest
train
SectionFrequencyFastest
train
Kurashiki - Bitchū-Takahashi31/day34 minBitchū-Takahashi - Niimi15/day33 min
Niimi - Shōyama8/day37 minShōyama - Hōki-Daisen
All trains to Yonago / Izumoshi / Nishi-Izumoshi
11/day48 min


This page is updated Oct 17, 2009