Kitayama Rail Pages
Kure line


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

Kure 呉線 1067 mm     1500V DC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Iwakuni - Hiroshima Fukuyama
Greater Hiroshima City
Hiroshima City
OpenedKaitaichi - Kure1903TracksSingle track
Kure - Mihara1930 - 1935
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Mihara JR West: Sanyō Shinkansen, JR West: Sanyō Hon 0.0 Mihara-shi Hiroshima
Takehara
25.3 Takehara-shi
Yasuura
44.2 Kure-shi
Hiro
60.2 Kure-shi
Aki-Aga
62.9 Kure-shi
Kure
67.0 Kure-shi
Saka
81.8 Saka-chō
Kaitaichi JR West: Sanyō Hon 87.0 Kaita-chō
Hiroshima
93.4 Hiroshima-shi Hiroshima

Traffic pattern
About half of the local trains continue beyond Hiroshima on either Kabe line or Sanyō line.
The traffic pattern was accurate at: Nov 15, 2011
TypeNameOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day
Fastest
train
Average
speed
Rapid
Kaisoku
快速
Akiji Liner
安芸路ライナー
Mihara - Kure - Hiroshima12h0844 km/h
Hiro - Kure - Hiroshima - Iwakuni11h4841 km/h
Hiro - Kure - Hiroshima944 min45 km/h
Setouchi Marine View
瀬戸内マリンビュー
Mihara - Kure - Hiroshima
Seasonal train
12h4235 km/h
Tsūkin (Commuter) Liner
通勤ライナー
Itozaki - Mihara - Kure - Hiroshima - Itsukaichi22h2345 km/h
Takahara - Kure - Hiroshima - Itsukaichi11h4645 km/h
Hiro - Kure - Hiroshima - Iwakuni21h3249 km/h
Hiro - Kure - Hiroshima147 min42 km/h
Local
Futsū
普通

Itozaki - Mihara - Kure - Hiroshima32h2141 km/h
Itozaki - Mihara - Hiro21h3340 km/h
Mihara - Kure - Hiroshima12h1841 km/h
Mihara - Kure11h3045 km/h
Mihara - Hiro101h1846 km/h
Yasuura - Kure - Hiroshima51h1340 km/h
Yasuura - Hiro123 min42 km/h
Hiro - Kure - Hiroshima2849 min41 km/h
Kure - Hiroshima843 min37 km/h
Saka - Hiroshima918 min39 km/h


This page is updated Nov 15, 2011