Kitayama Rail Pages
JR Nanao line and Noto Railway Nanao line


Lines on this page
Railway Line Linetype
JR West NanaoJR railway
Noto NanaoNon JR railway
Noto NotoCLOSEDNon JR railway

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

Nanao 七尾線 1067 mm     1500V DC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Nanao Ishikawa
Kanazawa
Opened1898-1900Tsubata - Nanao
1925Nanao - Wakuraonsen
TracksSingle track 
Maximum speed100 km/h 
Between Nanao and Wakura-onsen, the local traffic is provided by Noto Railway trains (see the section below).
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Kanazawa
0.0 Kanazawa-shi Ishikawa
Tsubata JR West: Hokuriku Hon 11.5 Tsubata-machi Ishikawa
Unoke
20.3 Kahoku-shi
Takamatsu
25.9 Kahoku-shi
Hakui
41.2 Hakui-shi
Nanao
65.9 Nanao-shi
Wakuraonsen Noto: Nanao 71.0 Nanao-shi

Traffic pattern The traffic pattern was accurate at: Nov 1, 2011
TypeNameOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day
Fastest
train
Average
speed
Limited Express
Tokkyū
特急
Thunderbird
サンダーバード
Ōsaka - Kyōto - Kanazawa - Nanao - Wakura-onsen43h5387 km/h
Shirasagi
しらさぎ
Nagoya - Maibara - Kanazawa - Nanao - Wakura-onsen13h5584 km/h
Hakutaka
はくたか
Echigo-Yuzawa - Naoetsu - Kanazawa - Nanao - Wakura-onsen13h4788 km/h
Local
Futsū
普通

Kanazawa - Nanao251h2049 km/h
Kanazawa - Takamatsu136 min43 km/h


Noto Noto Tetsudō     Noto Railway
Largest owner: Ishikawa prefecture (33.6%)

Nanao のと鉄道七尾線 1067 mm     Non-electric
You can find a Kitayama Rail Map for this line on this page:
Nanao
Opened1928 - 1932
TracksSingle track
Originally a part of JNR Nanao line. When the section Nanao - Wakura-onsen was electrified in 1991, the rest of the line was transferred to Noto Railway.
Between Nanao and Wakura-onsen is the JR Nanao line used.
The section Anamizu - Wajima closed April 1, 2001.
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Nanao
0.0 Nanao-shi Ishikawa
Wakuraonsen JR West: Nanao 5.1 Nanao-shi Ishikawa
Tatsuruhama
8.6 Nanao-shi
Notonakajima
16.3 Nanao-shi
Anamizu Noto: Noto 33.1 Anamizu-machi

Wajima
53.5 Wajima-shi

Traffic pattern The traffic pattern was accurate at: Apr 8, 2011
TypeOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day
Fastest
train
Average
speed
Local
Futsū
普通
Nanao - Wakura-onsen - Anamizu1639 min51 km/h
Nanao - Wakura-onsen - Notonakajima119 min51 km/h


Noto 1067 mm     Non-electric
Opened1959 - 1964as JNR line
ClosedApril 1, 2005 
Owner change1988to Noto Railway
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Map Map Anamizu Noto: Nanao 0.0 Anamizu-machi Ishikawa
Map Map Suzu
57.4 Suzu-shi
Map Map Takojima
61.0 Suzu-shi


This page is updated Nov 1, 2011