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Shōnan-Shinjuku Line


JR East 東日本旅客鉄道  Higashi Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō     East Japan Railway

Shōnan-Shinjuku Line 湘南新宿ライン      
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Ōmiya Akabane Tōkyō city S Ōfuna
Kamata Kawasaki Yokohama NE
Itabashi Komagome Ikebukuro Higashi-Shinjuku Yoyogi Shibuya Meguro Ōsaki Hatanodai Tachiaigawa
The Shōnan-Shinjuku Line is the name of a train service serving the route Ōfuna - Yokohama - Ōsaki - Shibuya - Shinjuku - Ikebukuro - Akabane - Ōmiya. The traffic started in December 2001 and has been continously extended.
The line is not an official railway line - it runs along other lines, but in two places it makes short cuts using freight tracks that are not considered offical lines.
SectionLine / tracks used Comments
Ōfuna - Nishi-ŌiYokosuka Line tracks (Tōkaidō Hon)
Nishi-Ōi - Ōsaki* Tōkaido Hon freight tracks (not an official passenger line)Fares calculated over Shinagawa (5.6 km)
Ōsaki - IkebukuroYamanote Line freight tracks (also used by Seikyō Line and Narita Express)
Ikebukuro - Akabane* Yamanote Line and Tōhoku Hon Line freight tracks (more details below)Fares calculated via Akabane line (5.5 km)
Akabane - Ōmiya* Tōhoku Hon Line freight tracks
At the *-marked sections. the tracks are used only by Shōnan-Shinjuku Line. At the other sections, the tracks are shared with other lines.

Between Ikebukuro and Akabane, the line runs along Yamanote Line to Komagome, bypassing Tabata north of the station and then along the Utsunomiya Line tracks.

There are no passenger platforms at Tsurumi station for the Yokosuka Line tracks.

The distances Nishi-Ōi - Ōsaki and Ikebukuro - Akabane are not official distances.
Real line nameFrom - To
JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Tōkyō - Atami) Ōfuna - Tsurumi
JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Hinkaku line) Tsurumi - Nishi-Ōi
JR East: Yamanote Ōsaki - Ikebukuro
JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso) Akabane - Ōmiya
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Ōfuna Shōnan Monorail: Enoshima, JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Tōkyō - Atami), JR East: Negishi,
JR East: Yokosuka
0.0 Kamakura-shi Kanagawa
Totsuka Yokohama Subway: Blue - Line 1, JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Tōkyō - Atami) 5.6 Yokohama-shi
Higashi-Totsuka JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Tōkyō - Atami) 9.8 Yokohama-shi
Yokohama Sōtetsu: Hon, Tōkyū: Tōyoko, Yokohama Subway: Blue - Line 3,
Yokohama Kōsoku: Minatomirai21, JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku, JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Tōkyō - Atami),
JR East: Negishi, Keikyū: Hon
17.7 Yokohama-shi
Tsurumi
24.7 Yokohama-shi
Shin-Kawasaki
29.9 Kawasaki-shi
Musashi-Kosugi Tōkyū: Tōyoko, JR East: Nambu 32.6 Kawasaki-shi
Nishi-Ōi JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Hinkaku line), JR East: Yokosuka 39.0 Tōkyō : Shinagawa-ku Tōkyō
Ōsaki TWR: Rinkai, JR East: Saikyō, JR East: Yamanote 41.7 Tōkyō : Shinagawa-ku
Ebisu Tōkyō Metro: Hibiya, JR East: Saikyō, JR East: Yamanote 45.3 Tōkyō : Shibuya-ku
Shibuya Tōkyū: Den'en-toshi, Tōkyū: Tōyoko, Tōkyō Metro: Ginza,
Tōkyō Metro: Hanzōmon, Tōkyō Metro: Fukutoshin, JR East: Saikyō,
JR East: Yamanote, Keiō: Inokashira
46.9 Tōkyō : Shibuya-ku
Shinjuku Seibu: Shinjuku [Seibu Shinjuku], TOEI: Shinjuku, TOEI: Ōedo [Shinjuku-nishiguchi],
TOEI: Ōedo, Tōkyō Metro: Marunouchi (1), Odakyū: Odawara,
JR East: Saikyō, JR East: Chūō Hon (East), Keiō: Keiō,
Keiō: Keiō Shin [Shinsen-Shinjuku]
50.3 Tōkyō : Shinjuku-ku
Ikebukuro Seibu: Ikebukuro, Tōkyō Metro: Yūrakuchō, Tōkyō Metro: Marunouchi (1),
Tōkyō Metro: Fukutoshin, Tōbu: Tōjō Hon, JR East: Saikyō,
JR East: Yamanote, JR East: Akabane
55.1 Tōkyō : Toshima-ku
Akabane JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Akabane - Musashi-Urawa - Ōmiya), JR East: Saikyō, JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku,
JR East: Tōhoku Hon (via Oku), JR East: Akabane
64.6 Tōkyō : Kita-ku
Ōmiya Tōbu: Noda, JR East: Jōetsu Shinkansen, JR East: Takasaki,
JR East: Kawagoe, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Akabane - Musashi-Urawa - Ōmiya), JR East: Saikyō,
JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku, JR East: Tōhoku Shinkansen, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso),
Saitama Shin-toshi: Ina (Nyū Shatoru New Shuttle)
81.7 Saitama-shi Saitama

Traffic pattern The traffic pattern was accurate at: Oct 13, 2009
TypeNameOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day
Fastest
train
Average
speed
Limited Express
Tokkyū
特急
Akagi
あかぎ
Shinjuku - Ōmiya - Takasaki - Maebashi11h4467 km/h
Kinugawa
きぬがわ
Shinjuku - Ōmiya - Kurihashi - Tōbu Nikkō line - Tochigi - Shimo-Imaichi - Kinugawa-onsen12h0569 km/h
Narita Express Narita kūkō airport - Tōkyō - Shinagawa - Yamanote (freight) line - Shinjuku - Ōmiya21h5468 km/h
Narita kūkō airport - Tōkyō - Shinagawa - Yamanote (freight) line - Shinjuku - Ikebukuro111h2572 km/h
Narita kūkō airport - Tōkyō - Shinagawa - Yamanote (freight) line - Shinjuku - Takao12h1164 km/h
Narita kūkō airport - Tōkyō - Shinagawa - Yamanote (freight) line - Shinjuku71h2469 km/h
Nikkō
日光
Shinjuku - Ōmiya - Kurihashi - Tōbu Nikkō line - Tochigi - Tōbu-Nikkō11h5970 km/h
Spacia Kinugawa
スペーシアきぬがわ
Shinjuku - Ōmiya - Kurihashi - Tōbu Nikkō line - Tochigi - Shimo-Imaichi - Kinugawa-onsen22h0370 km/h
Superview Odoriko Izukyū-Shimoda- Itō - Atami - Yokohama - Shinjuku - Ikebukuro12h5860 km/h
Rapid
Kaisoku
快速
Moonlight Echigo
ムーンライトえちご
Shinjuku - Ōmiya - Takasaki - Nagaoka - Niigata
Seasonal night train - runs only during peak periods

5h4158 km/h

Odawara - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Takasaki - Maebashi13h4255 km/h
Odawara - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Takasaki33h2556 km/h
Odawara - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Kagohara12h5952 km/h
Kōzu - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Takasaki33h1358 km/h
Kōzu - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Kagohara72h3460 km/h
Hiratsuka - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Takasaki13h0755 km/h
Hiratsuka - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Kagohara92h1562 km/h
Zushi - Yokosuka line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Tōhoku line - Utsunomiya62h3963 km/h
Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Tōhoku line - Utsunomiya32h2367 km/h
Special Rapid
Tokubetsu kaisoku
特別快速

Odawara - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Takasaki72h5466 km/h
Hiratsuka - Tōkaidō line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Takasaki line - Takasaki12h4662 km/h
Local
Futsū
普通
Ohayō liner Shinjuku Odawara - Fujisawa - Shibuya - Shinjuku31h1273 km/h

Zushi - Yokosuka line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Tōhoku line - Utsunomiya52h4960 km/h
Zushi - Yokosuka line - Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Tōhoku line - Koganei132h2860 km/h
Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Tōhoku line - Utsunomiya22h4160 km/h
Ōfuna - Ōmiya - Tōhoku line - Koganei42h1661 km/h


This page is updated Jan 2, 2012