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Tōkaidō main line (JR East section)


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

Tōkaidō Hon (Tōkyō - Atami) 東海道本線 1067 mm     1500V DC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Iida - Fuji
Fuji-san
SE Kanagawa
Odawara Mishima
Hiratsuka Enoshima
Tōkyō city S Kawasaki - Haneda Yokohama Asano Fujisawa Ōfuna
Kamata Kawasaki Yokohama NE Kannai
Yotsuya Tōkyō station Roppongi Shinagawa Ōsaki Tachiaigawa
Opened1872 - 1925TracksDescribed below
The line Tōkyō - Atami is offically a part of Tōkaidō Hon line. However, the line consists of several services using their own tracks. They are:

Keihin-Tōhoku line has its own double track between Tōkyō and Yokohama and is the only service stopping at all stations along the line. (Marked in the Notes column as "KH"). Between Higashi-Kanagawa and Yokohama are the Keihin-Tōhoku tracks also used by Yokohama line trains.
Traffic pattern: Keihin-Tōhoku line and Yokohama line

Yamanote line has its own double track between Tōkyō and Shinagawa. On that section, it is only Yamanote (Marked in the Notes column as "Ya") and Keihin-Tōhoku services that stop at all stations.
Traffic pattern: Yamanote line.

Yokosuka line is a double track line running completly separate from the other services between Tōkyō and Ōfuna.
At Tōkyō station, it uses an underground station connected with Sōbu line, not the normal overground station.
Tōkyo - Shinagawa: Underground (the other services run overground), stopping only at Shimbashi.
Shinagawa - Tsurumi: Runs on a section of the Tōkaidō line called Hinkaku line, serving Nishi-Ōi and Shin-Kawasaki instead of Kawasaki. No platform at Tsurumi station.
Tsurumi - Ōfuna: Parallel with Tōkaido Hon tracks. Two stations are only served by Yokosuka trains (Notes: "Yo only")
Between Nishi-Ōi (on Hinkaku line) and Ōfuna is the Yokosuka line tracks also used by Shōnan-Shinjuku line service.
Traffic pattern: Yokosuka line and Shōnan-Shinjuku line

Tōkaido Hon line itself has a double track used by services as listed in the Traffic Pattern section below.

Tōkaido Freight line (Tōkaidō Kamotsu) is a double track line that runs from Tsurumi to Odawara. Between Tsurumi and Higashi-Totsuka (16.0 km) it has its own route, bypassing Yokohama, and between Higashi-Totsuka and Odawara it runs in parallel with the Tōkaido Hon tracks, but with platforms only at a few stations. The freight line tracks are used by a few non-stopping passenger services (4 southbound and 8 northbound/day).


MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmNotesCityPrefecture
Tōkyō Tōkyō Metro: Marunouchi (1), JR Central: Tōkaidō Shinkansen, JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku,
JR East: Sōbu Hon (Tōkyō - Chiba), JR East: Keiyō, JR East: Yamanote,
JR East: Yokosuka, JR East: Tōhoku Shinkansen, JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso)
0.0
Tōkyō : Chiyoda-ku Tōkyō
Yūrakuchō Tōkyō Metro: Yūrakuchō 0.8 Ya+KH only Tōkyō : Chiyoda-ku
Shimbashi TOEI: Asakusa, Yurikamome: Yurikamome, Tōkyō Metro: Ginza,
JR East: Yamanote, JR East: Yokosuka
1.9
Tōkyō : Minato-ku
Hamamatsuchō TOEI: Asakusa [Daimon], TOEI: Ōedo [Daimon], Tōkyō Monorail: Tōkyō Monorail Haneda 3.1 Ya+KH only Tōkyō : Minato-ku
Tamachi
4.6 Ya+KH only Tōkyō : Minato-ku
Shinagawa JR Central: Tōkaidō Shinkansen, JR East: Yamanote, JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Hinkaku line),
JR East: Yokosuka, Keikyū: Hon
6.8
Tōkyō : Minato-ku
Ōimachi TWR: Rinkai, Tōkyū: Ōimachi 9.2 KH only Tōkyō : Shinagawa-ku
Kamata Tōkyū: Ikegami, Tōkyū: Tōkyū Tamagawa 14.4 KH only Tōkyō : Ōta-ku
Kawasaki JR East: Nambu 18.2
Kawasaki-shi Kanagawa
Tsurumi JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Hinkaku line), JR East: Tsurumi 21.7 KH only Yokohama-shi
Higashi-Kanagawa JR East: Yokohama 27.0 KH only Yokohama-shi
Yokohama Sōtetsu: Hon, Tōkyū: Tōyoko, Yokohama Subway: Blue - Line 3,
Yokohama Kōsoku: Minatomirai21, JR East: Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, JR East: Tōkaidō Hon (Hinkaku line),
JR East: Negishi, JR East: Yokosuka, Keikyū: Hon
28.8
Yokohama-shi
Hodogaya
31.8 Yo only Yokohama-shi
Higashi-Totsuka JR East: Shōnan-Shinjuku Line 36.7 Yo only Yokohama-shi
Totsuka Yokohama Subway: Blue - Line 1, JR East: Shōnan-Shinjuku Line 40.9
Yokohama-shi
Ōfuna Shōnan Monorail: Enoshima, JR East: Shōnan-Shinjuku Line, JR East: Negishi,
JR East: Yokosuka
46.5
Kamakura-shi
Fujisawa Enoden: Enoshima dentetsu, Odakyū: Enoshima 51.1
Fujisawa-shi
Chigasaki JR East: Sagami 58.6
Chigasaki-shi
Hiratsuka
63.8
Hiratsuka-shi
Kōzu JR Central: Gotemba 77.7
Odawara-shi
Odawara Odakyū: Odawara, Hakone Tozan: Tetsudō, Izu Hakone: Daiyūzan,
JR Central: Tōkaidō Shinkansen
83.9
Odawara-shi
Atami JR Central: Tōkaidō Shinkansen, JR Central: Tōkaidō Hon (Atami - Maibara), JR East: Itō 104.6
Atami-shi Shizuoka

Traffic pattern
The traffic pattern below shows only trains running on Tōkaidō Hon or Tōkaido Freight line tracks. Trains running on Keihin-Tōhoku, Yamanote or Yokosuka line tracks are shown at those line's own pages.
The traffic pattern was accurate at: Nov 9, 2009
TypeNameOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day
Fastest
train
Average
speed
Sleeper Limited Express
Shindai tokkyū
寝台特急
Sunrise Seto / Sunrise Izumo
サンライズ瀬戸 / サンライズ出雲
Tōkyo - Yokohama - Atami - Hamamatsu - (no stops) - Himeji - Okayama - Takamatsu (Sunrise Seto) / Izumo (Sunrise Izumo)1

Limited Express
Tokkyū
特急
Odoriko Tōkyō - Yokohama - Atami - Itō - Izukyū-Shimoda
Two trains have a section detached at Atami for Mishima - Shuzenji
32h4362 km/h
Superview Odoriko Tōkyō - Yokohama - Atami - Itō - Izukyū-Shimoda32h2967 km/h
Shinjuku - Yokohama - Atami - Itō - Izukyū-Shimoda12h4762 km/h
Special Rapid
Tokubetsu kaisoku
特別快速

Takasaki - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Odawara72h5267 km/h
Rapid
Kaisoku
快速

Maebashi - Takasaki - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Odawara13h4454 km/h
Maebashi - Takasaki - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Hiratsuka13h2451 km/h
Takasaki - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Odawara13h2257 km/h
Takasaki - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Kōzu73h1059 km/h
Fukuya - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Odawara13h0254 km/h
Kagohara - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Odawara22h4558 km/h
Kagohara - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Kōzu32h3260 km/h
Kagohara - Takasaki line - Shōnan-Shinjuku line - Ōfuna - Hiratsuka102h1661 km/h
Acty Tōkyō - Kawasaki - Yokohama - Odawara - Atami71h3467 km/h
Tōkyō - Kawasaki - Yokohama - Odawara21h1270 km/h
Commuter Rapid
Tsūkin kaisoku
通勤快速

Tōkyō - Ōfuna - Odawara31h1072 km/h
Local
Futsū
普通
Home Liner Odawara Shinjuku - Tōkaido Freight - Fujisawa - Odawara
Called Ōhayo Liner Shinjuku in opposite direction
31h2067 km/h
Shōnan Liner Tōkyō - Shinagawa - Ōfuna - Odawara81h1171 km/h
Tōkyō - Shinagawa - Tōkaido Freight - Fujisawa - Odawara11h1469 km/h

Tōkyō - Yokohama - Atami - Shizuoka13h2353 km/h
Tōkyō - Yokohama - Atami - Numazu92h0859 km/h
Tōkyō - Yokohama - Atami - Itō92h1454 km/h
Tōkyō - Yokohama - Atami381h4063 km/h
Tōkyō - Yokohama - Odawara311h2063 km/h
Tōkyō - Yokohama - Kōzu - Gotemba line - Yamakita11h4952 km/h
Tōkyō - Yokohama - Kōzu91h1562 km/h
Tōkyō - Yokohama - Hiratsuka1258 min66 km/h
Shinagawa - Yokohama - Atami21h4059 km/h
Shinagawa - Yokohama - Odawara21h1165 km/h
Hiratsuka - Atami244 min56 km/h


This page is updated Jan 3, 2012