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MIR 首都圏新都市鉄道  Shutoken Shintoshi Tetsudō     Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company

Tsukuba Express つくばエクスプレス 1067 mm     
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Oyama
NW Chiba
Kashiwa
Yashio Mabashi Ayase Kita-Senju
Ueno Akihabara
Traction1500V DCAkihabara - Moriya
20 kV 50 Hz ACMoriya - Tsukuba
Opened2005TracksDouble track
The vehicles used for the trains to Tsukuba are dual-mode trains, e.g. both 1500V DC and 20000V AC. The reason for not using 1500V DC on the Moriya - Tsukuba section is that it would disturb geomagnetic measurements at the Japan Metrological Agency's labratory near the line.
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Map Map Akihabara Tōkyō Metro: Hibiya, JR East: Keihin-Tōhoku, JR East: Yamanote,
JR East: Sōbu Hon (Ochanomiya - Kinshichō), JR East: Tōhoku Hon (Tōkyō - Kuroiso) 		0.0 Tōkyō : Chiyoda-ku Tōkyō
Map Map Shin-Okachimachi TOEI: Ōedo 1.6 Tōkyō : Taitō-ku
Map Map Minami-Senju Tōkyō Metro: Hibiya, JR East: Jōban 5.7 Tōkyō : Arakawa-ku
Map Map Kita-Senju Tōkyō Metro: Hibiya, Tōkyō Metro: Chiyoda, Tōbu: Isesaki,
JR East: Jōban 		7.6 Tōkyō : Adachi-ku
Map Map Yashio
15.7 Yashio-shi Saitama
Map Map Misato-chūō
19.3 Misato-shi
Map Map Minami-Nagareyama JR East: Musashino 22.1 Nagareyama-shi Chiba
Map Map Nagareyama-Ōtakanomori Tōbu: Noda 26.5 Nagareyama-shi
Map Map Kashiwa-Tanaka
32.0 Kashiwa-shi
Map Map Moriya Kantō: Jōsō 37.7 Moriya-shi Ibaraki
Map Map Mirai-daira
44.3 Tsukubamirai-shi
Map Map Tsukuba
58.3 Tsukuba-shi

Traffic pattern The traffic pattern was accurate at: Jun 17, 2011
TypeOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day		Daytime
frequency		Fastest
train		Average
speed
Rapid
Kaisoku
快速 		Akihabara - Tsukuba32Every 30 min42 min83 km/h
Semi-Rapid
Kukan kaisoku
区間快速 		Akihabara - Tsukuba50Every 30 min52 min67 km/h
Akihabara - Moriya3
36 min63 km/h
Local
Futsū
普通 		Akihabara - Tsukuba23
57 min61 km/h
Akihabara - Moriya92
40 min57 km/h
Akihabara - Yashio5
19 min50 km/h
Yashio - Tsukuba1
38 min67 km/h
Moriya - Tsukuba2
16 min77 km/h

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This page is updated Jun 18, 2011