Tobu Skytree Line
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Tobu Skytree Line Line | |
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Overview | |
Owner | Tobu Railway |
Locale | Kantō |
Termini | |
Stations | 55 |
Service | |
Type | Commuter rail |
System | Tobu Railway |
History | |
Opened | May 12, 2012 |
Technical | |
Line length | 114.5 km (71.1 mi) |
Track gauge | 1067 |
Operating speed | 110 km/h (70 mph)* |
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The Tobu Skytree Line (
Descriptions
- Track
- quadruple: Tokyo Skytree − Hikifune 1.3 km, Kita-Senju − Kita-Koshigaya 18.9 km
- single: Kita-Senju − Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen 39.9 km
- double: the rest
- Length
- 114.5 km
Note that Oshiage Station is officially an extension or part of Tokyo Skytree. The double tracks between Oshiage and Hikifune are thus the third and fourth tracks of the Tokyo Skytree − Hikifune section.
Operation
Through trains
The Skytree Line has trains through to two lines of Tokyo Metro. One is the Hibiya Line connected at Kitasenju, with Local trains alone. The other is the Hanzōmon Line at Oshiage, with rapid trains of Tōbu. Beyond Shibuya, the terminus of Hanzōmon Line, nearly all trains go through to the Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line, down to the terminus Chūō-Rinkan.
To the north it has trains through the Yagan Railway to the Aizu Railway's Aizutajima Station.
Rapid service
Tobu operates several types of rapid service on this line.
Stops and operated sections are as of 2006.
- Local (
普通 , Futsū) (announced as各駅 停車 (Kakueki Teisha) or各 停 (kakutei) for short) (L) - Operated in separate three sections.
- Asakusa − Kita-Senju - Takenotsuka - Kita-Koshigaya - Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen - Minami-Kurihashi to complement Local, Section Semi-Express and Section Express
- Naka-Meguro of Hibiya Line − Kita-Senju − Takenotsuka - Tōbu-Dōbutsu Kōen - Minami-Kurihashi - Kita-Koshigaya - Kita-Kasukabe (for nighttime only).
- Kuki − Ōta. Connection with Express. Three per hour, with one between Kuki and Tatebayashi.
- Ōta − Isesaki. One per hour per direction, conductorless.
- Section Semi-Express (
区間 準急 , Kukan Junkyū) (SSE) - Between Asakusa and Tōbu-Dōbutsu Kōen, Kuki or Minami-Kurihashi on Nikkō Line.
- Semi-Express (
準急 , Junkyū) (SmE) - Early morning and late night. Down to Kuki or to Minami-Kurihashi on the Nikkō Line through from Chūō-Rinkan of Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line via Hanzōmon Line. 10 cars.
- Section Express (
区間 急行 , Kukan Kyūkō) (SE) - Between Asakusa and Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen, Tatebayashi, Ōta or Shin-Tochigi on the Nikkō Line.
- Express (
急行 , Kyūkō) (Ex) - From morning to night. Down to Kuki (nearly half to Minami-Kurihashi on the Nikkō Line), through from Chūō-Rinkan on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line via Hanzōmon Line. 10 cars.
- Rapid (
快速 , Kaisoku), Section Rapid (区間 快速 , Kukan Kaisoku) (R) - Non-charged rapid train through to Nikkō Line, Kinugawa Line of Tobu and Yagan Railway, terminates at Aizu Tajima on the Aizu Railway.
- Limited Express (
特急 , Tokkyū) (LE) - Stops not shown. Charged for seat reservation and rapid service. Mainly through to the Nikkō Line for the Nikko area named Kegon (けごん) and Kinu (きぬ). Some through to Isesaki from Asakusa, sole direct service named Ryōmō (りょうもう).
Stations
- S: Stop
- Sh: stop on holidays
- *1: To Naka-Meguro on Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line.
- *2: To Chūō-Rinkan on Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line via Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line
- *3: Stop only terminating train, one service a day
- *4: Through to Nikkō Line
History
Tobu Skytree Line is train station since May 2012.
External links
Station | L | SSE | SmE | SE | E | R, SR | Location | |||
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Tokyo Metro, Toei, Tobu | S | S | *1 | S | *2 | S | *2 | S | Taitō | Tokyo |
Tokyo Skytree | S | S | S | S | Sumida | |||||
(Oshiage) | S | S | ||||||||
Hikifune | S | S | S | S | S | S | ||||
Higashi-Mukōjima | S | S | S | S | ||||||
Kanegafuchi | S | S | S | S | ||||||
Horikiri | S | S | S | S | Adachi | |||||
Tokyo | S | S | S | S | ||||||
Kita-Senju | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | ||
Kosuge | S | S | ||||||||
Gotanno | S | S | ||||||||
Umejima | S | S | ||||||||
Nishiarai | S | S | S | S | S | S | ||||
Takenotsuka | S | S | ||||||||
Yatsuka | S | S | Sōka | Saitama | ||||||
Sōka | S | S | S | S | S | S | ||||
Matsubaradanchi | S | S | ||||||||
Saitama | S | S | ||||||||
Gamō | S | S | Koshigaya | |||||||
Shin-Koshigaya | S | S | S | S | S | S | ||||
Koshigaya | S | S | S | S | S | S | ||||
Kita-Koshigaya | S | S | S | S | ||||||
Ōbukuro | S | S | S | S | ||||||
Sengendai | S | S | S | S | S | S | ||||
Takesato | S | S | S | S | Kasukabe | |||||
Ichinowari | S | S | S | S | ||||||
Kasukabe | S | S | S | S | S | S | S | |||
Kita-Kasukabe | S | S | S | S | *3 | |||||
Himemiya | S | S | S | S | Miyashiro | |||||
Tōbu-Dōbutsu-Kōen | S | S *4 |
S *4 |
S *4 |
S *4 |
S *4 |
S *4 |
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- ^ Tobu ridership in 2010 Train Media (sourced from Tobu) Retrieved May 28, 2012.