Nagoya Line (Kintetsu)

The Nagoya Line (名古屋線, Nagoya-sen) is a railway line owned and operated by the Kintetsu Railway, a Japanese private railway company, connecting Nagoya and Ise Nakagawa Station in Matsusaka, Mie Prefecture via Kuwana, Yokkaichi, Suzuka, Tsu municipalities along the Ise Bay. The official starting-point of the line is Ise-Nakagawa and the terminus is Nagoya; however, operationally trains run "down" from and "up" towards Nagoya.

Nagoya Line
21010 series EMU for Limited Express trains
Overview
Line number	E
Locale	Aichi Prefecture Mie Prefecture
Termini	Kintetsu-Nagoya Ise-Nakagawa
Stations	44
Color on map	(#1b3db0)
Service
Type	Heavy rail Commuter rail
History
Opened	10 September 1915 (1915-09-10)
Last extension	26 June 1938 (1938-06-26)
Technical
Line length	78.8 km (49.0 mi)
Number of tracks	Double-track
Track gauge	1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) standard gauge
Old gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) (until 1959)
Electrification	1,500 V DC (overhead line)
Operating speed	120 km/h (75 mph)
Signalling	Automatic closed block
Train protection system	Kintetsu ATS, ATS-SP
Maximum incline	3.35%
Route map km year closed Tōkaidō Shinkansen Tōkaidō Main Line Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line Nagoya Station Meitetsu Nagoya Station E01 0.0 Kintetsu Nagoya Station connection to Meitetsu line 1954 Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line Chūō Main Line Tōkaidō Shinkansen Sasashima Goods Komeno depot Sasashima-raibu Sasashima Yoneno footbridge E02 1.1 Komeno Nagoya sidings Sasashima Junction E03 2.1 Kogane Nagoya Depot E04 2.8 Kasumori Aonami Line E05 3.8 Kintetsu Hatta│Hatta 4.0 Kintetsu Hatta (original) 2005 Kansai Main Line Shonai River E06 6.4 Fushiya Shin River Nagoya Municipal Subway Kanayama Line (planned) E07 8.4 Toda E08 9.7 Kintetsu Kanie E09 12.1 Tomiyoshi & Tomiyoshi Depot Kansai Main Line E10 13.7 Sakogi E11 16.1 Kintetsu Yatomi Yatomi Meitetsu Bisai Line 17.3 Kisogawa Bunki Junction 1959 Yatomi Overpass 1959 Kisogawa Bridge over Kiso River Aichi Mle border Nagashima Overpass 1959 E12 19.5 Nagashima│Kintetsu Nagashima Ibi-Nagara Bridge over Ibi & Nagara Rivers 21.3 Ibigawa 1969 21.4 Ibigawa Branch signal 1959 Ibigawa Branch temporary signal 22.3 Harima River branch signal 1959 Kansai Main Line Yōrō Railway Yōrō Line Higashikata depot E13 23.7 Kuwana Kuwana Electric Tramway Nishi-Kuwana Mie Kōtsū Hokusei Line Sangi Railway Hokusei Line E14 24.8 Masuo│Kuwanakai Asaake signal Inabe River Machiya by 1952 Kansai Main Line E15 27.4 Ise-Asahi Asaake River Kawagoe Halt 1945 E16 30.0 Kawagoe Tomisuhara Tomisuhara (original) 1945 Sangi Railway Sangi Line Sanki Asahi signal Tomida-Nishiguchi 1985 Sangi Railway Kintetsu Renraku Line Tomida E17 31.6 Kintetsu Tomida Kansai Main Line Kasumigaura Station (original) 1943 E18 33.5 Kasumigaura Hatsu 1943 E19 34.6 Akuragawa Kaizo River E20 35.7 Kawaramachi Mitaki River Nishimachi Tenrikyo curve 37.0 Suwa Kintetsu Yunoyama Line 1956 Zenkoji curve Yokkaichi 1956 E21 36.9 Kintetsu Yokkaichi│Yokkaichi Asunaro Yokkaichi Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway Utsube & Hachiōji Lines E22 38.1 Shinshō 38.7 Shikagawa signal 1956 Kansai Main Line E23 39.6 Miyamado E24 40.8 Shiohama depot │Shiohama│ Shiohama Goods Kansai Main Line freight branch Suzuka River E25 42.6 Kita-Kusu Suzuka Hasen River E26 44.2 Kusu E27 45.6 Nagonoura 45.9 Kusunoki branch signal 1943 46.4 Mida (original)) E28 47.0 Mida E29 48.3 Ise-Wakamatsu Kintetsu Suzuka Line E30 50.1 Chiyozaki 51.4 Shirasaki branch signal 1943 E31 52.9 Shiroko E32 54.1 Tsuzumigaura E32 56.0 Isoyama E34 57.9 Chisato 58.1 Kamiiso branch signal 1944 58.9 Ise Ueno 1943 E35 59.8 Toyotsu-Ueno 60.6 Toyotsuura 1943 E36 61.7 Shiratsuka│ Shiratsuka Depot 62.9 Sakagawa 1944 63.2 Inverse river branch signal 1955 Ise Electric Railway E37 64.1 Takadahonzan 63.7 Takadahonzan (original) 1955 64.7 Sangenya branch signal E38 65.3 Edobashi 65.5 Edobashi (original) 1959 Ise Electric Railway Kintetsu Ise Line Kisei Main Line E39 66.5 Tsu Ano River E40 68.8 Tsushinmachi Iwata River Kisei Main Line Chūsei Railway (narrow gauge) E41 71.5 Minamigaoka 71.6 Double pond signal 1953 E42 74.0 Hisai Chūsei Railway (standard gauge) E43 75.5 Momozono 76.9 Kumidegawa branch signal 1972 Nakamura River 78.2 53 points (Kurota branch) Ōsaka Namba Osaka Line Kuroda junction Nakagawa bypass Miyako junction Osaka Line E60 78.8 Ise-Nakagawa Yamada Line Ujiyamada Toba Line Toba Shima Line Kashikojima km year closed

The line approximately parallels the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) Kansai Main Line, the Ise Railway Ise Line, and the JR Central Kisei Main Line, and all three offer rapid services from Nagoya to Ise.

At Ise-Nakagawa, the line has connections to the Osaka Line to Uehommachi and Kintetsu Namba Stations of downtown Osaka, and to the Yamada Line to Ujiyamada Station and beyond Toba Station on the Toba Line and Kashikojima Station of the Shima Line, to provide touristic access to scenic Shima Peninsula and Ise Shrine.

Services

 LO  Local (普通; futsū)
Trains stop at every station.

For Shiratsuka, Yokkaichi, Nagoya

For Tomiyoshi, Yokkaichi, Shiratsuka, Ise-Nakagawa

 SE  Semi-Express (準急; junkyū)

For Nagoya

For Tomiyoshi, Yokkaichi

 EX  Express (急行; kyūkō)

For Nagoya

For Ise-Nakagawa, Matsusaka, Ujiyamada, Toba

 LE  Limited Express (特急; tokkyū)
Seat reservations and limited express fee required.

For Nagoya

For Ōsaka Namba; via Nabari and Yamato-Yagi (Kashihara)

For Ujiyamada, Toba, Kashikojima

 NS  Non-stop Limited Express (ノンストップ特急; nonsutoppu tokkyū)
Trains for Ōsaka Namba run hourly. Trains for Kashikojima run once a day on weekends. Seat reservations and limited express fee required.

For Nagoya

For Ōsaka Namba

For Kashikojima

 SV  Premium Express Shimakaze (しまかぜ; Shimakaze)
Trains for Kashikojima run once a day except on Wednesday with some exceptions. :(Seat reservations, limited express fee and special vehicle fee required.

For Nagoya

For Kashikojima

Stations

Legend
●	Trains stop here
○	Trains stop here sometimes
|	Trains do not stop here

No.	Station		Distance (km)	Transfers	LO	SE	EX	LE	NS	SV	Location
E01	Kintetsu-Nagoya	近鉄名古屋	0.0	Tōkaidō Shinkansen Tōkaidō Main Line Chūō Main Line Kansai Main Line Meitetsu Nagoya Main Line Higashiyama Line Sakura-dōri Line Aonami Line	●	●	●	●	●	●	Nakamura-ku, Nagoya	Aichi Prefecture
E02	Komeno	米野	1.1		●	|	|	|	|	|
E03	Kogane	黄金	2.1		●	|	|	|	|	|
E04	Kasumori	烏森	2.8		●	|	|	|	|	|
E05	Kintetsu-Hatta	近鉄八田	3.8	Kansai Main Line Higashiyama Line	●	|	|	|	|	|
E06	Fushiya	伏屋	6.4		●	|	|	|	|	|	Nakagawa-ku, Nagoya
E07	Toda	戸田	8.4		●	|	|	|	|	|
E08	Kintetsu-Kanie	近鉄蟹江	9.7		●	●	●	|	|	|	Kanie
E09	Tomiyoshi	富吉	12.1		●	●	|	|	|	|
E10	Sakogi	佐古木	13.7		●	●	|	|	|	|	Yatomi
E11	Kintetsu-Yatomi	近鉄弥富	16.1	Kansai Main Line Meitetsu Bisai Line	●	●	●	|	|	|
E12	Kintetsu-Nagashima	近鉄長島	19.5		●	●	|	|	|	|	Kuwana	Mie Prefecture
E13	Kuwana	桑名	23.7	Kansai Main Line Yōrō Railway Yōrō Line Sangi Railway Hokusei Line	●	●	●	●	|	|
E14	Masuo	益生	24.8		●	●	|	|	|	|
E15	Ise-Asahi	伊勢朝日	27.4		●	●	|	|	|	|	Asahi
E16	Kawagoe Tomisuhara	川越富洲原	30.0		●	●	|	|	|	|	Kawagoe
E17	Kintetsu-Tomida	近鉄富田	31.6	Sangi Railway Sangi Line	●	●	●	|	|	|	Yokkaichi
E18	Kasumigaura	霞ヶ浦	33.5		●	●	|	|	|	|
E19	Akuragawa	阿倉川	34.6		●	●	|	|	|	|
E20	Kawaramachi	川原町	35.7		●	●	|	|	|	|
E21	Kintetsu-Yokkaichi	近鉄四日市	36.9	K Yunoyama Line Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway Utsube Line Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway Hachiōji Line	●	●	●	●	|	●
E22	Shinshō	新正	38.1		●		|	|	|	|
E23	Miyamado	海山道	39.6		●		|	|	|	|
E24	Shiohama	塩浜	40.8		●		●	|	|	|
E25	Kita-Kusu	北楠	42.6		●		|	|	|	|
E26	Kusu	楠	44.2		●		|	|	|	|
E27	Nagonoura	長太ノ浦	45.6		●		|	|	|	|	Suzuka
E28	Mida	箕田	47.0		●		|	|	|	|
E29	Ise-Wakamatsu	伊勢若松	48.3	L Suzuka Line	●		●	|	|	|
E30	Chiyozaki	千代崎	50.1		●		|	|	|	|
E31	Shiroko	白子	52.9		●		●	●	|	|
E32	Tsuzumigaura	鼓ヶ浦	54.1		●		|	|	|	|
E33	Isoyama	磯山	56.0		●		|	|	|	|
E34	Chisato	千里	57.9		●		|	|	|	|	Tsu
E35	Toyotsu-Ueno	豊津上野	59.8		●		|	|	|	|
E36	Shiratsuka	白塚	61.7		●		|	|	|	|
E37	Takadahonzan	高田本山	64.1		●		|	|	|	|
E38	Edobashi	江戸橋	65.3		●		●	|	|	|
E39	Tsu	津	66.5	Kisei Main Line Ise Railway Ise Line	●		●	●	●	|
E40	Tsu-shimmachi	津新町	68.8		●		●	|	|	|
E41	Minamigaoka	南が丘	71.5		●		●	|	|	|
E42	Hisai	久居	74.0		●		●	○	|	|
E43	Momozono	桃園	75.5		●		●	|	|	|
E61	Ise-Nakagawa	伊勢中川	78.8	D Osaka Line M Yamada Line	●		●	●	|	|	Matsusaka

History

The first section, between Shiroko and Takadahonzan, was opened in 1915 by an independent railway operator Ise Electric Railway (伊勢電気鉄道, Ise Denki Testudō) with rail gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in). The line was extended to Tsu-shinmachi and Kusu in 1917, and to (now) Kintetsu-Yokkaichi in 1922, the line being electrified at 1500 VDC in 1926. It was extended as an electrified line to Kuwana in 1929, and to Ise-Nakagawa the following year.

In 1936 the line was acquired by the Sangu Express Railway Co., which duplicated the Kuwana - Kusu section in 1938, the year that the Kansai Express Railway Co. opened the Nagoya - Kuwana section as electrified dual track.

In 1940 the Sangū Kyūkō Electric Railway (参宮急行電鉄, Sangū Kyukō Dentetsu) merged with the Kansai Express Railway Co., a predecessor of Kintetsu.

The Kusu - Hisai section was duplicated between 1937 and 1955, and the dual tracking of the line was completed in 1972 with duplication of the Hisai - Ise-Nakagawa section.

Gauge conversion

After the acquisition of a 1435mm connection to Osaka, Kintetsu passengers to that destination needed to change trains due to the difference of gauges. In 1959 the disastrous Ise-wan Typhoon destroyed the line and Kintetsu decided to convert to 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in) gauge (standard gauge) with the reconstruction, the standard of the company to enable direct operation between Osaka and Nagoya. Today a number of Limited Express trains between Osaka and Nagoya, and between Nagoya and Ise and Shima area are operated.

Former connecting lines

• Kuwana station - The 762mm gauge Sangi Railway Hokusei Line 1 km (0.62 mi) section to Kuwana Kyobashi operated between 1913 and 1961, being electrified in 1930 at 600 VDC, and boosted to 750 VDC in 1954.
• Edobashi station - the Ise Electric Railway 39 km (24 mi) 1067mm gauge line to Daijingumae opened between 1926 and 1930, and closed between 1943 and 1961.
• Tsu-shimmachi station - The Anou Railway Co. operated a 14 km (8.7 mi) 762mm gauge line to Mukumoto between 1914 and 1944. There was a 5 km (3.1 mi) branch to Katada operated from 1917 to 1927.
• Hisai station - The Dainippon Railway Co. operated a 15 km (9.3 mi) 762mm gauge line to Ise-Kawaguchi on the Meisho Line between 1925 and 1943.

Proposed connecting line

• Toda station - The 1972 Nagoya regional transport plan proposed a subway (Line 5) from this station to Kurokawa. In 2008 it was determined the line was not economically viable.

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia

• "Kintetsu Special Issue (近畿日本鉄道特集号, Kinki Nippon Tetsudō Tokushū Gō)". Railway Pictorial (鉄道ピクトリアル). 313. 1975.
• "Kinki Nippon Railway (近畿日本鉄道)". JTB Timetable (JTB時刻表). 82 (4): 838. 2006.