Mito Line
Japanese railway line
The Mito Line (水戸線, Mito-sen) is a railway line connecting Oyama Station in Tochigi Prefecture and Tomobe Station in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The line is 50.2 km (31.2 mi) long and is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Joban Line E501 series and E531 series ten car sets continue on to Iwaki, Fukushima while the 5 car sets go to Oyama. They separate at Tomobe.
Services are often run as one-man trains.
01Station list
- All trains stop at every station.
- Trains can pass one another at stations marked "◇" and "∨" and cannot pass at stations marked "｜".
| Station | Japanese | Distance (km) | Transfers | Location | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Between stations |
Total | ||||||
| Oyama | 小山 | - | 0.0 | Tōhoku Shinkansen Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) Shonan-Shinjuku Line ■ Ryomo Line |
∨ | Oyama | Tochigi |
| Otabayashi | 小田林 | 4.9 | 4.9 | ｜ | Yūki | Ibaraki | |
| Yūki | 結城 | 1.7 | 6.6 | ◇ | |||
| Higashi-Yūki | 東結城 | 1.7 | 8.3 | ｜ | |||
| Kawashima | 川島 | 2.1 | 10.4 | ◇ | Chikusei | ||
| Tamado | 玉戸 | 2.1 | 12.5 | ｜ | |||
| Shimodate | 下館 | 3.7 | 16.2 | ■ Moka Railway Mooka Line ■ Jōsō Line |
◇ | ||
| Niihari | 新治 | 6.1 | 22.3 | ◇ | |||
| Yamato | 大和 | 3.6 | 25.9 | ｜ | Sakuragawa | ||
| Iwase | 岩瀬 | 3.7 | 29.6 | ◇ | |||
| Haguro | 羽黒 | 3.2 | 32.8 | ◇ | |||
| Fukuhara | 福原 | 4.2 | 37.0 | ◇ | Kasama | ||
| Inada | 稲田 | 3.1 | 40.1 | ◇ | |||
| Kasama | 笠間 | 3.2 | 43.3 | ◇ | |||
| Shishido | 宍戸 | 5.2 | 48.5 | ｜ | |||
| Tomobe | 友部 | 1.7 | 50.2 | ■ Jōban Line (some through services for Mito) | ◇ | ||
02Rolling stock
- E501 series five-car EMUs
- E531 series five-car EMUs
Former rolling stock
- 415 series four-car EMUs (until March 2016)
03History
The Mito Railway Co. opened the line on 16 January 1889 operating between Oyama and Mito Stations. On 1 March 1892, the Mito Railway Co. merged with the Nippon Railway.
On 1 July 1895, the Joban Line was opened by the Nippon Railway, joining the Mito Line at Tomobe Station. The company was nationalised in 1906.
On 12 October 1909, the Japanese Government Railways renamed the Tomobe to Mito section as part of the Joban Line, resulting in the current "Mito Line" being the section between Oyama and Tomobe.
The line was completely electrified on 1 February 1967.
Former connecting lines
Kasama Station: A 1.4 km 610 mm (2 ft) gauge handcar line to the Kasama Inari shrine operated between 1915 and 1930.
Sources and credits
This article is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Mito Line”, written by its contributors and licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. Fathomly has changed the layout, removed citation markers, navigation and maintenance notices, and adjusted punctuation. This adapted version is shared under the same license. For references, see the original article.
Images, from Wikimedia Commons:
- JR East E501-2.JPG by JobanLineE531, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Kasama Jinsha-kidou.jpg by published by 葛飾区郷土と天文の博物館, Public domain
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