Shōnan–Shinjuku Line

The Shōnan–Shinjuku Line (Template:Langx) is a passenger railway service in Japan which commenced in December 2001. The line has no dedicated track as services run through shared sections along the Ryōmō Line, Takasaki Line, Utsunomiya Line, Yamanote freight line, Yokosuka Line, and Tōkaidō Main Line. It is treated as a distinct service at stations and on railway maps.

Services

Service patterns on the Shōnan–Shinjuku Line are as follows:

Utsunomiya Line–Yokosuka Line route

• Shōnan–Shinjuku Line local (Utsunomiya Line: local; Ōmiya–Ōfuna: local; Yokosuka Line: local)
  • Services commenced on December 1, 2001.
  • One train per hour is operated between Template:STN (some to/from Template:STN) and Template:STN; this increases to 2–3 trains per hour during peak periods. Sometimes trains operate to/from Ōfuna as well as to/from Template:STN on weekday mornings.
  • Most trains are operated in 15-car sets. Some pause at Koganei to couple-up or divide, with the 10-car portion continues northward; others are operated in 10-car sets along the entire line.
  • E233 series LED Displays show a green colour Template:Color for this service.
• Shōnan–Shinjuku Line local / Shōnan–Shinjuku Line rapid (Utsunomiya Line: Rapid; Ōmiya–Ōfuna: Local; Yokosuka Line: Local)
  • Services commenced on October 16, 2004.
  • From morning to midday, trains are operated hourly between Utsunomiya and Zushi (some to/from Ōfuna). Trains operate as rapid services within the Utsunomiya Line and as local services within the Yokosuka Line. These services replace daytime Rabbit rapid trains within the Utsunomiya Line to/from Ueno.
  • Most trains are operated in 15-car sets. Some pause at Koganei to couple-up or divide, with the 10-car portion is operated north of Koganei; others are operated in 10-car sets along the entire line.
  • E233 series LED Displays show an orange colour Template:Color within the Utsunomiya Line, and a green colour Template:Color south of Ōmiya for this service.

Takasaki Line–Tōkaidō Line route

• Shōnan–Shinjuku Line local / Shōnan–Shinjuku Line rapid (Takasaki Line: Local; Ōmiya–Totsuka: Rapid; Totsuka–Tōkaidō Line: Local)
  • Services commenced on December 1, 2001.
  • One train per hour is operated between Template:STN and Template:STN (some to/from Template:STN). During peak periods when there are no special rapid services this increases to 2–3 trains per hour, with trains to/from Template:STN, Kōzu, and Template:STN. Some morning southbound trains and weekday evening northbound trains operate to/from Template:STN via the Ryōmō Line; one weekday morning train is operated from Template:STN.
  • Except for a single northbound morning and southbound evening train, all trains are operated in 15-car sets south of Kagohara, where they are joined/separated; a 10-car train is operated north of Kagohara. The train from Fukaya is operated as a 15-car set.
  • E233 series LED Displays show an orange colour Template:Color between Ōmiya and Totsuka, and a green colour Template:Color within the Takasaki and Tōkaidō Lines for this service.
• Shōnan–Shinjuku Line special rapid (Takasaki Line–Ōmiya–Ōfuna–Tōkaidō Line: Special Rapid)
  • Services commenced on October 16, 2004.
  • One train per hour is operated throughout the day. This service replaces Urban rapid services to/from Ueno within the Takasaki Line. Except for the first northbound train, which starts from Hiratsuka, all trains are operated between Takasaki and Odawara.
  • Except for two round trips on weekdays, all trains are operated in 15-car sets south of Kagohara, where they are joined/separated; a 10-car train is operated north of Kagohara.
  • On very rare occasions in the past, extra services would be operated on weekends and holidays, in which two services each way to/from Odawara are extended to/from Template:STN, stopping at Manazuru and Yugawara.
  • E233 series LED Displays show a blue colour Template:Color for this service.

Station list

• Trains stop at stations marked "●" and pass those marked "｜".
• For information on Limited Express services, see the Shōnan article.

Line name		Station	Distance (km)		Shōnan–Shinjuku Line services				Transfers	Location
Official	Actual		Between stations	From Shinjuku	Local	Rapid<ref group="*"> Southbound Rapid trains from the Utsunomiya Line are labeled "Rapid" between Utsunomiya and Ōmiya and "Local" between Ōmiya and Zushi. Northbound trains are labeled "Local" between Zushi and Ōsaki and "Rapid" between Ōsaki and Utsunomiya. In the timetable of stations on the JR East website, all stations are guided as rapid trains. </ref>	Rapid<ref group="*"> Southbound Rapid trains from the Takasaki Line are labeled "Local" between Maebashi and Ōmiya, "Rapid" between Ōmiya and Totsuka, and "Local" between Totsuka and Odawara. Northbound trains are labeled "Rapid" between Odawara and Ōsaki and "Local" between Ōsaki and Maebashi. In the timetable of stations on the JR East website, all stations are guided as rapid trains. </ref>	Special Rapid
Through services:					Template:JRLS Utsunomiya Line		Template:JRLS Takasaki Line		Template:JRLS Utsunomiya Line (Tohoku Main Line): for Template:STN and Template:STN Template:JRLS Takasaki Line: for Template:STN, Template:STN, and Template:STN (via the Ryōmō Line)
Tohoku Main Line	Tohoku Freight Line	Template:STN Template:JRSN	–	27.4	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Ōmiya-ku, Saitama	Saitama
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	–	–	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Urawa-ku, Saitama
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	17.1	10.3  <ref group="*" name="akabane">The Ikebukuro–Akabane section is treated as passing over the Akabane Line when calculating fares; therefore, actual distance is approximately 9.5 km.</ref>	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Kita	Tokyo
Yamanote Line	Yamanote Freight Line	Template:STN Template:JRSN	5.5  <ref group="*" name="akabane" />	4.8	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Toshima
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	4.8	0.0	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Shinjuku
										Shibuya
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	3.4	3.4	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	1.6	5.0	●	●	●	｜	Template:Plainlist
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	3.6	8.6	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Shinagawa
Tōkaidō Main Line	Hinkaku Line	Template:STN Template:JRSN	5.6  <ref group="*" name="nishioi">The Nishi-Ōi–Ōsaki section is treated as passing through Template:STN when calculating fares.</ref>	14.2  <ref group="*" name="nishioi" />	●	●	｜	｜	Template:JRLS Yokosuka Line (for Template:STN)
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	6.4	20.6	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki	Kanagawa
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	2.7	23.3	●	●	｜	｜	Template:Plainlist	Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki
	Yokosuka Line tracks	Template:STN Template:JRSN	12.2	35.5	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Nishi-ku, Yokohama
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	3.0	38.5	●	●	｜	｜	Template:JRLS Yokosuka Line	Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	4.9	43.4	●	●	｜	｜	Template:JRLS Yokosuka Line	Totsuka-ku, Yokohama
		Template:STN Template:JRSN	4.2	47.6	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist
	<ref group="*">Between Totsuka and Ōfuna, through-service trains for the Tōkaidō Line travel over Tōkaidō Line tracks, while through service trains for the Yokosuka Line travel over Yokosuka Line tracks.</ref>	Template:STN Template:JRSN	5.6	53.2	●	●	●	●	Template:Plainlist	Sakae-ku, Yokohama
										Kamakura
Yokosuka Line
		Kita-Kamakura	2.3	55.5	●	●	||	||	Template:JRLS Yokosuka Line
		Kamakura	2.2	57.7	●	●	||	||	Template:JRLS Yokosuka Line
		Zushi	3.9	61.8	●	●	||	||	Template:JRLS Yokosuka Line	Zushi, Kanagawa
Through services:							Template:JRLS Tōkaidō Line		Template:JRLS Tōkaidō Line: for Template:STN, Template:STN, and Template:STN

Rolling stock

• E231-1000 series
• E233-3000 series (since March 2015)

Initially, services were operated using a mixture of rolling stock, including 115 series, 211 series, 215 series (double-deck), E217 series, and E231-1000 series EMUs, but rolling stock was standardized on the E231-1000 series EMUs in 2004, from which date these trains also included two bilevel Green cars. From the start of the new timetable on 14 March 2015, E233-3000 series trainsets were also introduced on Shonan–Shinjuku Line services.<ref name="mynavi20150319">Template:Cite web</ref>

History

On 20 August 2016, station numbering was introduced with stations being assigned station numbers between JS05 and JS24.<ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref> Numbers increase towards in the northbound direction towards Omiya.

See also

• Ueno-Tokyo Line, a similar north-south line running through the east side of central Tokyo
• F Liner, a competitor to the Shonan-Shinjuku Line between Ikebukuro / Shinjuku / Shibuya to Yokohama.
• Utsunomiya Line
• Tohoku Main Line
• Takasaki Line

Further reading

• Template:Cite magazine

External links

• Shōnan–Shinjuku line (Japan guide) Template:In lang