The is a Japanese railway line which connects
Okayama Station in
Okayama
is the capital city of Okayama Prefecture in the Chūgoku region of Japan. The city was founded on June 1, 1889. , the city has an estimated population of 720,841 and a population density of 910 persons per km2. The total area is .
The city is ...
to
Uno Station in
Tamano, both in
Okayama Prefecture
is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūgoku region of Honshu. Okayama Prefecture has a population of 1,906,464 (1 February 2018) and has a geographic area of 7,114 km2 (2,746 sq mi). Okayama Prefecture borders Tottori Prefecture to the nor ...
. It is owned and run by the
West Japan Railway Company
, also referred to as , is one of the Japan Railways Group (JR Group) companies and operates in western Honshu. It has its headquarters in Kita-ku, Osaka. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and ...
(JR West). It is also referred to as the . Part of the line, between
Okayama Station and
Chayamachi Station, is known as the
Seto-Ōhashi Line
The is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku) in Japan which links Okayama Station in Okayama Prefecture with Takamatsu Station in Kagawa Prefec ...
.
Stations
*L: Limited express ''
Shiokaze'', ''
Nanpū
The is a limited express train service in Japan operated by Shikoku Railway Company (JR Shikoku), which runs from to . Trains are formed of 3-car or 2+3 car sets of 2700 series DMUs, and sometimes are coupled with '' Shimanto'' services betwee ...
'', ''
Sunrise Seto
The is an overnight sleeping car train service in Japan operated jointly by Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West) since July 1998.
Operations
The ''Sunrise Seto'' runs daily between and in Kaga ...
'', and ''
Uzushio''
*M: Rapid ''
Marine Liner''
All trains stop at stations marked "●" and pass stations marked "｜".
Some trains stop at "▲", and a few trains stop at "△"
Goes another route at "=".
Rolling stock
History
The entire line opened on 12 June 1910,
and until the opening of the
Seto Ohashi Bridge in 1988, was the main railway connection to
Shikoku
is the smallest of the four main islands of Japan. It is long and between wide. It has a population of 3.8 million (, 3.1%). It is south of Honshu and northeast of Kyushu. Shikoku's ancient names include ''Iyo-no-futana-shima'' (), ...
(via the Takamatsu ferry). With the privatization of JNR on 1 April 1987, the line came under the control of JR West.
From the start of the 26 March 2016 timetable revision, the line was branded the .
See also
*
List of railway lines in Japan
List of railway lines in Japan lists existing railway lines in Japan alphabetically.
The vast majority of Japanese railways are classified under two Japanese laws, one for and another for . The difference between the two is a legal, and not alwa ...
References
{{Okayama transit
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
1910 establishments in Japan
Lines of West Japan Railway Company
Rail transport in Okayama Prefecture
Railway lines opened in 1910