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Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit
The is a railway line in Tokyo, Japan. It is the only line operated by the third-sector company Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit. It connects central Tokyo to the artificial islands of Aomi and Odaiba. The line is served by some trains on the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) Saikyō Line which continue on to , , , and . Overview While not part of the Tokyo subway network (as it was built to JR specifications), the Rinkai Line is fully grade separated and runs underground for nearly of its distance, going as low as below the ground when crossing under the Port of Tokyo. The Shinonome – Shin-Kiba segment (which uses the former Keiyō Freight Line) is elevated. Station list All stations are located in Tokyo. All trains stop at every station on the line. Rolling stock * TWR 70-000 series 10-car EMUs (since 1996) * JR East E233-7000 series 10-car EMUs (since 30 June 2013) The TWR 70-000 series electric multiple unit (EMU) trains are based at Yashio Depot, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
TWR 70-000 Series
The is a DC commuter electric multiple unit (EMU) train type operated in the Tokyo area of Japan by the Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit. The train was built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries and first entered revenue service in 1996. Its design is based on the 209 series. Formations , eight 10-car sets, numbered Z1 to Z3 and Z6 to Z10, are based at Yashio Depot in Tokyo (accessed via a spur located between Tennōzu Isle Station and Tokyo Teleport Station). These sets are formed as follows with six motored ("M") cars and four non-powered trailer ("T") cars. * Cars 3, 6, and 9 are each fitted with one lozenge-type Pantograph (rail), pantograph. * Cars 1 and 10 have wheelchair space. * Car 4 is designated as a mildly air-conditioned car. History Four 4-car trains were originally built and entered service in 1996 when the Rinkai Line opened between Shin-Kiba Station, Shin-Kiba and Tokyo Teleport Station, Tokyo Teleport. A fifth train was built in 1999 for service expansion, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokaido Shinkansen
The is a Japanese high-speed rail line that is part of the nationwide Shinkansen network. Along with the San'yō Shinkansen, it forms a continuous high-speed railway through the Taiheiyō Belt, also known as the Tokaido corridor. Opening in 1964, running between Tokyo Station, Tokyo and Shin-Ōsaka Station, Shin-Ōsaka, it was the world's first high-speed rail line, and it remains one of the world's busiest. Since 1987, it has been operated by the Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), prior to that by Japanese National Railways (JNR). There are three types of services on the line: from fastest to slowest, they are the limited-stop ''Nozomi (train), Nozomi'', the semi-fast ''Hikari (train), Hikari'', and the all-stop ''Kodama (train), Kodama''. Many ''Nozomi'' and ''Hikari'' trains continue onward to the San'yō Shinkansen, going as far as Fukuoka, Fukuoka, Fukuoka's Hakata Station. The different services operate at mostly the same speed. The line was named a joint List o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Port Of Tokyo
The Port of Tokyo is one of the largest Japanese seaports and one of the largest seaports in the Pacific Ocean basin having an annual traffic capacity of around 100 million tonnes of cargo and 4,500,000 twenty-foot equivalent units. The port is also an important employer in the area having more than 30,000 employees that provide services to more than 32,000 ships every year. History The forerunner of the Port of Tokyo, the ''Edo Port'' (Edo Minato) played a very important role in the history of marine transport of Japan and as a distribution point for supplying goods for the people of Edo. During the Tokugawa Shogunate the Port of Tokyo was not allowed to open to international trade, although the neighbouring Port of Yokohama was already open for this kind of trade. The development of the port was finally encouraged during the Meiji Period with the influence of a project that was meant to improve the estuary of the Sumida River by dredging channels and reclaiming land at Tsuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tokyo Subway
Two major operate in Tokyo: the Tokyo Metro and the Toei Subway. Most of the network is located in the Special wards of Tokyo, 23 special wards, with portions extending into Chiba Prefecture, Chiba and Saitama Prefecture, Saitama Prefectures. The subways are one part of Transport in Greater Tokyo#Rail, Greater Tokyo's passenger rail network, with through service further connecting the subway to suburban railways in Western Tokyo and Kanagawa Prefecture. Networks There are two primary subway operators in Tokyo: * Tokyo Metro – Formerly a statutory corporation called the Teito Rapid Transit Authority (TRTA), it was converted into a ''kabushiki gaisha'' (joint-stock company) in 2004. It currently operates 180 stations on nine lines and of route. * Toei Subway – run by the Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation, an agency of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government. It operates 106 stations on four lines and of route. , the combined subway network of the Tokyo and Toei metros ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Japan Railway Company
The is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST or JR East in English, and as in Japanese. The company's headquarters are in Yoyogi, Shibuya, Tokyo, next to Shinjuku Station. It is listed in the Tokyo Stock Exchange (it formerly had secondary listings in the Nagoya and Osaka stock exchanges), is a constituent of the TOPIX Large70 index, and is one of three Japan Railways Group constituents of the Nikkei 225 index, the others being JR Central and JR West. History JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). The spin-off was nominally "privatization", as the company was actually a wholly owned subsidiary of the government-owned JNR Settlement Corporation for several years, and was not completely sold to the public until 2002. Following the breakup, JR East ran the operations on forme ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Odaiba
is a large artificial island in Tokyo Bay, Japan, across the Rainbow Bridge (Tokyo), Rainbow Bridge from central Tokyo. Odaiba was initially built for defensive purposes in the 1850s. The land was dramatically expanded during the late 20th century as a seaport district, and was redeveloped in the 1990s into a major commercial, residential and leisure area. Odaiba, along with Minato Mirai 21 in Yokohama, is one of the few manmade seashores in Tokyo Bay where the waterfront is accessible and not blocked by industry and harbor areas. The majority of the island is located in Tokyo's Koto, Tokyo, Kōtō ward, with the north and northwest of the island in Minato, Tokyo, Minato and Shinagawa, Tokyo, Shinagawa wards. formally refers to one district of the island located in Minato. Governor Shintaro Ishihara used ''Odaiba'' to refer to the entire , which includes the Ariake, Tokyo, Ariake and Aomi, Tokyo, Aomi districts of Kōtō, Tokyo, Kōtō Ward and the Higashi-Yashio district of Shin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aomi
is an area in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan. Its subdivisions consist of Aomi 1, 2, 3 and 4 Japanese addressing system, ''chome''. Aomi is part of Tokyo Bay Landfill #13 and Tokyo Rinkai Satellite City Center. Many important facilities are located in Aomi, such as the Miraikan scientific museum, the Palette Town (including VenusFort shopping mall, the Daikanransha Ferris wheel, Zepp, Zepp Tokyo music hall, Mega Web, Megaweb - the exhibition hall of Toyota), a National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, National Institute of Technology. There is a large seaport facility area of the Port of Tokyo (Aomi dock) and Port of Tokyo#Aomi container terminal, Aomi container terminal. More than a half of the Aomi 2 chome area is dedicated to the port and cargo storage. The land of whole Aomi area had been reclaimed from the sea after 1946, thus all trees have been planted and there are no large animals except for Feral cat, stray cats. Several kinds of wild birds and fishes ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
