The is a Japanese railway line connecting Keisei-Takasago Station and Narita Airport Terminal 1 Station. The entire route from

Keisei Ueno Station is a railway station in Taitō, Tokyo, Japan, operated by the private railway operator Keisei Electric Railway. It is the terminus of the Keisei Main Line and is a short distance from JR Ueno Station. Layout The station is underground bene ...

, including the Keisei Main Line as far as Keisei-Takasago, is branded . The Keisei Electric Railway operates over the entire line, while other companies operate over certain sections of it, such as Hokuso Railway. The new line is used by '' Skyliner'' limited express services operating at up to using Keisei AE series EMUs.

Operations

Trains utilize the Keisei Electric Railway's Main Line between Keisei Ueno and Keisei-Takasago. Trains run at a maximum speed of , thus completing the run from Nippori to Narita Airport Terminal 2·3 in a minimum of 36 minutes (15 minutes faster than the previous Skyliner route, which took 51 minutes). The reserved-seat Keisei Skyliner limited express fare for the route between Narita airport and either Nippori or Ueno stations is ¥2,580 and takes 36–41 minutes, while the Access Express commuter fast train costs ¥1,280 and takes 63–69 minutes. Express trains also operate towards Haneda Airport from Narita Airport (in a long chain of

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via Keisei-Takasago, Aoto, Oshiage, Sengakuji/Shinagawa, and Keikyū-Kamata), connecting the two airports in 92–109 minutes for a fare of ¥1,850. There are also plans to build a spur from the

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to Tōkyō Station, opening a (potentially) faster route to the airport via

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Basic data

*Total length: *Service operators and track owners:Descriptions of the various categories are available at

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Station list

Trains stop at stations marked "●" and pass those marked "｜". Some '' Skyliner'' trains stop at stations marked "▲".

History

Service on this line commenced on July 17, 2010. The line involved the refurbishment of of existing track on the Hokusō Line, as well as the construction of of new dual track to Narita Airport, partly using disused rights-of-way originally planned for the cancelled Narita Shinkansen project. The total cost, according to the Narita Rapid Rail Access website, was estimated to be ¥126 billion, or about US$1.3 billion. From the timetable revision on February 26, 2022, Toei 5500 series trains began operating on the line on weekdays. In October 2022, Keisei announced that certain ''Skyliner'' trains would begin serving

Shin-Kamagaya Station is a junction passenger railway station in the city of Kamagaya, Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated jointly by the third sector Hokusō Railway and the private railway operators Keisei Electric Railway and Tōbu Railway. Lines Shin-Kamagaya ...

with the intent of improving access to Kashiwa and Matsudo in

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. The planned implementation took place on 26 November 2022.https://www.city.kamagaya.chiba.jp/smph/kurashi-tetsuzuki/koutsukikan/railway/skyliner-shinkama.html

References

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

External links

New Skyliner

Narita Rapid Rail Access Co. Ltd.
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