Shōnan–Shinjuku Line

Shōnan–Shinjuku Line
Shōnan-Shinjuku Line E231 series EMU
Overview
Type	Commuter rail
Locale	Kantō region
Operation
Opened	2001
Operator(s)	JR East
Technical
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC overhead catenary
Operating speed	120 km/h (75 mph)
Route map

The Shōnan–Shinjuku Line (湘南新宿ライン Shōnan–shinjuku-rain) 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 Koganei (some to/from Utsunomiya) and Zushi; this increases to 2–3 trains per hour during peak periods. Sometimes trains operate to/from Ōfuna as well as to/from Koga 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.
• 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.

Takasaki Line – Tōkaidō Line Route

• Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Local / Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Rapid (Takasaki Line: Local; Ōmiya–Ōfuna: Rapid; Tōkaidō Line: Local)
  • Services commenced on December 1, 2001.
  • One train per hour is operated between Kagohara and Hiratsuka (some to/from Kōzu). During peak periods when there are no special rapid services this increases to 2–3 trains per hour, with trains to/from Takasaki, Kōzu, and Odawara. Some morning southbound trains and weekday evening northbound trains operate to/from Maebashi via the Ryōmō Line; one weekday morning train is operated from Fukaya.
  • 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.
• Shōnan-Shinjuku Line Special Rapid (Takasaki Line: Rapid; Ōmiya–Ōfuna: Special Rapid; Tōkaidō Line: 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 weekends and holidays, two services each way to/from Odawara are extended to/from Atami, stopping at Manazuru and Yugawara.

Station list

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

Line name		Station	Japanese	Distance (km)		Shōnan–Shinjuku Line services				Transfers	Location
Official	Actual			Between stations	From Shinjuku	Local	Local[* 1]	Rapid[* 2]	Special Rapid
Through services:						Utsunomiya Line		Takasaki Line		Utsunomiya Line (Tohoku Main Line): for Koganei and Utsunomiya Takasaki Line: for Kagohara, Takasaki, and Maebashi (via the Ryōmō Line
Within the Utsunomiya and Takasaki lines:						Local	Rapid	Local	Special Rapid
Tohoku Main Line	Tohoku Freight Line	Ōmiya	大宮	–	27.4	●	●	●	●	Tohoku Shinkansen, Yamagata Shinkansen, Akita Shinkansen, Joetsu Shinkansen, Hokuriku Shinkansen, Keihin-Tohoku Line, Tohoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line), Takasaki Line, Saikyō Line, Kawagoe Line Tobu Noda Line New Shuttle	Ōmiya-ku, Saitama	Saitama
		Urawa	浦和	–	–	●	●	●	●	Keihin-Tōhoku Line, Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line), Takasaki Line	Urawa-ku, Saitama
		Akabane	赤羽	17.1	10.3  [* 3]	●	●	●	●	Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line for Ueno), Takasaki Line (for Ueno), Keihin-Tōhoku Line, Saikyō Line	Kita	Tokyo
Yamanote Line	Yamanote Freight Line	Ikebukuro	池袋	5.5  [* 3]	4.8	●	●	●	●	Saikyō Line,[* 4] Yamanote Line Seibu Ikebukuro Line Tobu Tojo Line Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line (M-25), Tokyo Metro Yūrakuchō Line (Y-09), Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line (F-09)	Toshima
		Shinjuku	新宿	4.8	0.0	●	●	●	●	Chūō Line, Chūō-Sōbu Line, Yamanote Line, Saikyō Line Keio Line, Keio New Line Odakyū Odawara Line Seibu Shinjuku Line (Seibu-Shinjuku) Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line (M-08) Toei Shinjuku Line (S-01), Toei Ōedo Line (E-27, Shinjuku-Nishiguchi: E-01)	Shinjuku
											Shibuya
		Shibuya	渋谷	3.4	3.4	●	●	●	●	Saikyō Line, Yamanote Line Keio Inokashira Line Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line, Tokyu Toyoko Line Tokyo Metro Ginza Line (G-01), Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line (Z-01), Tokyo Metro Fukutoshin Line (F-16)
		Ebisu	恵比寿	1.6	5.0	●	●	●	｜	Saikyō Line, Yamanote Line Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line (H-02)
		Ōsaki	大崎	3.6	8.6	●	●	●	●	Yamanote Line Rinkai Line	Shinagawa
Tōkaidō Main Line	Hinkaku Line	Nishi-Ōi	西大井	5.6  [* 5]	14.2  [* 5]	●	●	｜	｜	Yokosuka Line (for Shinagawa)
		Musashi-Kosugi	武蔵小杉	6.4	20.6	●	●	●	●	Nambu Line Tokyu Toyoko Line, Tokyu Meguro Line	Nakahara-ku, Kawasaki	Kanagawa
		Shin-Kawasaki	新川崎	2.7	23.3	●	●	｜	｜	Nambu Line (Kashimada, unofficial)	Saiwai-ku, Kawasaki
	Yokosuka Line tracks	Yokohama	横浜	12.2	35.5	●	●	●	●	Keihin-Tōhoku Line, Negishi Line, Yokohama Line, Yokosuka Line, Tōkaidō Line (for Tokyo) Tokyu Toyoko Line Keikyu Main Line Sagami Railway Main Line Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line (B20) Minatomirai Line	Nishi-ku, Yokohama
		Hodogaya	保土ヶ谷	3.0	38.5	●	●	｜	｜		Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama
		Higashi-Totsuka	東戸塚	4.9	43.4	●	●	｜	｜		Totsuka-ku, Yokohama
		Totsuka	戸塚	4.2	47.6	●	●	●	●	Tōkaidō Line Yokohama Municipal Subway Blue Line (B06)
	[* 6]	Ōfuna	大船	5.6	53.2	●	●	●	●	Tōkaidō Line (through service), Yokosuka Line (through service), Negishi Line Shōnan Monorail	Sakae-ku, Yokohama
											Kamakura
Service within the Yokosuka and Tōkaidō lines:						Local	Local	Local	Rapid
Through services:						Yokosuka Line		Tōkaidō Line		Yokosuka Line: for Zushi (some trains terminate at Ōfuna) Tōkaidō Line: for Hiratsuka, Kōzu, and Odawara[* 7]

Notes

1. Southbound trains 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.
2. Southbound trains 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.
3. The Ikebukuro – Akabane section is treated as passing over the Akabane Line when calculating fares; therefore, actual distance is approximately 9.5 km.
4. The Shōnan-Shinjuku Line shares tracks with the Saikyō Line between Ikebukuro and Ōsaki.
5. The Nishi-Ōi – Ōsaki section is treated as passing through Shinagawa when calculating fares
6. 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.
7. During some peak holiday periods two special rapid service trains are extended to Atami

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.^[1]

See also

• Ueno-Tokyo Line, a similar north-south line on the east side of Tokyo

References

1. Ueshin, Daisuke (19 March 2015). E233系、ダイヤ改正で湘南新宿ラインにも登場 [E233 series also appear on Shonan-Shinjuku Line from timetable revision]. Mynavi News (in Japanese). Japan: Mynavi Corporation. Archived from the original on 1 April 2016. Retrieved 3 October 2016.

External links

• Shōnan-Shinjuku Line (Japan Guide) (English)

Further reading

• Kusamachi, Yoshikazu (November 2011). "特集：湘南新宿ライン10周年" [Feature: 10th Anniversary of the Shōnan-Shinjuku Line]. Japan Railfan Magazine. Vol. 51 no. 607. Japan: Kōyūsha Co., Ltd. pp. 7–42.