Odakyū Odawara Line

Odawara Line
Odawara Line
	An Odakyu 70000 series Romancecar GSE limited express
Overview
Native name	小田原線
Status	In service
Owner	Odakyū Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
Locale	Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture
Termini	Shinjuku; Odawara;
Stations	47
Website	www.odakyu.jp
Service
Type	Commuter rail
System	Odakyu Electric Railway
Route number	OH
Operator(s)	Odakyū Electric Railway Co., Ltd.
Daily ridership	1,493,451 (daily, 2010)
History
Opened	1 April 1927; 99 years ago
Technical
Line length	82.5 km (51.3 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	Overhead line, 1,500 V DC
Operating speed	110 km/h (70 mph)
Signalling	Automatic closed block
Train protection system	D-ATS-P
Route map
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The Odawara Line (小田原線, Odawara-sen) is the main line of Japanese private railway operator Odakyu Electric Railway. It extends 82.5 km (51.3 mi) from Shinjuku in central Tokyo through the southwest suburbs to the city of Odawara in Kanagawa Prefecture. From Yoyogi-Uehara Station some trains continue onto the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and beyond to the East Japan Railway Company Joban Line.

Operation

Destinations are from Shinjuku unless otherwise noted. English abbreviations are unofficial.

Limited Express (特急, tokkyū; LE): Collectively known as "Romancecar" services, an extra seat charge applies for limited express service. Daytime trains run to: Odawara; Katase-Enoshima on the Enoshima Line; Hakone-Yumoto on the Hakone Tozan Railway; and Gotemba on the Central Japan Railway Company Gotemba Line.

Rapid Express (快速急行, kaisoku kyūkō; RE): No extra charge. Services run to Odawara and Fujisawa on the Odakyu Enoshima Line. All Rapid Express trains bound for Odawara terminate at Shin-Matsuda and continue as Express trains.

Express (急行, kyūkō; E): Services run to Karakida, with thrice-hourly service between Machida and Odawara.

Commuter Express (通勤急行, tsūkin-kyūkō; CE): Weekday morning services operate toward Shinjuku from Karakida on the Odakyu Tama Line.

Semi Express (準急, junkyū; SE): Most services run to Mukōgaoka-Yūen. All services continue on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line, with some trains extending onto the JR Joban Line.

Commuter Semi Express (通勤準急, tsūkin-junkyū; CS): Weekday morning services run from Hon-Atsugi to the Chiyoda Line.

Local (各駅停車, kakueki teisha; L): Most services run to Hon-Atsugi; others continue to Odawara, with through service to Katase-Enoshima and the Tama and Hakone Tozan lines. Some services also operate between Odawara and Hakone-Yumoto.

Stations

Notes:

See the Romancecar article for information on Odakyu Romancecar limited express services.
Local trains stop at every station.

Legend:

● - all trains stop
■ - some trains stop
｜- all trains pass
○ - On Weekdays, Outbound for Hon-Atsugi Evening Rush Hour only.

No.	Station	Distance (km)		Stops							Transfers	Location
No.	Station	Between stations	Total	LE	RE	E	CE	SE	CS	L	Transfers	Location
	Shinjuku 新宿	-	0.0	●	●	●	●			●	Chūō Line (JC05) Chūō–Sōbu Line (JB10) Yamanote Line (JY17) Saikyō Line (JA11) Shōnan–Shinjuku Line (JS20) Marunouchi Line (M-08) Ōedo Line (E-27, Shinjuku-nishiguchi: E-01) Shinjuku Line (S-01) Keiō Line/Keiō New Line (KO01) Shinjuku Line (Seibu-Shinjuku: SS01)	Shinjuku	Tokyo
	Minami-Shinjuku 南新宿	0.8	0.8	｜	｜	｜	↑			●		Shibuya
	Sangūbashi 参宮橋	0.7	1.5	｜	｜	｜	↑			●
	Yoyogi-Hachiman 代々木八幡	1.2	2.7	｜	｜	｜	↑			●
All Commuter Semi Express and Semi Express along with some Local and Express trains continue to/from Toride via Chiyoda Line and Jōban Line (Local)
	Yoyogi-Uehara 代々木上原	0.8	3.5	｜	●	●	●	●	●	●	Chiyoda Line (C-01)
	Higashi-Kitazawa 東北沢	0.7	4.2	｜	｜	｜	↑	｜	↑	●		Setagaya
	Shimo-Kitazawa 下北沢	0.7	4.9	｜	●	●	●	●	●	●	Inokashira Line (IN05)
	Setagaya-Daita 世田谷代田	0.7	5.6	｜	｜	｜	↑	｜	↑	●
	Umegaoka 梅ヶ丘	0.7	6.3	｜	｜	｜	↑	｜	↑	●
	Gōtokuji 豪徳寺	0.7	7.0	｜	｜	｜	↑	｜	↑	●	Setagaya Line (Yamashita: SG08)
	Kyōdō 経堂	1.0	8.0	｜	｜	●	↑	●	●	●
	Chitose-Funabashi 千歳船橋	1.2	9.2	｜	｜	｜	↑	●	●	●
	Soshigaya-Ōkura 祖師ヶ谷大蔵	1.4	10.6	｜	｜	｜	↑	●	●	●
	Seijōgakuen-Mae 成城学園前	1.0	11.6	●	｜	●	●	●	●	●
	Kitami 喜多見	1.1	12.7	｜	｜	｜	↑	●	↑	●
	Komae 狛江	1.1	13.8	｜	｜	｜	↑	●	●	●		Komae
	Izumi-Tamagawa 和泉多摩川	0.6	14.4	｜	｜	｜	↑	●	↑	●		Komae
	Noborito 登戸	0.8	15.2	｜	●	●	↑	●	●	●	Nambu Line (JN14)	Tama-ku, Kawasaki	Kanagawa
	Mukōgaoka-Yūen 向ヶ丘遊園	0.6	15.8	｜	｜	●	●	●	●	●
	Ikuta 生田	2.1	17.9	｜	｜	｜	↑	○	●	●
	Yomiuri-Land-mae 読売ランド前	1.3	19.2	｜	｜	｜	↑	○	●	●
	Yurigaoka 百合ヶ丘	1.3	20.5	｜	｜	｜	↑	○	●	●		Asao-ku, Kawasaki
	Shin-Yurigaoka 新百合ヶ丘	1.0	21.5	●	●	●	●	○	●	●	Tama Line (OH23; Commuter Express through service to/from Karakida)
	Kakio 柿生	1.9	23.4	｜	｜	｜		○	●	●
	Tsurukawa 鶴川	1.7	25.1	｜	｜	｜		○	●	●		Machida	Tokyo
	Tamagawagakuen-mae 玉川学園前	2.8	27.9	｜	｜	｜		○	●	●
	Machida 町田	2.9	30.8	●	●	●		○	●	●	Yokohama Line (JH23)
	Sagami-Ōno 相模大野	1.5	32.3	●	●	●		○	●	●	Enoshima Line (OH28; through to/from Katase-Enoshima)	Minami-ku, Sagamihara	Kanagawa
	Odakyū-Sagamihara 小田急相模原	2.4	34.7	｜	｜	｜		○	●	●		Minami-ku, Sagamihara
	Sōbudai-mae 相武台前	2.2	36.9	｜	｜	｜		○	●	●		Zama
	Zama 座間	2.3	39.2	｜	｜	｜		○	●	●		Zama
	Ebina 海老名	3.3	42.5	●	●	●		○	●	●	■ Sagami Line Sōtetsu Main Line (SO18)	Ebina
	Atsugi 厚木	1.6	44.1	｜	｜	｜		○	●	●	■ Sagami Line	Ebina
	Hon-Atsugi 本厚木	1.3	45.4	●	●	●		○	●	●		Atsugi
	Aikō-Ishida 愛甲石田	3.1	48.5	｜	●	●			●	●		Atsugi
	Isehara 伊勢原	3.7	52.2	●	●	●			●	●		Isehara
	Tsurumaki-Onsen 鶴巻温泉	3.7	55.9	｜	●	●				●		Hadano
	Tōkaidaigaku-mae 東海大学前	1.1	57.0	｜	●	●				●
	Hadano 秦野	4.7	61.7	●	●	●				●
	Shibusawa 渋沢	3.9	65.6	｜	●	●				●
	Shin-Matsuda 新松田	6.2	71.8	｜	●	●				●	Gotemba Line (Matsuda: CB04)	Matsuda, Ashigarakami District
	Kaisei 開成	2.5	74.3	｜	●	●				●		Kaisei, Ashigarakami District
	Kayama 栢山	1.9	76.2	｜	｜	｜				●		Odawara
	Tomizu 富水	1.6	77.8	｜	｜	｜				●
	Hotaruda 螢田	1.4	79.2	｜	｜	｜				●
	Ashigara 足柄	1.6	80.8	｜	｜	｜				●
	Odawara 小田原	1.7	82.5	●	●	●				●	Hakone Tozan Line (OH47; through service) Tōkaidō Shinkansen Tōkaidō Line (JT16) Daiyūzan Line (ID01)
↓ Limited express and local trains continue to/from Hakone-Yumoto via the Hakone Tozan Line ↓

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History

The Odawara Express Railway Co. opened the entire line on 1 April 1927 in order to allow for the Emperor's family to travel on the line, though as duplication works were not completed until October that year, there was initial timetable and signalling issues.^[3] Although primarily intended as a passenger line, gravel began to be hauled in 1930.

In 1942, the company was forcibly merged by the government with Tokyu Corporation and the line was named the Tokyu Odawara Line.^[3] Tokyu was broken up in 1948 and the line was transferred to the newly founded Odakyu Electric Railway Co.^[3]

Through operation to the Hakone Tozan Railway's Hakone Tozan Line began in 1950 once dual gauge track was commissioned (the Hakone Tozan Line is 1,435 mm (4 ft 8+1⁄2 in), the Odawara Line 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)).^[3] A connecting track was laid in 1955 to Matsuda Station on the Gotemba Line of the (then) Japanese National Railways, and limited express service through to the line started.^[3] To function as a bypass to central Tokyo, through service on the Eidan Subway (now Tokyo Metro) Chiyoda Line commenced in 1978 via Yoyogi-Uehara.^[3]

Increasing traffic volume since the 1970s led to plans being formed in 1985 for a track upgrading project on the Odawara Line, though land acquisition issues stalled major track expansion work until construction began in 2013;^[4] the project is being carried out between Yoyogi-Uehara and Mukōgaoka-Yūen, quadrupling the Odawara Line trackage and stacking the tracks underground, allowing for increased express services.^[5] Originally a viaduct was planned but this was changed to underground tracks, and work on the tunnel between Setagaya-Daita and Higashi-Kitazawa was completed in 2018.^[6]

Former connecting lines

Setagaya-Daita Station: A 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in) gauge line electrified at 1,500 V DC operated to Shindaita on the Keio Inokashira Line between 1945 and 1952.^{[citation needed]}

References

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

↑ Odakyu ridership in 2010 Train Media (sourced from Odakyu) Retrieved May 28, 2012.
↑ https://www.odakyu.jp/rail/ (This reference represents all of the "Stations" section.
1 2 3 4 5 6 "会社小史・略年表" [Company brief history / abbreviation chronology]. Odakyu.co.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
↑ Ministry of Finance Japan. "Examples of FILP-target Projects: Construction Projects of Private Rail Lines (Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (Construction Account))". Retrieved February 25, 2014.
↑ Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency. "About JRTT: Urban Railways" (PDF). jrtt.co.jp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
↑ "小田急、代々木上原駅～梅ヶ丘駅間の複々線化で工事期間を2018年度まで延長" [Odakyu, extend the construction period until fiscal 2018 by a quadruple track between station and umegaoka station Yoyogi-Uehara]. Automotive Media Response. March 14, 2013. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

External links

[ridership-1] Odakyu ridership in 2010 Train Media (sourced from Odakyu) Retrieved May 28, 2012.

[2] ttps://www.odakyu.jp/rail/ (This reference represents all of the "Stations" section.

[:0-3] 1 2 3 4 5 6 "会社小史・略年表" [Company brief history / abbreviation chronology]. Odakyu.co.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2022.

[4] Ministry of Finance Japan. "Examples of FILP-target Projects: Construction Projects of Private Rail Lines (Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency (Construction Account))". Retrieved February 25, 2014.

[5] Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency. "About JRTT: Urban Railways" (PDF). jrtt.co.jp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2022.

[6] "小田急、代々木上原駅～梅ヶ丘駅間の複々線化で工事期間を2018年度まで延長" [Odakyu, extend the construction period until fiscal 2018 by a quadruple track between station and umegaoka station Yoyogi-Uehara]. Automotive Media Response. March 14, 2013. Archived from the original on 24 January 2022. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

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