Odakyū Odawara Line

The Odakyu Odawara Line (小田急小田原線, Odakyū-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, the gateway to Hakone in Kanagawa Prefecture. It is a busy commuter line and is also known for its "Romancecar" limited express services. From Yoyogi-Uehara Station some trains continue onto the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and beyond to the East Japan Railway Company Joban Line.

Odakyū Odawara Line
An Odakyu 70000 series Romancecar GSE limited express
Overview
Owner	Odakyu Electric Railway
Locale	Tokyo, Kanagawa Prefecture
Termini	Shinjuku Odawara
Stations	47
Website	http://www.odakyu.jp/
Service
Type	Commuter rail
Daily ridership	1,493,451 (daily, 2010)^[1]
History
Opened	1 April 1927; 96 years ago (1927-04-01)
Technical
Line length	82.5 km (51.3 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC (overhead line)
Operating speed	110 km/h (70 mph)
Signalling	Automatic closed block
Train protection system	D-ATS-P
Route map Toride Jōban Line Ayase Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line Kita-Senju Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line Toei Shinjuku Line Saikyō, Shōnan-Shinjuku lines Chūō Main Line Yamanote, Chūō-Sōbu lines 0.0 Shinjuku ground platforms Shinjuku subterranean platforms Keiō Line Toei Ōedo Line Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line Keiō New Line Keiō Line 0.8 Minami-Shinjuku Sanya abandoned in 1946 1.5 Sangūbashi Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line 2.7 Yoyogi-Hachiman Yoyogi-kōen 3.5 Yoyogi-Uehara 4.2 Higashi-Kitazawa Keiō Inokashira Line 4.9 Shimo-Kitazawa Daita bypass 5.6 Setagaya-Daita Shindaita 6.3 Umegaoka 7.0 Gōtokuji Yamashita Tōkyū Setagaya Line Kyōdō depot Closed in 1994 8.0 Kyōdō 9.2 Chitose-Funabashi 10.6 Soshigaya-Ōkura 11.6 Seijōgakuen-mae Kitami depot 12.7 Kitami 13.8 Komae 14.4 Izumi-Tamagawa Tama River, Tokyo/Kanagawa Nanbu Line 15.2 Noborito Mukōgaoka-Yūen Monorail 15.8 Mukōgaoka-Yūen 17.9 Ikuta Musashino Line freight 19.2 Yomiuriland-mae 20.5 Yurigaoka 21.5 Shin-Yurigaoka Odakyū Tama Line Karakida 23.4 Kakio 25.1 Tsurukawa 27.9 Tamagawagakuen-mae 30.8 Machida Yokohama Line 32.3 Sagami-Ōno 32.5 Sagami-Ōno Junction Odakyū Enoshima Line Ōno depot Katase Enoshima 34.7 Odakyū-Sagamihara 36.9 Sōbudai-mae 39.2 Zama Sagami Line Ebina-Kokubu Closed in 1943 Sagami Railway Atsugi Line Sagami Railway Main Line 42.5 Ebina Ebina depot Sōtetsu Atsugi Line Sagami Line 44.1 Atsugi Sagami River 45.4 Hon-Atsugi 48.5 Aikō-Ishida 52.2 Isehara 55.9 Tsurumaki-Onsen 57.0 Tōkaidaigaku-mae 61.7 Hadano 65.6 Shibusawa bypass for Limited Express Gotemba Line 71.8 Shin-Matsuda Matsuda Gotemba Line Numazu Sakawa River 74.3 Kaisei 76.2 Kayama 77.8 Tomizu 79.2 Hotaruda Izu-Hakone Railway Daiyūzan Line 80.8 Ashigara Tōkaidō Shinkansen Tōkaidō Main Line Izu-Hakone Railway Daiyūzan Line 82.5 Odawara Tōkaidō Main Line Tōkaidō Shinkansen Hakone Tozan Line Hakone-Yumoto This diagram: view talk edit

Operation

Destinations are from Shinjuku unless noted. English abbreviations are tentative for this article.

  Limited Express (特急, tokkyū)

Collectively known as "Romancecar" services, there is an extra seat charge for limited express service. Daytime service trains bound for: 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 are for Odawara and Fujisawa on the Odakyu Enoshima Line.

  Express (急行, kyūkō) (E)

Services are for Karakida, as well as thrice-hourly service between Machida and Odawara.

  Semi Express (準急, junkyū) (SE)

Most services are for Mukogaoka-yuen. All services run through on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Subway Line with some continuing on to the JR Joban Line.

  Local (各駅停車, kakueki teisha)

Most services for Hon-Atsugi; others to Odawara, through to Katase-Enoshima and the Tama and Hakone Tozan lines. Also service between Odawara to Hakone-Yumoto

  Commuter Express (通勤急行, tsūkin-kyūkō) (CE)

All services operate in the weekday morning for Shinjuku from Karakida on the Odakyu Tama Line.

  Commuter Semi Express (通勤準急, tsūkin-junkyū) (CS)

All services operate from Hon-Atsugi to the Chiyoda Line during weekday mornings.

Stations

Notes:

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

Legend:

• ● - all trains stop at this station; ■ - some trains stop at this station;｜- all trains pass; ○ - On Weekdays, Outbound for Isehara Evening Rush Hour only.
• "CS" - Commuter Semi Express; "CE" - Commuter Express "SE" - Semi-Express; "E" - Express; "RE" - Rapid Express

No.	Station	Japanese	Distance (km)		CS	CE	SE	E	RE	Transfers	Location
			Between stations	Total
OH01	Shinjuku	新宿	-	0.0	To Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line	●	To Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line	●	●	JC Chūō Line (Rapid) (JC05) JB Chūō-Sōbu Line (JB10) JY Yamanote Line (JY17) JA Saikyō Line (JA11) JS Shōnan-Shinjuku Line(JS20) M Tokyo Metro Marunouchi Line (M-08) E Toei Oedo Line (E-27) (Shinjuku-nishiguchi (E-01)) S Toei Shinjuku Line (S-01)   Keio Line (KO01)   Keio New Line (KO01)   Seibu Shinjuku Line (Seibu-Shinjuku (SS01))	Shinjuku	Tokyo
OH02	Minami-Shinjuku	南新宿	0.8	0.8		｜		｜	｜		Shibuya
OH03	Sangūbashi	参宮橋	0.7	1.5		｜		｜	｜
OH04	Yoyogi-Hachiman	代々木八幡	1.2	2.7		｜		｜	｜
Through to C Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line and JL Jōban Line:					■ Commuter Semi Express (all trains): to Toride via Chiyoda Line and Joban Line ■ Local (some trains): to Toride via Chiyoda Line and Jōban Line ■ Semi Express (all trains): to Toride via Chiyoda Line and Joban Line ■ Express (some trains): to Toride via Chiyoda Line and Joban Line
OH05	Yoyogi-Uehara	代々木上原	0.8	3.5	●	●	●	●	●	C Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line (C-01)
OH06	Higashi-Kitazawa	東北沢	0.7	4.2	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜		Setagaya
OH07	Shimo-Kitazawa	下北沢	0.7	4.9	●	●	●	●	●	Keio Inokashira Line (IN05)
OH08	Setagaya-Daita	世田谷代田	0.7	5.6	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
OH09	Umegaoka	梅ヶ丘	0.7	6.3	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
OH10	Gōtokuji	豪徳寺	0.7	7.0	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜	SG Tokyu Setagaya Line (Yamashita (SG08))
OH11	Kyōdō	経堂	1.0	8.0	●	｜	●	■	｜
OH12	Chitose-Funabashi	千歳船橋	1.2	9.2	｜	｜	●	｜	｜
OH13	Soshigaya-Ōkura	祖師ヶ谷大蔵	1.4	10.6	｜	｜	●	｜	｜
OH14	Seijōgakuen-Mae	成城学園前	1.0	11.6	●	●	●	●	｜
OH15	Kitami	喜多見	1.1	12.7	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
OH16	Komae	狛江	1.1	13.8	｜	｜	●	｜	｜		Komae
OH17	Izumi-Tamagawa	和泉多摩川	0.6	14.4	｜	｜	｜	｜	｜
OH18	Noborito	登戸	0.8	15.2	●	｜	●	●	●	JN Nambu Line (JN14)	Tama-ku, Kawasaki	Kanagawa
OH19	Mukōgaoka-Yūen	向ヶ丘遊園	0.6	15.8	●	●	●	●	｜
OH20	Ikuta	生田	2.1	17.9	●	｜	○	｜	｜
OH21	Yomiuri-Land-mae	読売ランド前	1.3	19.2	●	｜	○	｜	｜
OH22	Yurigaoka	百合ヶ丘	1.3	20.5	●	｜	○	｜	｜		Asao-ku, Kawasaki
OH23	Shin-Yurigaoka	新百合ヶ丘	1.0	21.5	●	●	○	●	●	OT Odakyu Tama Line (through to Karakida from Shinjuku/Chiyoda Line)
OH24	Kakio	柿生	1.9	23.4	●	To Tama Line	○	｜	｜
OH25	Tsurukawa	鶴川	1.7	25.1	●		○	｜	｜		Machida	Tokyo
OH26	Tamagawagakuen-mae	玉川学園前	2.8	27.9	●		○	｜	｜
OH27	Machida	町田	2.9	30.8	●		○	●	●	JH Yokohama Line (JH23)
OH28	Sagami-Ōno	相模大野	1.5	32.3	●		○	●	●	OE Odakyu Enoshima Line (through to Katase-Enoshima from Shinjuku/Machida)	Minami-ku, Sagamihara	Kanagawa
OH29	Odakyū-Sagamihara	小田急相模原	2.4	34.7	●		○	｜	｜
OH30	Sōbudai-mae	相武台前	2.2	36.9	●		○	｜	｜		Zama
OH31	Zama	座間	2.3	39.2	●		○	｜	｜
OH32	Ebina	海老名	3.3	42.5	●		○	●	●	■ Sagami Line   Sotetsu Main Line (SO18)	Ebina
OH33	Atsugi	厚木	1.6	44.1	●		○	｜	｜	■ Sagami Line
OH34	Hon-Atsugi	本厚木	1.3	45.4	●		○	●	●		Atsugi
OH35	Aikō-Ishida	愛甲石田	3.1	48.5	●		○	●	●
OH36	Isehara	伊勢原	3.7	52.2	●		○	●	●		Isehara
OH37	Tsurumaki-Onsen	鶴巻温泉	3.7	55.9				●	●		Hadano
OH38	Tōkaidaigaku-mae	東海大学前	1.1	57.0				●	●
OH39	Hadano	秦野	4.7	61.7				●	●
OH40	Shibusawa	渋沢	3.9	65.6				●	●
OH41	Shin-Matsuda	新松田	6.2	71.8				●	●	Gotemba Line (Matsuda (CB04))	Matsuda, Ashigarakami District
OH42	Kaisei	開成	2.5	74.3				●	｜		Kaisei, Ashigarakami District
OH43	Kayama	栢山	1.9	76.2				｜	｜		Odawara
OH44	Tomizu	富水	1.6	77.8				｜	｜
OH45	Hotaruda	螢田	1.4	79.2				｜	｜
OH46	Ashigara	足柄	1.6	80.8				｜	｜
OH47	Odawara	小田原	1.7	82.5				●	●	OH Hakone Tozan Line (Through Services to Hakone-Yumoto)   Tokaido Shinkansen JT Tokaido Main Line (JT16) JS Shonan-Shinjuku Line ■ Izuhakone Railway Daiyūzan Line (ID01)

History

The Odawara Express Railway Co. opened the entire line on April 1, 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.^[2] 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.^[2] Tokyu was broken up in 1948 and the line was transferred to the newly founded Odakyu Electric Railway Co.^[2]

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)).^[2] 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.^[2] 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.^[2]

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;^[3] 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.^[4] 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.^[5]

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]}

See also

• List of railway lines in Japan

References

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

1. Odakyu ridership in 2010 Train Media (sourced from Odakyu) Retrieved May 28, 2012.
2. [Company brief history / abbreviation chronology]. Odakyu.co.jp (in Japanese). Archived from the original on 30 April 2021. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
3. 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.
4. Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency. (PDF). jrtt.co.jp. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 March 2014. Retrieved 16 July 2022.
5. [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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