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Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line
A Shinano Railway SR1 series EMU, between Furuma and Kurohime
Overview
Native name	しなの鉄道北しなの線
Owner	Shinano Railway
Locale	Nagano Prefecture
Termini	Nagano Myōkō-Kōgen
Stations	8
Service
Type	Commuter rail
Rolling stock	115 series EMUs
History
Opened	1 May 1888 14 March 2015 (2015-03-14) (As the private railway line)
Technical
Line length	37.3 km (23.2 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC
Route map Legend JR East Hokuriku Shinkansen JR East Shinetsu Main Line 0.0 Nagano Nagano Dentetsu Nagano Line 3.9 Kita-Nagano JR East Hokuriku Shinkansen 6.8 Sansai 10.8 Toyono JR East Iiyama Line 18.6 Mure 25.1 Furuma 28.9 Kurohime Nojiri Tunnel Akagawa Tunnel 37.3 Myōkō-Kōgen ETR Myōkō Haneuma Line

The Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line (しなの鉄道北しなの線, Shinano Tetsudō Kita-Shinano-sen) is a 37.3 km (23.2 mi) railway line operated by the third-sector railway operating company Shinano Railway in Nagano Prefecture, Japan, since 14 March 2015 following the opening of the Hokuriku Shinkansen extension north of Nagano and transfer of operations of the former Shinetsu Main Line from East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Nagano Station in Nagano with Myōkō-Kōgen Station in Myōkō, Niigata.

Service outline

All services on the line are all-stations "Local" (普通, Futsū) driver-only operation trains. From the start of operations on the line, there are 21 return workings daily between Nagano and Jōetsumyōkō, and three return workings daily between Nagano and Toyono, an increase in two return services daily compared with JR East operations prior to March 2015. A small number of services continue to and from Komoro on the Shinano Railway Line operated by the same company south of Nagano. In addition to Shinano Railway services, JR East Iiyama Line through-running services to and from Nagano also use the section of the line between Nagano and Toyono. At Myōkō-Kōgen, the northern end of the line, a cross-platform transfer is provided to the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Myōkō Haneuma Line continuing northward along the former Shinetsu Main Line, with Shinano Railway trains normally using platform 2 and Echigo Tokimeki Railway trains normally using platform 3.

Stations

Station	Japanese	Distance (km)	Connections	Location
Nagano	長野	0.0	Hokuriku Shinkansen ■ Shinetsu Main Line Shinano Railway Line Nagano Electric Railway	Nagano	Nagano Prefecture
Kita-Nagano	北長野	3.9
Sansai	三才	6.8
Toyono	豊野	10.8	■ Iiyama Line
Mure	牟礼	18.6		Iizuna
Furuma	古間	25.1		Shinano
Kurohime	黒姫	28.9
Myōkō-Kōgen	妙高高原	37.3	ETR Myōkō Haneuma Line	Myōkō	Niigata Prefecture

Rolling stock

Services are operated using 115 series electric multiple unit (EMU) trains transferred from JR East.

History

The name of the line was chosen in March 2013 following a public ballot.

See also

• List of railway lines in Japan

References

1. ^ Osano, Kagetoshi (March 2015). 北陸新幹線並行在来線各社の姿 [Guide to companies operating conventional lines alongside the Hokuriku Shinkansen]. Tetsudō Daiya Jōhō Magazine (in Japanese). Vol. 44, no. 371. Japan: Kōtsū Shimbun. pp. 28–33.

External links

• Official website (in Japanese)

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JR Central	Chūō Iida
JR West	Ōito
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Miscellaneous	Rail Nagano Station Matsumoto Station Airport Matsumoto Rail transport in Japan
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v t e Stations of the Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line and related lines
Shin'etsu Main Line (1997-present)	Takasaki Kita-Takasaki Gumma-Yawata Annaka Isobe Matsuida Nishi-Matsuida Yokokawa
Railway abandoned	Yokokawa Karuizawa (served by JR Bus Kanto Usui Line)
Shinano Railway Line	Karuizawa Naka-Karuizawa Shinano-Oiwake Miyota Hirahara Komoro Shigeno Tanaka Ōya Shinano-Kokubunji Ueda Nishi-Ueda Tekuno-Sakaki Sakaki Togura Chikuma Yashiro Yashiro Kōkō-mae Shinonoi (for Nagano>>)
Shin'etsu Main Line (1997-present)	(for Shiojiri<<)(for Karuizawa<<) Shinonoi Imai Kawanakajima Amori Nagano (for Myōkō-Kōgen>>)
Shinano Railway Kita-Shinano Line	(for Shinonoi<<) Nagano Kita-Nagano Sansai Toyono Mure Furuma Kurohime Myōkō-Kōgen
ETR Myōkō Haneuma Line	Myōkō-Kōgen Sekiyama Nihongi Arai Kita-Arai Jōetsumyōkō Minami-Takada Takada Kasugayama Naoetsu (for Niigata>>)
Shin'etsu Main Line (2015-present)	(for Jōetsumyōkō<<) Naoetsu Kuroi Saigata (for Echigo-Yuzawa>>) Dosokohama Katamachi Jōgehama Kakizaki Yoneyama Kasashima Ōmigawa Kujiranami Kashiwazaki Ibarame Yasuda Kitajō Echigo-Hirota Nagatori Tsukayama Echigo-Iwatsuka Raikōji Maekawa Miyauchi Nagaoka Kita-Nagaoka Oshikiri Mitsuke Obiori Tōkōji Sanjō Higashi-Sanjō Honai Kamo Hanyūda Tagami Yashiroda Furutsu Niitsu Satsukino Ogikawa Kameda Echigo-Ishiyama Niigata (for Shibata>>)
See also: Hokuriku Shinkansen, Joetsu Shinkansen All stations are part of Shin'etsu Main Line prior to Oct 1 1997. bold: Shirayuki stops

• Kita-Shinano Line
• Railway lines in Japan
• Railway lines in Nagano Prefecture
• 1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
• Railway lines opened in 2015
• 2015 establishments in Japan
• Japanese third-sector railway lines