Gantoku Line

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The Gantoku Line (岩徳線 Gantoku-sen?) is a railway line operated by West Japan Railway Company in western Japan connecting Iwakuni Station in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture and Kushigahama Station in Shūnan, Yamaguchi Prefecture. Trains running on this line continue from Kushigahama Station to Tokuyama Station in Shūnan.

This line has somewhat steep slopes and long tunnel segments as this line was originally established as a shortening of the Sanyō Main Line along the old San'yōdō.

[edit] Basic data

(Note: The 1.9 km segment from Kawanishi to Morigahara Signal Station overlaps with the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line, operated by the Nishikigawa Railway.)

[edit] Stations

Station name Japanese Total distance Transfers Location
JR West
Iwakuni 岩国駅 0.0 km JR West: Sanyō Main Line Iwakuni
Nishi-Iwakuni 西岩国駅 3.7 km  
Kawanishi 川西駅 5.6 km Nishikigawa Railway: Nishikigawa Seiryū Line
Morigahara Signal Station 森ヶ原信号場 (7.5 km) (Actual point of divergence with Nishikigawa Seiryū Line)
Hashirano 柱野駅 8.5 km  
Kinmeiji 欽明路駅 15.2 km  
Kuga 玖珂駅 17.1 km  
Suō-Takamori 周防高森駅 20.6 km  
Yonekawa 米川駅 24.4 km  
Takamizu 高水駅 28.8 km   Shūnan
Katsuma 勝間駅 31.1 km  
Ōkawachi 大河内駅 33.3 km  
Suō-Kubo 周防久保駅 34.7 km   Kudamatsu
Ikunoya 生野屋駅 38.0 km  
Suō-Hanaoka 周防花岡駅 39.8 km  
Kushigahama 櫛ヶ浜駅 43.7 km JR West: San'yō Main Line (toward Yanai) Shūnan
Tokuyama1 徳山駅 47.1 km JR West: Sanyō Shinkansen, Sanyō Main Line (toward Hōfu, Shin-Yamaguchi Station)
1: Along the San'yō Main Line.


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