Hisatsu Orange Railway

Hisatsu Orange Railway Line

Hisatsu Orange Railway 100 series train

Legend

↔ Kagoshima Main Line : Hisatsu Line →

0.0

Yatsushiro

6 m

2.6

Kuma River 528 m

4.8

Higo-Kōda

6 m

10.1

Hinagu-Onsen

6 m

10.9

Hinagu Tunnel 219 m

Route 3

13.7

Higo-Futami

2 m

14.1

Futami River 58 m

18.0

Kami-Tanoura

4 m

18.4

Hatajiri Tunnel 85 m

20.7

Tanoura Tunnel 757 m

22.1

Tanoura-Otachimisaki-Kōen

4 m

22.5

Tanoura River 51 m

23.6

Higo-Tanoura

2 m

Route 3

25.8

Uminoura Tunnel 307 m

26.7

Uminoura

27 m

26.8

Sashiki Tunnel 1501 m

29.2

Sashiki River 63 m

29.8

Sashiki

2 m

33.7

Yunoura

7 m

↔ Kyūshū Shinkansen

35.2

Yunoura River 41 m

37.1

Tsunagi Tunnel ↓ 1348 m / ↑ 1416 m

40.1

41.8

↔ Kyūshū Shinkansen

42.4

Tsunagi

9 m

42.7

44.3

↔ Kyūshū Shinkansen

45.8

Shin-Minamata

32 m

46.9

Minamata River 123 m

48.3

49.6

Minamata

2 m

Route 3

54.0

Fukuro River 46 m

55.4

Fukuro

41 m

Route 3

56.0

57.1

61.3

Komenotsu

4 m

↔ Kyūshū Shinkansen

65.6

Izumi

14 m

66.2

68.3.

Nishi-Izumi

41 m

71.0

Takaono River 79 m

72.1

Takaono

46 m

74.2

Nodagō River 134 m

75.3

Nodagō

26 m

Route 3

80.2

80.7

Origuchi

5 m

83.1

Akasegawa Signal Box

19 m

Route 3

86.2

Akune

5 m

86.8

92.2

Ushinohama

13 m

93.9

Ōkawa Tunnel 253 m

94.2

Ōkawa River 35 m

95.7

Satsuma-Ōkawa

9 m

← old Track

95.8

Shin-Shirinasi Tunnel 413 m

Route 3

99.6

Nishikata

7 m

100.4

Nishikata Tunnel 129 m

Route 3

101.6

102.3

Satsuma-Taki

9 m

102.4

103.0

Sayama Tunnel 207 m

107.3

Kusamichi

3 m

Route 3

111.4

113.7

Kami-Sendai

7 m

115.0

116.0

Sendai River 244 m

116.9

Sendai

9 m

↓ for Kagoshima-Chūō

Hisatsu Orange Railway Co., Ltd. (肥薩おれんじ鉄道株式会社, Hisatsu Orenji Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha^?) is a third-sector railway company which operates Hisatsu Orange Railway Line in Kumamoto and Kagoshima prefectures. The line follows the former part of the JR Kyushu Kagoshima Main Line that connected Yatsushiro and Sendai in Kumamoto and Kagoshima Prefectures, known historically as Higo and Satsuma Provinces. The length of the line is 116.9 km.

Hisatsu Orange Railway went into service on March 13, 2004 when ownership was transferred from JR and the high speed Kyushu Shinkansen service began. The Hisatsu Orange Railway runs close to the Yatsushiro Sea and East China Sea and connects to the Kagoshima Main Line on both ends. The route is indirect and winding, but connects several cities along the coast.

The company has a total of 19 diesel cars, but two of them are reserved for special events.

Shareholders in the railway include prefectures of Kumamoto and Kagoshima, cities of Yatsushiro, Minamata, Izumi, Akune and Satsumasendai, towns of Tsunagi and Ashikita, and the Japan Freight Railway Company.

1 Hisatsu Orange Railway Line
- 1.1 Overview
- 1.2 Stations
2 External links
3 References