Sotobō Line

Sotobō Line
E257-500 series EMU on a Sotobō Line Wakashio limited express service, November 2006
Overview
Type	Heavy rail
Locale	Chiba Prefecture
Termini	Chiba Awa-Kamogawa
Stations	27
Operation
Opening	1896
Operator(s)	JR East
Depot(s)	Chiba
Technical
Line length	93.3 km (58.0 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Operating speed	110 km/h (70 mph)
Route map

Sotobo Line

Legend 1 2 3 1: Keisei Chiba Line 2: Chūō-Sōbu Line 3: Sōbu Line (Rapid) 0.0 Chiba](II) 1963- Chiba Monorail Line 1 Keisei Chiba Station (II) 1958- Chiba Station(I) -1963 Sōbu Main Line Keisei Chiba Station (I) -1958 Chiba Monorail Line 2 Hon-Chiba Station(I) -1958 Chiba-Chūō 1.4 Hon-Chiba](II) 1958- Keisei Chihara Line Keiyō Line 3.8 Soga Keiyō Rinkai Railway Rinkai Main Line Uchibō Line 8.8 Kamatori 12.6 Honda 18.1 Toke Toke Tunnel 881m 22.9 Ōami(II) Ōami Station(I) Tōgane Line 25.3 Nagata 27.7 Honnō 31.4 Shin-Mobara JASDF Mobara Airfield Mitsui Chemicals Nansō Line (defunct) Kazusa-Takashi Station 34.3 Mobara Chōnan-Mobara Jinrikisha Rail Line 38.9 Yatsumi Ichinomiya River 43.0 Kazusa-Ichinomiya Fire balloon Site 46.2 Torami 49.3 Taitō Izumi River 52.1 Chōjamachi 53.7 Mikado 55.6 Tōkai Station（closed） Isumi Railway Line 57.2 Ōhara Isumi Kidō Jinrikisha Line 60.5 Namihana 65.4 Onjuku 70.9 Katsuura Ubara Tunnel 74.3 Ubara Okitsu Tunnel 77.2 Kazusa-Okitsu 80.5 Namegawa-Island Uchiura Tunnel 84.3 Awa-Kominato Ōboiso Tunnel 87.7 Awa-Amatsu Uchibō Line 93.3 Awa-Kamogawa

The Sotobō Line (外房線, Sotobō-sen) is a railway line in Japan operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) along the Pacific Ocean, on the eastern (i.e., outer) shore of the Bōsō Peninsula. It runs from Chiba Station in Chiba to Awa-Kamogawa Station in Kamogawa, passing through Ōami-Shirasato, Mobara, Chōsei, Ichinomiya, Isumi, Onjuku, and Katsuura. The line is connected to the Uchibō Line at both ends.

Services

Limited express and Rapid ("Commuter Rapid") services run on this line.

• Limited Express Wakashio

Tokyo - (Keiyō Line) - Soga - Awa-Kamogawa

(some operate as all-stations "Local" services between Katsuura and Awa-Kamogawa

• Rapid / Commuter Rapid
  • Kurihama - (Yokosuka Line) - Tokyo - (Sōbu Line (Rapid)) - Soga - Kazusa-Ichinomiya
  • Tokyo - (Keiyō Line) - Soga - Ōami - Kazusa-Ichinomiya (some to/from Katsuura, or Narutō on the Tōgane Line)

Station list

• Local trains stop at every station.

Rolling stock

• 255 series EMUs (Limited express Wakashio)
• E257-500 series EMUs (Limited express Wakashio)
• 209-2000/2100 series 4/6-car EMUs (Sotobō Line local services)
• 211-3000 series 5-car EMUs (Sotobō Line local services since 21 October 2006)^[1]
• E217 series 10+5-car EMUs (Sōbu Line (Rapid) through services as far as Kazusa-Ichinomiya)
• E233-5000 series 10-car EMUs (Keiyō Line through services as far as Katsuura)

Former rolling stock

• 113 series EMUs (Sotobō Line local services, until 2011)

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Sotobō Line.

• JR East Sōbu and Bōsō area route map

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