Ikawa Line

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Ikawa Line
Abt rack system)
Electrification1,500 V DC overhead
(rack portion only)
Route map

km
0.0
Senzu
1.1
Kawane-Ryōgoku
2.4
Sawama
Sumata River
3.9
Domoto
5.8
Kawane-Koyama
Signal Tunnel No. 9
440 m
Signal Tunnel No. 10
393 m
7.5
Okuizumi
Kawane Ichishiro
(
closed
1990
)
former line (
closed
1990
)
9.9
Abt Ichishiro
Dai-Kajima Tunnel
Ōkashima
Ōigawa Bridge No. 2
Ōi River
11.4
Nagashima Dam
Yosekura Tunnel
Kawane-Karasawa
12.6
Hiranda
Hirata Tunnel
old│new
Inuma
Okuōi Rainbow Bridge
Lake Sesso
13.9
Okuōikojō
Lake Sesso
tunnel 3
15.5
Sessokyō-Onsen
17.8
Omori
Sekinosawa Bridge
100 m
tunnel 5
20.5
Kanzō
Misakubo Tunnel No. 2
264 m
23.4
Kamekubo
(
closed
1971
)
tunnel 13
25.5
Ikawa
26.6
Dohira
(
closed
1971
)
km
rack
section

The Ikawa Line (井川線, Ikawa-sen) is a railway line of the

Kawanehon, Shizuoka, the end station of the Ōigawa Main Line, and terminates at Ikawa Station in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka. The line has 61 tunnels and 51 bridges along its 25.5 kilometer length and includes the only rack-and-pinion railway section
currently operating in Japan.

History

The Ikawa line began operations on March 20, 1935, as a private line for the Ōigawa Electric Company, to carry workers and materials upstream to facilitate dam construction. The single track line was originally constructed with

Abt rack system on October 2, 1990. An automatic train stop
system was installed at the end of March 2009.

The line runs through an isolated mountain area with no cities or towns, and has a very small population density. Most of the passengers are tourists visiting one of the

Southern Alps National Park
.

Former connecting lines

  • Sawama station - the 762mm gauge Sen-to forest railway, consisting of a 36km 'main line', branches 6km and 4km long and a 1.4km cableway, operated between 1934 and 1968.

Stations

Name Distance (km) Connections Location
Senzu 千頭 0.0 Ōigawa Railway Ōigawa Main Line Shizuoka
Kawane-Ryōgoku 川根両国 1.1  
Sawama 沢間 2.4  
Domoto 土本 3.9  
Kawane-Koyama 川根小山 5.8  
Okuizumi 奥泉 7.5  
Abt Ichishiro アプトいちしろ 9.9  
Nagashima Dam 長島ダム 11.4  
Hiranda ひらんだ 12.6  
Okuōikojō 奥大井湖上 13.9  
Sessokyō-Onsen 接岨峡温泉 15.5  
Omori 尾盛 17.8  
Kanzō 閑蔵 20.5   Aoi-ku, Shizuoka
Ikawa 井川 25.5  
  • Okuoi Rainbow Bridge
    Okuoi Rainbow Bridge
  • Mountainous terrain
    Mountainous terrain
  • Abt rack rail
    Abt rack rail

See also

External links