Odakyū Tama Line

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The Odakyū Tama Line (小田急多摩線, Odakyū Tama-sen^?) is a branch rail line in Japan, part of Odakyū Electric Railway. It stretches 10.6 km in the southwestern portion of Greater Tokyo.

Used for the commuter service by the residents of Tama New Town, the largest residence development in Japan, many rapid trains run to Shinjuku or several central areas in Tokyo. The terminal station of "Tama Express" train is Toride Station in Toride, Ibaraki. Limited express service, known as the Romancecar, is provided in the evening.

Contents 1 History 2 Train Classification 3 Stations 3.1 Limited Express service 3.2 Commuter services

[edit] History

Odakyū started its service on the first section, from Shin-Yurigaoka to Odakyū-Nagayama, on June 1, 1974. It was expanded to Tama Center, the core station of Tama New Town, on April 23, 1975. This section was constructed by the Japan Railway Construction Corporation (public, established by the national government, since renamed the Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency(JRTT)), while Odakyū operated it and paid repayment costs for the cooporation. On March 27, 1990, Odakyū opened Karakida station.

This line was constructed on double track system, but Odakyū couldn't took a large part of transport between Tokyo and Tama New Town, because no room for operating extra train serices for this purpose, by the delay about four track construction on Odawara Line.

After 2000, when it had partly completed the construction, Odakyu started rapid train service on the Tama Line, and succeeded in increasing the number of passengers, shorting the cost time. This line is regarded as a part of Tokyo Line 9, linked with Chiyoda Line and Odawara Line, in Transport Policy Council report #18 in 2000, that from the Ministry of Transport (now the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MILT)).

[edit] Train Classification

Color	Classification	in Japanese	Through lines	service time
	Limited Express	特急	All of these are from Shinjuku on Odawara Line	only in evening, no service to Shinjuku
red	Express	急行	All of these are to Shinjuku, or Ayase on the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line (except one, from Shin-Yurigaoka)	only morning on weekday
pink	Tama Express	多摩急行	All of these are from/to Toride on JR East Jōban Line via Chiyoda Line	all day long
sky blue	Section Semi Express	区間準急	All of these are from Shinjuku	in daytime
blue	Local	各駅停車	almost run in the line only, and seldom from/to Shinjuku	all day long

[edit] Stations

[edit] Limited Express service

The limited express service is known as the "Homeway", and uses Romancecar trainsets. It stops at Shin-Yurigaoka, Odakyū-Nagayama, Tama-Center and Karakida.

[edit] Commuter services

Station	Services				Location	km	total km	km from Shinjuku	Connect lines
Shin-Yurigaoka					Asao Ward/ Kawasaki, Kanagawa	0.0	21.5
Satsukidai						1.5	1.5	23.0
Kurihira						1.3	2.8	24.3
Kurokawa						1.3	4.1	25.6
Haruhino						0.8	4.9	26.4
Odakyū-Nagayama					Tama, Tokyo	1.9	6.8	28.3	Keio Corporation: Keio Sagamihara Line (as Keio-Nagayama Station, adjacent to the station)
Tama-Center						2.3	9.1	30.6	Keio Corporation: Keio Sagamihara Line (as Keio-Tama-Center Station, adjacent to the station) Tama Toshi Monorail Line (Tokyo Tama Intercity Monorail Line, as Tama-Center Station, 5 minutes on foot)
Karakida						1.5	10.6	32.1

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