Tobu Railway

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Tōbu 100 series Spacia limited express
Tōbu 100 series Spacia limited express

Tōbu Railway Co., Ltd. (東武鉄道株式会社 Tōbu Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha?) is a Japanese commuter railway company in the Greater Tokyo Area as well as an intercity and regional operator in the Kantō region. It operates in Tokyo, Saitama, Chiba, Tochigi, and Gunma Prefectures. It offered freight services until September 30, 2003.

The Tōbu Group of which the company stands at the center also is engaged in road transportation (bus/taxi), real estate, and retail.

The name "Tōbu" is formed from the kanji for east (東) and Musashi (武蔵), the initial area served.

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[edit] Railway network

Excluding the Japan Railways Group companies, Tōbu's 463.3-kilometre rail system is the second longest in Japan after the Kinki Nippon Railway.

Tōbu has two isolated networks which are connected by the Chichibu Railway for ferrying of its railroad cars.

The Tōbu Main Line network has a tree topology starting at Asakusa Station in Tokyo, with the Isesaki line as the trunk, and the Kameido Line, Daishi Line, Noda Line, Sano Line, Koizumi Line, Kiryū Line and Nikkō Line forming the branches, with further branches into the Tōbu Utsunomiya Line and Kinugawa Lines. It offers surcharged, seat-reserved limited express services from Tokyo to Nikkō and Kinugawa.

The Tōjō Main Line runs northwest from Ikebukuro Station in Tokyo to central and western Saitama Prefecture. A branch, the Tōbu Ogose Line, runs to Ogose from Sakado station.

[edit] Tōbu Main Lines

[edit] Tōbu Tōjō Lines

[edit] Fares

Single fare (Adult)

km Fare (JPY)
1-4 140
5-7 160
8-10 190
11-15 240
16-20 300
21-25 350
26-30 400
31-35 450
36-40 500
41-45 570
46-50 630
51-60 700
61-70 780
71-80 860
81-90 940
91-100 1,030
101-120 1,160
121-140 1,320
141-178 1,500

[edit] Gallery

Tōbu 200 series Ryōmō limited express trainset

Tōbu 350 series Kirifuri limited express trainset

Tōbu 50000 series trainset

Tōbu 30000 series trainset

Tōbu 10000 series trainset

Tōbu 8000 series refurbished trainset

Tōbu 8000 series unrefurbished trainset

Tōbu 6050 series trainset

Tōbu 1800 series trainset

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Tōbu lines
Tōbu Main lines
Daishi • Isesaki • Kameido • Kinugawa • Kiryū • Koizumi • Nikkō • Noda • Sano • Utsunomiya
Tōbu Tōjō lines
Related lines
Major Stations
Asakusa • Funabashi • Ikebukuro • Kasukabe • Kawagoe • Kita-Senju • Ōmiya • Tōbu Nikkō
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16 major private rail operators of Japan
East Japan
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West Japan
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Mass transit in the Tokyo area (Number of lines indicated in parentheses)
JR lines
■Yamanote • ■Chūō • ■Chūō-Sōbu • ■Jōban • ■Keihin-Tōhoku • ■Keiyō • ■Saikyō •■Shōnan-Shinjuku • ■Sōbu Rapid • ■Tōkaidō • ■Utsunomiya • ■Yokosuka
Tokyo Metro lines
○Chiyoda (C) • ○Fukutoshin (F) • ○Ginza (G) • ○Hibiya (H) • ○Marunouchi (M) • ○Namboku (N) • ○Tōzai (T) • ○Yūrakuchō (Y) • ○Hanzōmon (Z)
Toei lines
Subway: ○Asakusa (A) • ○Ōedo (E) • ○Mita (I) • ○Shinjuku (S) • Guideway: Nippori-Toneri • Streetcar: Arakawa
Major / semi-major lines
Keikyū (5) • Keiō (7) • Keisei (7) • Odakyū (5) • Seibu (13) • Shin-Keisei • Sōtetsu (2) • Tōbu (12) • Tōkyū (8)
Other lines
Suburban, JR
■Hachikō • ■Kawagoe • ■Mito • ■Musashino • ■Nambu • ■Narita • ■Negishi • ■Ōme • ■Ryōmō • ■Sagami • ■Sōbu Main • ■Sotobō • ■Takasaki • ■Tōgane • ■Tsurumi • ■Uchibō • ■Yokohama
Suburban, Non-JR
Terminals
Miscellaneous