Tōbu Nikkō Line Explained

Tobu Nikko Line
Color:	FFA500
Type:	Heavy rail
Locale:	Kantō Region
Stations:	26
Open:	1929
Owner:	Tobu Railway
Depot:	Minami-Kurihashi
Linelength:	94.5km (58.7miles)
Electrification:	1,500 V DC, overhead catenary
Speed:	120round=5NaNround=5

The is a 94.5km (58.7miles) railway line in Japan operated by the private railway company Tobu Railway. It branches from Tōbu Dōbutsu Kōen Station in Miyashiro, Saitama on the Skytree Line, extending north to Tōbu Nikkō Station in Nikkō, Tochigi.

The line has two branch lines: the Utsunomiya Line at Shin-Tochigi Station in Tochigi, Tochigi, and the Kinugawa Line at Shimo-Imaichi Station in Nikkō.

Service patterns

, stops and service patterns are

• : Stops at all stations on the Nikko Line. Through to/from Naka-Meguro on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line;
• : Stops at all stations on the Nikko Line, limited-stop service on the Skytree Line;
• : Stops at all stations on the Nikko Line, limited-stop service on the Skytree Line. Through to/from Chūō-Rinkan on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line via the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line;
• : Stops at all stations on the Nikko Line, limited-stop service on the Skytree Line;
• : Stops at all stations on the Nikko Line, express service on the Skytree Line. Through to/from Chūō-Rinkan on the Tokyu Den-en-toshi Line via the Tokyo Metro Hanzomon Line.
• : Stops at partly stations on the Nikko Line, Limited express also services on the Skytree Line. There are Limited Express which are 4 types of ・・・. Trains which are named KINU or KINUGAWA bound to Kinugawaonsen Station. Trains which are named KEGON or NIKKO, KIRIFURI bound to Tobu-Nikko Station. Trains which are named AIZU bound to Aizu-Tajima Station.
• :^[1] Stops at Tobu-Nikko and Shimo-Imaichi. Passengers riding on this train must purchase the package^[2] on Tobu Top Tours and so on. Runs once a month.

Stations

No.	Station	Japanese	Distance (in km)							Transfer	Location
					A	C	A	C	A/S
		東武動物公園	0.0	O	O	O	O	O	｜		Miyashiro	Saitama
		杉戸高野台	3.2	O	O	O	O	O	KG/KN*4・RV*4		Sugito
		幸手	5.8	O	O	O	O	O	|| Satte|- | style="text-align: left"| | | 南栗橋| style="text-align: right" | 10.4| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O *1| style="text-align: center; background: lightgreen; border-bottom: solid 2px black"|O| style="text-align: center; background: lime; border-bottom: solid 2px black"|O| style="text-align: center; background: pink; border-bottom: solid 2px black"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"|O *2/*3| style="text-align: center; background: orange"||		Kuki
		栗橋	13.9	O				O	|| style="text-align: left"| Utsunomiya Line|- | style="text-align: left"| | | 新古河| style="text-align: right" | 20.6| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||| style="text-align: center; background: orange"||| rowspan="6"|  | rowspan="2"| Kazo|- | style="text-align: left"| | | 柳生| style="text-align: right" | 23.6| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||				||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 板倉東洋大前| style="text-align: right" | 25.6| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"|O| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|KG/KN*4・RV*4| Itakura| Gunma|- | style="text-align: left"| | | 藤岡| style="text-align: right" | 29.5| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||	|| rowspan="8"| Tochigi| rowspan="18"| Tochigi|- | style="text-align: left"| | | 静和| style="text-align: right" | 37.3| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 新大平下| style="text-align: right" | 40.1| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"|O| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 栃木| style="text-align: right" | 44.9| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"|O| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|KN/KG・RV・KF・JR| style="text-align: left" ||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 新栃木| style="text-align: right" | 47.9| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"|O| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|KN/KG*4・RV*4・KF| style="text-align: center" | |- | style="text-align: left"| | | 合戦場| style="text-align: right" | 50.0| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||	|| rowspan="10"|  |- | style="text-align: left"| | | 家中| style="text-align: right" | 52.4| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||	||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 東武金崎| style="text-align: right" | 56.6| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||	||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 楡木| style="text-align: right" | 61.2| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||| style="text-align: center; background: orange"||| rowspan="5"| Kanuma|- | style="text-align: left"| | | 樅山| style="text-align: right" | 64.2| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 新鹿沼| style="text-align: right" | 66.8| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"|O| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|KN/KG・RV・KF・JR|- | style="text-align: left"| | | 北鹿沼| style="text-align: right" | 69.8| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||	||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 板荷| style="text-align: right" | 74.9| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||	||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 下小代| style="text-align: right" | 78.5| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||| style="text-align: center; background: orange"||| rowspan="5"| Nikkō|- | style="text-align: left"| | | 明神| style="text-align: right" | 81.3| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|||- | style="text-align: left"| | | 下今市| style="text-align: right" | 87.4| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"|O| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|KN/KG・RV・KF・JR| style="text-align: center" | |- | style="text-align: left"| | | 上今市| style="text-align: right" | 88.4| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"||	||  |- | style="text-align: left"| | | 東武日光| style="text-align: right" | 94.5| style="text-align: center; background: silver"|O| style="text-align: center; background: magenta"|O| style="text-align: center; background: orange"|KG・RV・KF・JR| style="text-align: center" | |}Notes: O: Stop |: Non-stop 1: Terminating Services from on the Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line 2: Terminating Services from on the Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line via Tokyo Metro Hanzōmon Line 3: Terminating Services from 4: Partly Services stop at the stations A: to/from C: to/from S: to/from when named as JR History The Nikko Line opened (dual track and electrified) on 1 October 1929.^[3] In 1943, the section north of Kassemba was reduced to single track and the recovered rails used to build the Tobu Kumagaya Line.^[4] Electric limited express services first started operating from February 1949. From October 1960, new 1720 series "Deluxe Romance car" EMUs were introduced on limited express services to and from Nikko. From 1 June 1990, new 100 series "Spacia" EMUs were introduced on limited express services, and the maximum speed of these was raised to 120 km/h in 1992. A connecting track at was built to the JR-East Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) from 18 March 2006, allowing through-operations of Nikkō and Kinugawa limited express services to/from,, and . From 17 March 2012, station numbering was introduced on all Tobu lines, with Tobu Nikko Line stations adopting the prefix "TN" in orange.^[5] The former Skytree Train and 300 series limited express trains, Rapid, and Section Rapid services were discontinued from the start of the revised timetable on 21 April 2017.^[6] See also List of railway lines in Japan External links

Notes and References

1. https://www.tobu.co.jp/sl/data/pdf/news_20210114.pdf?20210115 Timetable
2. https://www.tobu.co.jp/sl/news/details/20200821.html Detail
3. Book: Terada, Hirokazu . データブック日本の私鉄 . Databook: Japan's Private Railways . Neko Publishing . July 2002 . Japan . 557. 4-87366-874-3.
4. Book: 歴史でめぐる鉄道全路線NO.5 東武鉄道２ . Railway Line History No. 5: Tobu Railway 2 . Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc . September 2010 . Japan . 24 . 978-4-02-340135-8.
5. Web site: http://www.tobu.co.jp/file/pdf/017af1e69f2ac63a8b2dea3d14de7a49/120209_1.pdf?date=20120313092459. ja:「東武スカイツリーライン」誕生！ あわせて駅ナンバリングを導入し、よりわかりやすくご案内します. Tobu Sky Tree Line created! Station numbering to be introduced at same time . 9 February 2012. Tobu News. Tobu Railway . ja. 26 May 2015.
6. Web site: http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2017/04/20/346/ . Ueshin . Daisuke . 20 April 2017 . Mynavi News . Mynavi Corporation . ja . ja:東武スカイツリーライン快速・区間快速ラストラン、300型が最後の定期運行 . Final run for Tobu Skytree Line Rapid and Section Rapid and last regular runs for 300 series . Japan . https://web.archive.org/web/20170427140644/http://news.mynavi.jp/news/2017/04/20/346/ . 27 April 2017 . live . 27 April 2017.