The
Odakyu Electric Railway Co., Ltd. is a major private railway company based in
Tokyo, Japan.
Its railway network in the western suburbs of
Tokyo consists of 3 lines with a total lenght
120 km. It is well known for its luxury "Romancecar" limited express services that need an additional charge to use. The holding company
Odakyu Group has also operations in real estate, finance, personal storage, travel sales, and bus service.
The
Odawara Line forms the main trunk line that extends from
Shinjuku in Tokyo to
Odawara in the
Kanagawa prefecture. It is a very busy commuter line with an incredible daily ridership of almost 1,5 million users.
At Shin-Yurigaoka the
Tama Line from Karakida and Tama-Center connects to the main line, while the
Enoshima Line branches off at Sagami-Ono. Both lines have through running trains to the Odawara Line.
At Yoyogi-Uehara there are direct through services to the
Chiyoda subway line to central Tokyo and furher to
Toride on the JR
Joban Line. Odawara, the western terminus, is the gate to the Izu-Hakone-National
Park. Some limited express trains run through to Hakone-Yumoto on the
Hakone-Tozan Railway, a subsidiary company of
Odakyu.
Train services are pretty various.
Local trains are stopping at all stations.
Section Semi
Express and Semi-Express services are skipping some stations in Tokyo and calling at all stations in the outer suburbs. Express and
Rapid Express trains have only a small number of stops, although they are calling at all stations between Hon-Atsugi and Shin-Matsuda in the outer suburbs.
Tama Express trains have the same stopping patterns as with Express trains with the execption that all trains are running through to the Chiyoda and Joban
Lines.
Limited Express trains have even less stops and provide fast and comfortable services on the most important lines.
The Odawara Line might be common to some simulator railfans, as it was included in
Microsoft Trainsimulator in
2001.
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This video shows only a small range of impressions of the daily railway operations of Odakyu. In case of further interest I can recommend videos of
"naha478" -
http://www.youtube.com/user/naha478
"Dotaku" - http://www.youtube.com/user/Dotaku
"
Japan Train Viewing" - http://www.youtube.com/user/LinkRailJapan/
and many others
At
Morning Rush Hour:
http://youtu.be/PAxXYoxs3QY
Driver's view of the entire Odawara Line:
http://youtu.be/xzjGg8kbcO4
Ride on a limited express (
VSE):
http://youtu.be/TFC8Rr0kC_U
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(
Japanese description coming soon hopefully ;) )
- published: 11 Nov 2014
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