Tokyo General Rolling Stock Centre (near Ōsaki Station)
Rolling stock
E235 series
History
Opened
1 March 1885; 139 years ago (1885-03-01)
Technical
Line length
34.5 km (21.4 mi)
Number of tracks
Double-track
Track gauge
1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification
1,500 V DC overhead line
Operating speed
90 km/h (55 mph)
Train protection system
D-ATC
Maximum incline
3.4%
Route map
The Yamanote Line (Japanese: 山手線, romanized: Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban centres, including Marunouchi, the Yūrakuchō/Ginza area, Shinagawa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Ueno, with all but two of its 30 stations connecting to other railway or underground (subway) lines.
Internally JR East refers to the "Yamanote Line" as the quadruple-track 20.6 km (12.8 mi) corridor between Shinagawa and Tabata via Shinjuku.[1][2][3] The corridor consists of a pair of tracks used by Yamanote local trains and another parallel pair of tracks called "the Yamanote Freight Line" used by the Saikyō and Shōnan-Shinjuku line trains, some limited express services, and freight trains.[4] In everyday usage, branding on maps and station signage, the "Yamanote Line" refers to the local service (also called "system") running the entire 34.5 km (21.4 mi) line looping between the Yamanote corridor via Shinjuku Station and the central portions of the Tōhoku and Tōkaidō Main Lines Via Tokyo Station.[5] (This article uses the same definition unless noted otherwise.)
^"路線別ご利用状況（2014～2018年度）" [Usage by route (2014-2018)] (PDF). jreast.co.jp (in Japanese). JR East. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 June 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
^"線路別ご利用状況（2011～2015年度）" [Usage status by track (2011-2015)] (PDF). jreast.co.jp (in Japanese). JR East. Archived from the original (PDF) on 23 January 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2022.
^"山手線 命名100年－38年前に読み統" [Yamanote Line Naming 100-38 years ago]. Asahi Shimbun (in Japanese) (3rd evening ed.). 7 March 2009. p. 14.
^山手線電車100周年 [Yamanote Line 100th Anniversary]. Vol. 50. Koyusha CO., LTD. 1 February 2010. pp. 9–50. {{cite book}}: |work= ignored (help)
^命名100周年！山手線のヒミツ70 [100th anniversary of naming! The secret of the Yamanote line 70] (in Japanese). Japan: Ikaros Publications Ltd. 10 November 2009. ISBN 9784863202597.
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