Sōbu Line (Rapid)

Sōbu Line (Rapid)
JO
Overview
Type 　Commuter rail
Locale Tokyo, Chiba prefectures
Termini Tokyo
Chiba
Stations 10
Daily ridership 693,998 (daily 2015)[1]
Operation
Opened 1972
Operator(s) JR East
Technical
Line length 60.2 km (37.4 mi)
Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification 1,500 V DC overhead catenary
Operating speed 120 km/h (75 mph)
Route map

The Sōbu Line (Rapid) (総武快速線, Sōbu-kaisoku-sen) is a railway service on the Sōbu Main Line in Tokyo and Chiba Prefecture, Japan, operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Tokyo Station in Chūō, Tokyo with Chiba Station in Chūō-ku, Chiba via the cities of Ichikawa, Funabashi, and Narashino.

Services

Rapid services on the Sōbu Line are primarily operated between Tokyo and Chiba, although there are many through services onto the Yokosuka Line as well as some through services operated from the Yokosuka Line via Tokyo terminating at Tsudanuma. During weekday morning peak periods Tokyo-bound trains arrive once every 3–4 minutes; this is reduced to 10 Chiba-bound trains per hour during weekday evening peak periods. At other times there are approximately six trains per hour. There are many through services operated onto other lines. In addition, there is an hourly Airport Narita rapid service that runs to Narita Airport, complementing the non-stop Narita Express service.

Commuter rapid trains, operated during weekday peak periods in the mornings and evenings, make fewer stops that normal rapid trains. There are two Zushi-bound trains from Narita in the morning and a single Narita-bound train from Tokyo in the evening.

There are five Home Liner Chiba commuter liner services that operate every weekday evening, four of which start from Tokyo and another which starts at Shinjuku. It stops at the stations shown in the list below (the service departing from Shinjuku stops once at Akihabara).

For information on the Narita Express, Shiosai, Ayame, and other limited express services, see their respective articles.

Sōbu Line (Rapid) trains travel through onto the Yokosuka Line to Ōfuna, Zushi, and Kurihama. Trains also travel through beyond Chiba to as far as:

Station list

  • For information on local services between Kinshichō and Chiba, see the Chūō-Sōbu Line article.
  • Trains stop at stations marked "●" and pass those marked "｜".
Station
No.		 Station Japanese Distance (km) Rapid Commuter
Rapid		 Home Liner
Chiba		 Transfers Location
Between
stations		 Total
Through services to JO Yokosuka Line for Yokohama, Ofuna, Zushi, Kurihama
TYOJO19
 Tokyo 東京 - 0.0 ● ● ●
Chiyoda Tokyo
JO20 Shin-Nihombashi 新日本橋 1.2 1.2 ● ● ｜
Chūō
JO21 Bakurochō 馬喰町 1.1 2.3 ● ● ｜
JO22 Kinshichō 錦糸町 2.5 4.8 ● ● ｜
Sumida
JO23 Shin-Koiwa 新小岩 5.2 10.0 ● ｜ ｜ JB Chūō-Sōbu Line (JB25) Katsushika
JO24 Ichikawa 市川 5.4 15.4 ● ｜ ｜ JB Chūō-Sōbu Line (JB27) Ichikawa Chiba
JO25 Funabashi 船橋 7.8 23.2 ● ● ●
Funabashi
JO26 Tsudanuma 津田沼 3.5 26.7 ● ｜ ●
Narashino
JO27 Inage 稲毛 9.2 35.9 ● ｜ ● JB Chūō-Sōbu Line (JB37) Inage-ku, Chiba
JO28 Chiba 千葉 3.3 39.2 ● ● ●
Chūō-ku, Chiba
Through services to:

■ Sotobō Line for Kazusa-Ichinomiya
 ■ Uchibō Line for Kimitsu
 ■ Narita Line for Narita and Narita Airport
Kashima Line for Kashima-Jingū via the Narita Line
 ■ Sōbu Main Line for Narutō

Note: Special Rapid service was discontinued on 4 March 2017.[2]

Rolling stock

Future : E235 series (fiscal 2020) [3]

References

  1. ↑ "平成27年 大都市交通センサス 首都圈報告書" (PDF). P.92. 国土交通省.
  2. ↑ 2017年3月ダイヤ改正について [Timetable revision in March 2017] (PDF) (in Japanese). Japan: East Japan Railway Company. Retrieved 18 January 2017.
  3. ↑ Daisuke, Kousaku (4 September 2018). JR東日本E235系、横須賀線・総武快速線へ車両新造 - 2020年度落成 [JR East E235 series for Yokosuka line and Sobu Rapid Line to be completed in 2020]. MyNavi Corporation (in Japanese). Japan: MyNavi Corporation. Archived from the original on 4 September 2018. Retrieved 5 September 2018.
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