Tadami Line

The Tadami Line (只見線, Tadami-sen) is a railway line in Japan operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Aizu-Wakamatsu Station in Aizuwakamatsu, Fukushima with Koide Station in Uonuma, Niigata. The section between Aizu-Kawaguchi and Tadami has been closed since July 2011 due to rainstorm damage, with no definite reopening date fixed.

Tadami Line
KiHa 40 series DMUs pass at Aizu-Kawaguchi Station, March 2007
Overview
TypeHeavy rail
LocaleFukushima, Niigata prefectures
TerminiAizu-Wakamatsu
Koide
Stations38
Operation
Opened1928
Operator(s) JR East
Technical
Line length135.2 km (84.0 mi)
Track gauge1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
ElectrificationNone
Route map
Tadamigawa Bridge No. 1
Tadamigawa Bridge No. 3

Services
Linemap

All trains are local (all-stations) services, with approximately eight to nine trains in each direction per day. Only three round-trips operate over the entire line, and some seasonal trains operate through onto the line from the Ban'etsu West and Jōetsu lines.[1]

Due to the many curves on the line trains take over four hours to traverse its 135.2 km length.

Station list
  • All trains stop at every station.
  • Trains can pass each other at stations marked "◇", "∨", "∧"; they cannot pass at those marked "｜".
Station Japanese Distance (km) Transfers   Location
Between
stations		 Total
Aizu-Wakamatsu 会津若松 – 0.0 ■Ban'etsu West Line ∨ Aizuwakamatsu Fukushima
Nanukamachi 七日町 1.3 1.3   ｜
Nishi-Wakamatsu 西若松 1.8 3.1 ■Aizu Railway Aizu Line[* 1] ◇
Aizu-Hongō 会津本郷 3.4 6.5   ｜
Aizu-Takada 会津高田 4.8 11.3   ｜ Aizumisato, Ōnuma District
Negishi 根岸 3.5 14.8   ｜
Niitsuru 新鶴 2.0 16.8   ｜
Wakamiya 若宮 2.1 18.9   ｜ Aizubange, Kawanuma District
Aizu-Bange 会津坂下 2.7 21.6   ◇
Tōdera 塔寺 4.4 26.0   ｜
Aizu-Sakamoto 会津坂本 3.7 29.7   ｜
Aizu-Yanaizu 会津柳津 3.6 33.3   ｜ Yanaizu, Kawanuma District
Gōdo 郷戸 3.6 36.9   ｜
Takiya 滝谷 2.7 39.6   ｜
Aizu-Hinohara 会津桧原 1.9 41.5   ｜ Mishima, Ōnuma District
Aizu-Nishikata 会津西方 2.2 43.7   ｜
Aizu-Miyashita 会津宮下 1.7 45.4   ◇
Hayato 早戸 5.8 51.2   ｜
Aizu-Mizunuma 会津水沼 3.9 55.1   ｜ Kaneyama, Ōnuma District
Aizu-Nakagawa 会津中川 3.2 58.3   ｜
Aizu-Kawaguchi 会津川口 2.5 60.8   ◇
Honna 本名 2.8 63.6 Section closed since July 2011 ｜
Aizu-Kosugawa 会津越川 6.4 70.0 ｜
Aizu-Yokota 会津横田 3.2 73.2 ｜
Aizu-Ōshio 会津大塩 2.2 75.4 ｜
Aizu-Shiozawa 会津塩沢 5.5 80.9 ｜ Tadami, Minamiaizu District
Aizu-Gamō 会津蒲生 3.0 83.9 ｜
Tadami 只見 4.5 88.4   ◇
Ōshirakawa 大白川 20.8 109.2   ◇ Uonuma Niigata
Irihirose 入広瀬 6.4 115.6   ｜
Kamijō 上条 3.1 118.7   ｜
Echigo-Suhara 越後須原 4.4 123.1   ｜
Uonuma-Tanaka 魚沼田中 3.9 127.0   ｜
Echigo-Hirose 越後広瀬 2.5 129.5   ｜
Yabukami 藪神 2.1 131.6   ｜
Koide 小出 3.6 135.2 ■Jōetsu Line ∧
  1. All Aizu Line trains run through to Aizu-Wakamatsu Station.

History

The Aizu-Wakamatsu – Aizu-Yanaizu section opened between 1926 and 1928. The line was extended to Aizu-Miyashita in 1941.

At the western end, the Koide – Oshirakawa section opened in 1942.

The Aizu-Miyashita – Aizu-Kawaguchi section opened in 1956, with the extension to Tadami opening in 1963.

The two sections were connected with the opening of Tadami – Oshirakawa (as a passenger only section) in 1971.

Freight services ceased between 1980 and 1982.

  • C11 289 between Aizu-Nishikata and Aizu-Hibara, November 1973
  • C11 289 between Aizu-Miyashita and Aizu-Nishikata, November 1973

Service disruptions

Heavy rain storms in July 2011 forced the section of the line between Aizu-Kawaguchi and Ōshirakawa to be closed. The section between Tadami and Ōshirakawa was reopened from 1 October 2012, but the schedule for reopening the remaining section between Aizu-Kawaguchi and Tadami is estimated to be completed by 2021.[2][3] A replacement bus operates where the line is interrupted.

Rolling stock

References
  1. JR Timetable, December 2010 issue
  2. ＪＲ只見線　全線早期再開は困難 [JR Tadami Line: Early reopening of the entire line difficult]. MSN Sankei News (in Japanese). Japan: The Sankei Shimbun & Sankei Digital. 13 September 2012. Archived from the original on 16 September 2012. Retrieved 26 February 2013.
  3. https://jr-sendai.com/upload-images/2018/05/20180516.pdf JR East Release, 2018
Travel
Timetable
  • Timetable (Tadami Town Tourism Institute Planning Society)
Station list
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