The is a railway line connecting Oyama Station in Tochigi Prefecture and Tomobe Station in Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan. The line is long and is owned and operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
Joban Line E501 series and E531 series ten car sets continue on to Iwaki, Fukushima while the 5 car sets go to Oyama. They separate at Tomobe.
Services are often run as one-man trains.
Station list All trains stop at every station. Trains can pass one another at stations marked "◇" and "∨" and cannot pass at stations marked "｜".
StationJapaneseDistance (km)Transfers LocationBetweenstationsTotal小山 -0.0 Tōhoku Shinkansen Tōhoku Main Line (Utsunomiya Line) Shonan-Shinjuku Line Ryomo Line∨OyamaTochigi小田林4.94.9 ｜YūkiIbaraki結城1.76.6 ◇東結城1.78.3 ｜川島2.110.4 ◇Chikusei玉戸2.112.5 ｜下館3.716.2 Moka Railway Mooka Line Jōsō Line◇新治6.122.3 ◇大和3.625.9 ｜Sakuragawa岩瀬3.729.6 ◇羽黒3.232.8 ◇福原4.237.0 ◇Kasama稲田3.140.1 ◇笠間3.243.3 ◇宍戸5.248.5 ｜友部1.750.2 Jōban Line (some through services for )◇
Rolling stock E501 series five-car EMUs E531 series five-car EMUs
Former rolling stock 415 series four-car EMUs (until March 2016)
History
The Mito Railway Co. opened the line on 16 January 1889 operating between Oyama and Mito Stations. On 1 March 1892, the Mito Railway Co. merged with the Nippon Railway.
On 1 July 1895, the Joban Line was opened by the Nippon Railway, joining the Mito Line at Tomobe Station. The company was nationalised in 1906.
On 12 October 1909, the Japanese Government Railways renamed the Tomobe to Mito section as part of the Joban Line, resulting in the current "Mito Line" being the section between Oyama and Tomobe.
The line was completely electrified on 1 February 1967.
Former connecting lines
Kasama Station: A 1.4 km gauge handcar line to the Kasama Inari shrine operated between 1915 and 1930.
References
External links
Stations of the Mito Line (JR East)