The is a railway line in Japan operated by the "
third sector" publicly and privately owned operator Iwate Galaxy Railway Company. It connects
Morioka Station
Morioka Station ( ja, 盛岡駅, ) is a railway station in Morioka, Iwate Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by JR East.
Lines
Morioka Station is a major junction station, and is served by both the Tōhoku Shinkansen and the Akita Shinkansen. I ...
in
Morioka, Iwate
is the capital city of Iwate Prefecture located in the Tōhoku region of northern Japan. On 1 February 2021, the city had an estimated population of 290,700 in 132,719 households, and a population density of . The total area of the city is .
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Metoki Station
is a railway station in the town of Sannohe in the Sannohe District of Aomori Prefecture, Japan. It is operated by the third sector railway operators Aoimori Railway Company and Iwate Galaxy Railway Company.
Location
Metoki Station is the s ...
in
Sannohe, Aomori
is a town located in Aomori Prefecture, Japan. , the town had an estimated population of 9,814 in 4260 households, and a population density of 65 persons per km2. The total area of the town is .
Geography
Sannohe occupies an inland area in sout ...
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Formerly part of the
East Japan Railway Company (JR East)
Tohoku Main Line, it was separated from 1 December 2002 with the opening of the
Tohoku Shinkansen which parallels the route. JR Freight services continue to travel over the line.
Station list
Rolling stock
The Iwate Galaxy Railway Company owns a fleet of
IGR 7000 series 2-car
electric multiple unit
An electric multiple unit or EMU is a multiple-unit train consisting of self-propelled carriages using electricity as the motive power. An EMU requires no separate locomotive, as electric traction motors are incorporated within one or a numbe ...
(EMU) trains. The fleet consists of four 7000-0 series sets, which were originally JR East 701-1000 series sets transferred from Morioka in December 2002, and three newly built 7000-100 series sets.
History
The section of the line between Morioka and Metoki first opened on 1 September 1891, and was nationalized on 1 November 1906.
The line was double-tracked by 12 July 1968, and it was electrified on 22 August 1968.
With the privatization of
Japanese National Railways
The abbreviated JNR or , was the business entity that operated Japan's national railway network from 1949 to 1987.
Network Railways
As of June 1, 1949, the date of establishment of JNR, it operated of narrow gauge () railways in all 46 pref ...
(JNR) on 1 April 1987, the line came under the control of
East Japan Railway Company (JR East).
From 1 December 2002, with the opening of the parallel Tohoku Shinkansen extension to Hachinohe, ownership of the line was transferred to the third-sector Iwate Galaxy Railway Company.
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Railway lines in Japan
Rail transport in Iwate Prefecture
Standard gauge railways in Japan
Railway lines opened in 2002
2002 establishments in Japan
1067 mm gauge railways in Japan
Japanese third-sector railway lines