is a 11.2 km railway line owned by the

Mizushima Rinkai Railway The is a third-sector railway company based in Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan. The company took over operation of three former Kurashiki City Transportation Bureau lines in 1970. It mainly transports freight for the industrial area around the Port o ...

, serving Kurashiki,

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. The line branches southward from the

San'yō Main Line The is a major railway line owned by JR Group companies in western Japan, connecting Kōbe Station and Moji Station, largely paralleling the coast of the Seto Inland Sea, Inland Sea, in other words, the southern coast of western Honshu. The Sa ...

, owned by

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, at Kurashiki-shi Station, ending in the industrial district of Mizushima. Originally an industrial railway for the military in Mizushima, passenger services began in 1948. The line switched hands three times before being owned and operated by the Mizushima Rinkai Railway.

Operations

The line is not electrified and is single-tracked for the entire line, with

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at Nishitomii, Yayoi, and Mizushima stations. Passenger rail services begin at Kurashiki-shi and terminate in Mizushima, except during rush hour and a few during the day, when it terminates in Mitsubishi-jikō-mae. Trains arrive roughly every 20 minutes.

Stations

References

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