Scenic route
Enoden
Kamakura → Fujisawa · Japan
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Century-old seaside interurban that skims Shonan’s surf beaches and brushes past house walls; its Kamakurakokomae crossing is an anime shrine.
Stations
- 0 kmKamakura
- 1 kmWadazuka
- 1 kmYuigahama
- 2 kmHase
- 2 kmGokurakuji
- 3 kmInamuragasaki
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- 4 kmShichirigahama
- 5 kmKamakurakokomae
- 6 kmKoshigoe
- 7 kmEnoshima
- 7 kmShonankaigankoen
- 8 kmKugenuma
- 9 kmYanagikoji
- 9 kmIshigami
- 10 kmFujisawa +1
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1943301 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 2 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Enoshima Electric Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Enoden?
The Enoden runs 10 km from Kamakura to Fujisawa.
How long does the Enoden take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 34 min for the 10 km. That is an average of 18 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 45 km/h.
Who runs the Enoden?
Enoshima Electric Railway, with 300 / 500 series.
How old is the Enoden?
The line has been in service since 1902. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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