Scenic route
Enoden
Kamakura → Fujisawa · Japan
Enoden in pictures
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- Distance
- 10 km
- Fastest time
- 34 min
- Average speed
- 18 km/h
- Top speed
- 45 km/h
- Operator
- Enoshima Electric Railway
- Train
- 300 / 500 series
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1902
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Century-old seaside interurban that skims Shonan’s surf beaches and brushes past house walls; its Kamakurakokomae crossing is an anime shrine.
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
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