Scenic route
Isumi Railway
Ohara → Kazusa-Nakano · Japan
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Restored 1960s diesel railcars trundle past rice paddies and spring nanohana blossoms through the rural heart of the Boso Peninsula.
Stations
- 0 kmKazusa-Nakano
- 2 kmNishihata
- 5 kmFusamoto
- 6 kmKugahara
- 7 kmHigashi-Fusamoto
- 9 kmKoyamatsu
- 11 kmOtaki
- 12 kmShiromigaoka
- 15 kmKazusa-Nakagawa
- 18 kmKuniyoshi
- 19 kmNittano
- 22 kmKazusa-Azuma
- 25 kmNishi-Ohara
- 27 kmOhara
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.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 5748913 — 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 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Isumi 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 Isumi Railway?
The Isumi Railway runs 27 km from Ohara to Kazusa-Nakano.
How long does the Isumi Railway take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 50 min for the 27 km. That is an average of 32 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 65 km/h.
Who runs the Isumi Railway?
Isumi Railway, with KiHa 52, 28.
How old is the Isumi Railway?
The line has been in service since 1988. 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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