Scenic route
Kurobe Gorge Railway
Unazuki Onsen → Keyakidaira · Japan
Kurobe Gorge Railway in pictures
Photographs by their authors, hosted on Wikimedia Commons · tap through for the licence
- Distance
- 20 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 15 km/h
- Top speed
- 25 km/h
- Operator
- Kurobe Gorge Railway
- Train
- Open torokko cars
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1953
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Dam-builders’ narrow-gauge torokko clinging to Japan’s deepest gorge: the full line to Keyakidaira returns in October 2026 after the Noto quake.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 12645510 — 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 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Kurobe Gorge Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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