Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen

For now it is a bullet railway in miniature, reached by a same-platform hop from the Relay Kamome at Takeo-Onsen; even so, the 23-minute run is pure JR Kyushu theatre, with Eiji Mitooka’s wood-and-fabric interiors brightening even ordinary class. New stations serve Ureshino, a 1,300-year-old tea and hot-spring town that had never seen a railway, and bayside Ōmura on the way down to Nagasaki’s rebuilt terminus. The name revives the Kamome (“seagull”) expresses that linked Nagasaki to the network for generations.

Stations

1. 0 kmTakeo Onsen
2. 11 kmUreshino-Onsen
3. 32 kmShin-Ōmura
4. 45 kmIsahaya
5. 66 kmNagasaki

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.

Along the way

• Takeo-Onsen cross-platform interchange
• Ureshino tea terraces
• Ōmura Bay views
• Isahaya plain
• Nagasaki’s new Kamome terminus

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17313193: 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 6 m from it
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR Kyushu, 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

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