Scenic route
Watarase Keikoku Railway
Kiryu → Manba · Japan
Watarase Keikoku Railway in pictures
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- Distance
- 44 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 29 km/h
- Top speed
- 75 km/h
- Operator
- Watarase Keikoku Railway
- Train
- WKT-500 · torokko
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1989
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Open-sided torokko trolleys wind up the Watarase gorge on the old Ashio copper-mine line, ablaze with wisteria and autumn maple.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1949287 — 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
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of WK
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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