Yamagata Shinkansen

At Fukushima the Tsubasa swings off the trunk route and grinds over the Itaya Pass, a crossing so snowbound that rotary ploughs once ruled it. The stops beyond read like a craft fair: Yonezawa with its beef bentos, Tendō where most of Japan’s shōgi pieces are carved, Ōishida as the door to the gaslit lanes of Ginzan Onsen. Since 2024 the elegant E8 sets have been taking over, wearing a stripe of Yamagata safflower yellow.

Stations

1. 0 kmTokyo +9
2. 4 kmUeno +4
3. 31 kmOmiya +4
4. 80 kmOyama
5. 109 kmUtsunomiya
6. 214 kmKoriyama
7. Show 6 more stations

   1. 255 kmFukushima
   2. 296 kmYonezawa
   3. 306 kmTakahata
   4. 312 kmAkayu
   5. 331 kmKaminoyama-Onsen
   6. 343 kmYamagata
8. 356 kmTendo
9. 364 kmSakurambo-Higashine
10. 369 kmMurayama
11. 383 kmOishida
12. 404 kmXinzhuang

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. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

Along the way

• Itaya Pass snow country
• Yonezawa beef town
• Kaminoyama-Onsen castle town
• Tendō shōgi workshops
• Ōishida for Ginzan Onsen
• Shinjō festival float museum

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1950427: 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: JR East, 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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