Ikawa Line

Ikawa Line
A train on the Ikawa Line
Overview
LocaleShizuoka Prefecture
Termini
Stations14
Service
TypeHeavy rail
Operator(s)Ōigawa Railway
History
Opened1935; 89 years ago (1935)
Technical
Line length25.5 km (15.8 mi)
1.5 km (0.93 mi) rack portion
Track gauge1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
(Abt rack system)
Electrification1,500 V DC overhead
(rack portion only)
Route map

km
0.0
Senzu
1.1
Kawane-Ryōgoku
2.4
Sawama
Sumata River
3.9
Domoto
5.8
Kawane-Koyama
Signal Tunnel No. 9
440 m
Signal Tunnel No. 10
393 m
7.5
Okuizumi
Kawane Ichishiro
(
closed
1990
)
former line (
closed
1990
)
9.9
Abt Ichishiro
Dai-Kajima Tunnel
Ōkashima
Ōigawa Bridge No. 2
Ōi River
11.4
Nagashima Dam
Yosekura Tunnel
Kawane-Karasawa
12.6
Hiranda
Hirata Tunnel
old│new
Inuma
Okuōi Rainbow Bridge
Lake Sesso
13.9
Okuōikojō
Lake Sesso
tunnel 3
15.5
Sessokyō-Onsen
17.8
Omori
Sekinosawa Bridge
100 m
tunnel 5
20.5
Kanzō
Misakubo Tunnel No. 2
264 m
23.4
Kamekubo
(
closed
1971
)
tunnel 13
25.5
Ikawa
26.6
Dohira
(
closed
1971
)
km
Electrified rack section

The Ikawa Line (井川線, Ikawa-sen) is a railway line of the Ōigawa Railway. It runs from Senzu Station in Kawanehon, Shizuoka, the end station of the Ōigawa Main Line, and terminates at Ikawa Station in Aoi-ku, Shizuoka. The line has 61 tunnels and 51 bridges along its 25.5 kilometer length and includes the only rack-and-pinion railway section currently operating in Japan.