Nanao Line

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Nanao Line
A JR West 521-100 series EMU used on the Nanao Line
Overview
Owner	JR West
Locale	Ishikawa Prefecture
Termini	Tsubata Anamizu
Stations	20 (JR West), 8 (Noto Railway)
Service
Type	Regional rail
Operator(s)	JR West, Noto Railway
History
Opened	1898; 126 years ago (1898)
Technical
Line length	59.5 km (37.0 mi) (JR West), 33.1 km (20.6 mi) (Noto Railway)
Track length	87.5 km (54.4 mi) (JR West)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1500 V DC (Tsubata — Wakuraonsen)
Operating speed	100 km/h (60 mph)
Route map Legend IR Ishikawa Line to Kanazawa 0.0 Tsubata Hokuriku Line to Naoetsu 1.8 Naka-Tsubata 2.9 Hon-Tsubata 5.1 Nose 8.8 Unoke 11.8 Yokoyama 14.4 Takamatsu 17.8 Menden 20.9 Hōdatsu 24.2 Shikinami 26.7 Minami-Hakui 29.7 Hakui 33.8 Chiji 37.5 Kanemaru 41.1 Notobe 43.9 Yoshikawa 46.1 Noto-Ninomiya 48.9 Tokuda JR West Nanao Line 0.0 Nanao Shared right-of-way 5.1 Wakuraonsen Noto Railway Nanao Line 8.6 Tatsuruhama 12.7 Kasashiho 16.3 Noto-Nakajima 22.5 Nishigishi 26.8 Noto-Kashima 33.1 Anamizu Noto Railway Noto Line 44.1 Noto-Mii 49.1 Noto-Ichinose 53.5 Wajima

The Nanao Line (七尾線, Nanao-sen) is a railway line in Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan, operated by West Japan Railway Company (JR West) and the Noto Railway. It runs between Tsubata Station in Tsubata and Anamizu Station in Anamizu.

JR West operates the section between Tsubata and Wakuraonsen, while the Noto Railway (the second company with this name, see Former connecting lines section below) operates the section between Nanao and Anamizu. The section between Wakuraonsen and Nanao is served by both companies. A further section of the line between Anamizu and Wajima closed in 2001.

Before the transfer of the Wakuraonsen — Wajima section from JR West to Noto Railway in 1991, Noto Railway took control of another former Japanese National Railways (JNR) line in 1988, the Noto Line. It closed in 2005.

In 2015, the IR Ishikawa Railway took over the Hokuriku Main Line at Tsubata, effectively isolating the Nanao Line from the rest of the JR network; however, all JR West Nanao Line services continue to run through into the IR Ishikawa Railway to terminate at Kanazawa.