Yurikamome

Yurikamome
A Yurikamome train near Shiodome in June 2007
Overview
Other name(s)U
Native name新交通ゆりかもめ
OwnerYurikamome, Inc. (direct)
Tokyo Rinkai Holdings Company, Ltd. (TRHC; indirect)
Tokyo Metropolitan Government (ultimate; largest shareholder in the TRHC)
[1]
LocaleTokyo, Japan
Termini
Stations16
Websiteyurikamome.co.jp
Service
TypeAutomated guideway transit
Operator(s)Yurikamome, Inc.
Depot(s)Ariake
Rolling stock7300 series, 7500 series
(6-carriage train)
Daily ridership133,000/day (FY 2018)[2]
History
OpenedNovember 1, 1995[2]
Technical
Line length14.7 km (9.1 mi)
Number of tracksDouble-track
Electrification600 V 50 Hz 3-phase AC Third rail
Operating speed60 km/h (37 mph)
Route map

km
km
Kachidoki E
 
proposed
JKJOJTJY AG
extension
 
Shimbashi
0.0
14.7
Toyosu Y
E Shiodome
0.4
14.0
Shin-toyosu
Izu Islands Takeshiba
1.6
13.5
Shijō-mae
Hinode
2.2
Ariake North Bridge
Shibaura-futō
3.1
12.7
Ariake-Tennis-no-mori
12.0
Ariake R
Odaiba-kaihinkōen
7.0
depot
Daiba
7.8
11.3
Tokyo Big Sight
Tokyo International
Cruise Terminal
8.4
Akemi Bridge
Telecom Center
9.2
10.2
Aomi
km
km

New Transit Yurikamome (新交通ゆりかもめ, Shinkōtsū Yurikamome), formerly the Tokyo Waterfront New Transit Waterfront Line (東京臨海新交通臨海線, Tōkyō Rinkai Shinkōtsū Rinkai-sen), is an automated guideway transit service operated by Yurikamome, Inc., connecting Shimbashi to Toyosu, via the artificial island of Odaiba in Tokyo, Japan, a market in which it competes with the Rinkai Line.

The line is named after the black-headed gull (yurikamome in Japanese),[3] a common denizen of Tokyo Bay and the official metropolitan bird.[4]

  1. ^ "Unmanned Tokyo transit line remains shut down". The Japan Times. 16 April 2006. Retrieved 25 May 2020.
  2. ^ a b "会社概要". YURIKAMOME Inc. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
  3. ^ Developing Metros. Transport Press. 1996. p. 6. ISSN 0268-5590. OCLC 12264501.
  4. ^ "Tokyo's Symbols". Tokyo Metropolitan Government. Retrieved 25 May 2020.