Yamagata Shinkansen
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The Yamagata Shinkansen (山形新幹線) is a Mini-Shinkansen in Honshū, Japan, and is a part of the JR East railway company. It provides service between Tokyo Station and Shinjō Station (in the city of Shinjō in Yamagata Prefecture) over the tracks of the Tōhoku Shinkansen and the Ōu Main Line. The segment from Fukushima to Yamagata opened on July 1, 1992, and the extension to Shinjo began operating on December 4, 1999. The term Yamagata Shinkansen refers to the segment that connects Fukushima Station (in the city of Fukushima, Fukushima Prefecture) and Shinjō Station.
Trains consist of seven coaches. Series 400 and series E3 rolling stock are in use. Between Tokyo Station and Fukushima Station, the trains run coupled to Yamabiko trains on the Tōhoku Shinkansen. Between Fukushima and Shinjō, the trains run on their own.
The stations consist of those on the segment of the Tōhoku Shinkansen plus the following:
| Station | Japanese | Distance (km) from Fukushima |
Transfers | Location | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fukushima | 福島 | 0.0 | Tōhoku Shinkansen, Tōhoku Main Line, Ōu Main Line, Abukuma Express Line, Iizaka Line | Fukushima | Fukushima Prefecture |
| Yonezawa | 米沢 | 40.1 | Ōu Main Line, Yonesaka Line | Yonezawa | Yamagata Prefecture |
| Takahata | 高畑 | 49.9 | Ōu Main Line | Takahata | |
| Akayu | 赤湯 | 56.1 | Ōu Main Line, Flower Nagai Line | Nanyō | |
| Kaminoyama Onsen | かみのやま温泉 | 75.0 | Ōu Main Line | Kaminoyama | |
| Yamagata | 山形 | 87.1 | Senzan Line, Aterazawa Line, Ōu Main Line | Yamagata | |
| Tendō | 天童 | 100.4 | Ōu Main Line | Tendō | |
| Sakurambo Higashine | さくらんぼ東根 | 108.1 | Ōu Main Line | Higashine | |
| Murayama | 村山 | 113.5 | Ōu Main Line | Murayama | |
| Ōishida | 大石田 | 126.9 | Ōu Main Line | Ōishida | |
| Shinjō | 新庄 | 148.6 | Ōu Main Line, East Riku'u Line, West Riku'u Line | Shinjō | |
| Shinkansen |  |
|---|---|
| Lines: Tōkaidō • Sanyō • Tōhoku • Jōetsu • Hokuriku • Kyushu
Mini-Shinkansen: Yamagata • Akita • Future lines: Chūō • Hokkaidō • Cancelled lines: Narita Trainsets: 0 Series • 100 Series • 200 Series • 300 Series • 400 Series • 500 Series • 700 Series • 800 Series • E1 Series • E2 Series • E3 Series • E4 Series • Export trainsets: 700T Series • CRH2 • Future trainsets: N700 Series • FASTECH 360 |
