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Tsugaru Line
Tsugaru Line along Mutsu Bay
Overview
Type	Heavy rail Passenger
Termini	Aomori Minmaya
Stations	18
Operation
Opened	1951
Owner	JR East
Rolling stock	KiHa 100 series
Technical
Line length	58.4 km (36.3 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	20 kV AC, 50 Hz (Aomori to Shin Naka-Oguni Signal)
Route map

Route diagram

Legend Aoimori Railway Line 0.0 Aomori 0.9 Takeuchi Signal Ōu Main Line Seikan Ferry 4.4 Shin-Aburakawa Signal 6.0 Aburakawa 9.7 Tsugaru-Miyata 11.5 Okunai 13.1 Hidariseki 14.7 Ushirogata 16.8 Nakasawa 19.1 Yomogita 21.1 Gōsawa 23.4 Seheji 27.0 Kanita 31.4 Naka-Oguni 33.7 Shin Naka-Oguni Signal Kaikyō Line (Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line) ↓non-electrified 35.0 Ōdai 46.6 Tsugaru-Futamata Tsugaru-Imabetsu 48.6 Ōkawadai 51.0 Imabetsu 52.7 Tsugaru-Hamana 55.8 Minmaya

The Tsugaru Line (津軽線, Tsugaru-sen) is a railway line operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connects Aomori Station and Minmaya Station on the Tsugaru Peninsula in western Aomori Prefecture.

The section of the line between Aomori Station and Naka-Oguni Station is a part of the Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line connecting Honshu and Hokkaido.

Station list

Legend

◇ - Trains can pass each other at this station

｜ - Trains cannot pass

The portion from Aomori and Naka-Oguni is electrified.

History

Plans existed to link the prefectural capital of Aomori with the northern tip of the Tsugaru Peninsula from the time of the Meiji period Railway Construction Act. In 1930, the privately held Tsugaru Railway began operations on the western side of Tsugaru Peninsula, and surveying work was completed by the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) to build a government-operated line on the eastern side of Tsugaru Peninsula. These plans were postponed by the outbreak of World War II, and were only resumed in the 1950s under the Japanese National Railways (JNR).

On December 5, 1951, the first segment of the Tsugaru Line was completed from Aomori to Kanita. This was extended by October 21, 1958 to the present northern terminus at Minmaya. Additional intermediate stations were added in 1959 and 1960.

All scheduled freight operations were suspended on December 10, 1984. With the privatization of the JNR on April 1, 1987, the line came under the operational control of JR East. From March 13, 1988, the tracks between Aomori Station and the Shin Naka-Oguni Signal are jointly used by JR East, JR Hokkaido's Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line and Japan Freight Railway Company (JR Freight).

In 1988 the Aomori - Shin Naka-Oguni section was electrified in conjunction with the opening of the Seikan Tunnel and associated Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line.

See also

• List of railway lines in Japan

References

This article incorporates material from the corresponding article in the Japanese Wikipedia.

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External links

• 
  JR East website (in Japanese)
  

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