Tôkyô To’ei Chikatetsu – Asakusa-sen 浅草線

0019 Asakusa-sen unit 5326 arriving at its endstop Inba Nihon Idai along the new (Keisei/Hokusô/Chiba New Town Rly.) main line to Narita Airport. It will return from here over the Asakusa-sen underground line and the Keikyû line to Haneda Airport. (2011) (click)

9690  The new Asakusa-sen unit 5512 at Tachiaigawa on the Keikyû Company's line between Shinagawa and Keikyû Kamata. (2023) (click)

Asakusa-sen  浅草線

1435 mm gauge, overhead current collection (direct current 1500 V). The Asakusa-sen runs from Oshiage in the east to Nishi Magome in the southwest of Tôkyô. Length: 18, 3 km. The line was opened 1960 – 1968.

The stations are: 1 Nishi Magome西馬込　– 2 Magome馬込　– 3 Nakanobu中延　– 4 Togoshi戸越　– 5 Gotanda五反田　– 6 Takanawadai高輪台　– 7 Sengakuji泉岳寺　– 8 Mita三田　– 9 Daimon大門　– 10 Shinbashi新橋　– 11 Higashi Ginza東銀座　– 12 Takarachô宝町　– 　13 Nihonbashi日本橋　– 14 Ningyôchô人形町　– 15 Higashi Nihonbashi　東日本橋　– 16 Asakusabashi浅草橋　– 17 Kuramae蔵前　– 18 Asakusa浅草– 19 Honjo Azumabashi本所吾妻橋　– 20 Oshiage　押上。

Asakusa-sen trains are joined to other standard (1435 mm) gauge railway lines, forming an important link between the two large Tôkyô airports, Narita and Haneda. In the east, Asakusa-sen trains continue from Oshiage over the lines of the Keisei Company, the Hokusô Company and the Chiba New Town Railway Company to the medical university Inba Nihon Idai and also further on via the Narita Sky Access line and the Narita Kûkô Kôsoku Tetsudô to Narita Airport. They also may continue from Narita to the Higashi Narita-sen (Keisei Company) and the Shibayama railway to Shibayama Chiyoda. Moreover, Asakusa-sen trains also travel over the Keisei Honsen via Keisei Tsudanuma and Sakura. Conversely, Keisei, Hokusô and Chiba New Town Railway Company trains work over the Asakusa-sen, mainly to Haneda Airport, which is reached via the Keihin Kyûkô Company’s line branching off at 7 Sengakuji.

In the southwest many services, worked by trains from various companies (Asakusa-sen trains proper, as well as Keihin Kyûkô, Keisei, Hokusô and Chiba New Town trains) branch off – as mentioned – at 7 Sengakuji onto the Keihin Kyûkô Company’s line to Keikyû Kamata and the Haneda Airport. Other services, including ones operated by Asakusa-sen trains, may continue over the Keihin Kyûkô line to Yokohama and even as far as Misakiguchi on the Miura Peninsula. Conversely, there is quite frequent operation of Keihin Kyûkô trains over the Asakusa-sen and beyond, all the way to Narita Airport.

There are also trains all the way from Narita Airport to 1 Nishi Magome.

0079 Nishi Magome, the western end of the line. A unit of the Keisei Company, no.3054, is waiting to return through the Asakusa-sen to Oshiage and from there along the Keisei main line (Keisei Honsen) to Keisei Sakura. Unit 3054 is decorated with airplane patterns to draw attention to the through Keisei services to Narita Airport. (2018)

0090 Asakusa-sen unit 5302 waiting at Nakanobu on its way to Nishi Magome. (2018)

0091 and 0092     Looking outside the Asakusa-sen station of Nakanobu. (2018) (click)

1167 Keisei Company unit 3751 is leaving Higashi Nakayama on the Keisei main line (Keisei Honsen), heading for Oshiage and the Asakusa-sen, over which it will run as an underground service to Nishi Magome. (2016)

6519 At Anamori Inari on the Keikyû Company's branch to Haneda Airport. On the left Chiba New Town Tetsudô unit 9121 has come from Chiba Prefecture and over the Keisei und Asakusa-sen underground lines to Sengakuji and from there over the Keikyû Company's line to Keikyû Kamata and onto the branch to Haneda Airport. On the right Keisei Company unit 7503 has come from Haneda Airport and will run over the Asakusa-sen and on into Chiba Prefecture to Inba Nihon Idai. (2023)

5268 A Keikyû Company unit entering the underground stations at Narita International Airport. The train has come from Haneda Airport via the Keikyû Haneda branch and the Keikyû main line to Sengakuji, from there it has worked as an underground Asakusa-sen service to Oshiage und then continued over the direct line via Imba Nihon Idai to Narita. (2016)

6612 Asakusa-sen unit 5518 leaving Anamori Inari for Haneda Airport, on the Keikyû Company's Haneda branch. (2023)