Yûrakuchô-sen
1067 mm gauge, overhead current collection (direct current 1500 V). The Yûrakuchô-sen runs from the City of Wakô (Wakô-shi) northwest of Tôkyô in Saitama Prefecture (Saitama-ken) to Shin Kiba, an industrial port area by the Bay of Tôkyô. Length: 28, 3 km. The line was opened 1974 – 1988.
The Yûrakuchô-sen operates together with the Fuku Toshin-sen as far as 6 Kotake Mukaihara, from where it branches off towards central Tôkyô, but sharing the next two stations (7 Senkawa and 8 Kanamechô) with the Fuku Toshin-sen. At 6 Kotake Mukaihara some trains coming from Tôkyô continue via the Seibu Yûrakuchô-sen onto the Seibu Company’s Ikebukuro-sen to Tokorozawa and Hannô (and vice versa) (SEI). (Seibu)
The major stations are indicated by circles and are underlined here: 1 Wakô-shi 和光市 – 2 Chikatetsu Narimasu 地下鉄成増 – 3 Chikatetsu Akatsuka 地下鉄赤塚 – 4 Heiwadai 平和台 – 5 Hikawadai 氷川台 – 6 Kotake Mukaihara 小竹向原 – 7 Senkawa 千川 – 8 Kanamechô 要町 – 9 Ikebukuro 池袋 – 10 Higashi Ikebukuro 東池袋 – 11 Gokokuji 護国寺 –12 Edogawabashi 江戸川橋 – 13 Iidabashi 飯田橋 –14 Ichigaya 市ヶ谷 – 15 Kôjimachi 麹町 –16 Nagatachô 永田町 –17 Sakuradamon 桜田門 – 18 Yûrakuchô 有楽町 – 19 Ginza Itchôme 銀座一丁目 – 20 Shintomichô 新富町 –21 Tsukishima 月島 – 22 Toyosu 豊洲(where passengers can transfer to and from the automated guideway transit service Yurikamome) – 23 Tatsumi 辰巳 – 24 Shin Kiba 新木場.
As mentioned, Yûrakuchô-sen trains may run onto the Seibu Company’s Seibu Yûrakuchô-sen connecting line from 6 Kotake Mukaihara to Nerima via Shin Sakuradai and from there on to Tokorozawa and Hannô (see Seibu Company). Conversely, Seibu Company trains also work over the Yûrakuchô-sen. Seibu Company trains may also work up the Yûrakuchô-sen beyond Kotake Mukaihara as far as 1 Wakô-shi. Moreover, Tôbu Company trains (from the Tôbu Tôjô-sen) partly work right through from the Yûrakuchô-sen beyond 1 Wakô-shi as far as Shinrin Kôen, and on weekends to Ogawa-machi (see Tôbu Company) (TÔT, O). However, Seibu Company trains do not work onto the Tôbu railway.
