The Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line ( 津軽海峡線 , Tsugaru-Kaikyō-sen ) was a railway line in northern Japan that linked Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture and Hakodate Station in Hokkaido .
7-553: The Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line was actually made up of portions of four separate lines: the Tsugaru Line , operated by East Japan Railway Company , and the Kaikyō , Esashi , and Hakodate Main lines, operated by Hokkaido Railway Company . The name was created following the opening of the Kaikyō Line and Seikan Tunnel on 13 March 1988. The line name has been out of use since 26 March 2016 when
14-698: The Hokkaido Shinkansen opened and replaced the regular passenger services connecting Aomori and Hakodate on the Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line with high-speed services along the shinkansen line. The railway lines that formed the Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line continue to operate freight and passenger trains except for passenger trains on the Kaikyō Line section. The section of line between Naka-Oguni and Kikonai Station ceased operation for conventional line passenger trains like Hakuchō and Super Hakuchō and sleeper trains like Hokutosei, Cassiopeia, Twilight Express and Hamanasu by
21-595: The Tsugaru Peninsula in western Aomori Prefecture ; the section between Kanita and Minmaya has been indefinitely closed due to flood damage in 2022. The section of the line between Aomori Station and Naka-Oguni Station is a part of the Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line connecting Honshu and Hokkaido . Plans existed to link the prefectural capital of Aomori with the northern tip of the Tsugaru Peninsula from
28-523: 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
35-515: The 21 March 2015. Today this section is only operated by the Hokkaido Shinkansen , conventional line freight trains and the tourist train Shikishima . This article about a Japanese railway line–related topic is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Tsugaru Line The Tsugaru Line ( 津軽線 , Tsugaru-sen ) is a railway line operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It connected Aomori and Minmaya stations on
42-710: 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 Base 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 Signal Base section was electrified in conjunction with the opening of the Seikan Tunnel and associated Tsugaru-Kaikyō Line. After
49-522: 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
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