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Tōhoku Main Line - History | | Tōhoku Main Line - History: Encyclopedia II - Tōhoku Main Line - History | | The construction of Tōhoku Main Line began in the Kanto region and extended to the north end of Honshu, and the city of Aomori. It is one of oldest railway lines in Japan, with construction beginning in the late 19th century. Until November 1, 1906 the current Tōhoku Main Line was run by a private company Nihon Tetsudo (Japan Railway). In 1883 the first segment between Ueno and Kumagaya opened. In 1885 it was extended to Utsunomiya, but the Tone River still had to be crossed by boat. It was not until the construction of the Tone Riv ...
See also:Tōhoku Main Line, Tōhoku Main Line - History, Tōhoku Main Line - Station List, Tōhoku Main Line - Utsunomiya Line, Tōhoku Main Line - Southern Tohoku Main Line, Tōhoku Main Line - Central Tohoku Main Line, Tōhoku Main Line - Northern Tohoku Main Line | | | Tōhoku Main Line, Tōhoku Main Line - Central Tohoku Main Line, Tōhoku Main Line - History, Tōhoku Main Line - Northern Tohoku Main Line, Tōhoku Main Line - Southern Tohoku Main Line, Tōhoku Main Line - Station List, Tōhoku Main Line - Utsunomiya Line | | |
| | | Tōhoku Main Line: Encyclopedia II - Tōhoku Main Line - History
Tōhoku Main Line - History
The construction of Tōhoku Main Line began in the Kanto region and extended to the north end of Honshu, and the city of Aomori. It is one of oldest railway lines in Japan, with construction beginning in the late 19th century. Until November 1, 1906 the current Tōhoku Main Line was run by a private company Nihon Tetsudo (Japan Railway). In 1883 the first segment between Ueno and Kumagaya opened. In 1885 it was extended to Utsunomiya, but the Tone River still had to be crossed by boat. It was not until the construction of the Tone River Bridge in 1886 that Utsunomiya and Ueno were finally directly connected. The line gradually extended further to the north; to Koriyama, Sendai, Ichinoseki and Morioka. In 1891 the segment between Morioka and Aomori opened and Aomori and Ueno were connected to each other in the longest continuous railroad line in Japan.
After 1906 it was nationalized and became the Tōhoku Main Line run by the Ministry of Railways. When Tokyo Station opened in 1925, the Tōhoku Main Line extended from Ueno to the new station. Until the 1950s this segment was used and many trains ran through both the Tokaido Main Line and Tōhoku Main Line. However, when the Tōhoku Shinkansen arrived, it used land previously reserved for the tracks of mid and long-distance Tōhoku Main Line trains. As a result, only several short-range trains such as the Kehin-Tōhoku Line now run to Tokyo from the north, making Tokyo Station's status as part of the Tōhoku Main Line somewhat circumspect.
In 2002 the Tōhoku Shinkansen was further extended from Morioka to Hachinohe and the operations of the local track segment between those two cities was turned over to two other companies. The shortened Tohoku Main Line is now the second-longest line in Japan, after the Sanin Main Line.
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