cabview Japanrailway Shonan-Shinjuku Line Yokohama Shinjuku

Cab view of the Shonan-Shinjuku Line. From Yokohama Station to Shinjuku Station. JR's Shonan-Shinjuku Line began operation in December 2001, and is not the line of that name, but the name given to the driving route. Up until then, the Tokaido Main Line had been used for commuting from the Shonan region, such as Hiratsuka City and Fujisawa City, to Tokyo, but the Shonan-Shinjuku Line was constructed using parallel freight lines. Passenger trains were run on freight tracks that are now underused, and instead of Tokyo Station, the terminal station on the Tokaido Main Line, they ran towards Shinjuku Station, which has a lot of passengers, and then north from here to Tochigi Prefecture. Trains run to Utsunomiya City, the prefectural capital, and Takasaki City, the prefectural capital of Gunma Prefecture. (Of course, there are also trains that run in the opposite direction.) The driving route, which runs towards Shinjuku Station instead of the conventional terminal of Tokyo Stati