Keisei Narita Airport Line

Keisei Narita Airport Line
Route
Gauge :	1435 mm ( standard gauge )
Power system :	1,500 V  ~
Top speed:	160 km / h
Legend Keisei-Ueno Keisei main line Nippori ← Keisei: Oshiage line Aoto 0.0 Keisei-Takasago Keisei: Kanamachi Line → Keisei depot ← Keisei main line 1.3 Shin Shibamata 3.2 Yagiri 4.7 Kita-Kokubun 6.2 Akiyama 7.5 Higashi matsudo ← JR East : Musashino Line → 8.9 Matsuhidai 10.4 Ōmachi Shin-Keisei : Shin-Keisei Line → Kita-hatsutomi 12.7 Shin Kamagaya ← Tōbu : Noda Line → ← Shin-Keisei: Shin-Keisei line 15.8 Nishi-Shiroi 17.8 Shiroi 19.8 Komuro 23.8 Chiba New Town Chūō 28.5 Inzai-Makinohara Hokusō depot 32.3 Inba-Nihon-Idai 40.7 Narita-Yukawa ← JR East: Narita Line (Abiko Branch) → ← JR East: Narita Line → ← JR East: Narita Line (Airport Branch) Keisei Higashi Narita Lineage 50.4 Narita Airport Terminal 2 Higashi-Narita Shibayama Tetsudō Line → 51.4 Narita Airport

The railway line Keisei Narita Airport Line ( Japanese 京 成 成田空港 線 , Keisei Narita-Kūkō-sen ) connects the Keisei-Takasago station with the airport station at Tokyo-Narita Airport . The route is operated by the private Keisei Dentetsu , which markets the new route under the name Narita Sky Access ( Japanese 成 田 ス カ イ ア ク セ ス , Narita sukai akusesu ).

history

When the construction of Tokyo Narita Airport began, Keisei Dentetsu already maintained a connection with the Keisei main line from Ueno to Narita city ​​center (about eight km from the airport). Therefore, between 1970 and 1972, it built an approximately 7.2 km long junction that connected the new airport underground. The airport Narita train station , however, was built between the two terminals 1 and 2, which made Keisei's Skyliner offer unpopular with passengers due to the need to switch to buses at the airport.

Plans by the Japanese State Railways (JNR) to connect the airport to Tokyo with the Narita Shinkansen failed due to the resistance of the local population and the state railroad's extreme debt. After JNR was privatized and split up , the preliminary construction work was transferred to Narita Airport Rapid Railway Co., Ltd. , a joint venture between JR East and Keisei Dentetsu. By 1991, the company had completed the nine-kilometer section that had been built for the Narita Shinkansen at the airport and connected it to the JR East and Keisei networks. The airport train station under Terminal 2 was also completed, which from then on was used by JR EAST for Narita Express (N'EX) and by Keisei for Skyliner.

At just under an hour, their travel time was twice as long as that of the previously planned Narita Shinkansen, because historically the old existing route did not take the shortest route to Tokyo and a large number of bends did not allow high speed. Since the JR companies concentrated on other projects after their privatization, in 2002 a. a. Narita Rapid Rail Access Co. Ltd. from the airport company Narita ( Japanese. 成 田 高速 鉄 道 ア ク セ ス 株式会社 ) to build a direct high-speed line from Tokyo to Narita , designed for 160 km / h . Construction began in 2006 and was completed in 2010. Of the now 51.4 km long line, 19.1 km are new lines; otherwise a shared section of the Hokusō line was upgraded. The existing routes in the approach to the airport and the underground railway systems at the airport could be used unchanged. A total of ¥ 126 billion was invested.

business

Keisei AE series between Imba-Nihon-Idai and Narita-Yukawa stations

The Keisei Narita airport line has been marketed by Keisei under the name Narita Sky Access since opening on July 17, 2010 . Trains from the Keisei AE series are used , which take 41 minutes to cover the 51.4 km route from Ueno train station to the airport. The Nippori Station where a transition to the Yamanote line is possible, the trains reached already after 36 minutes.

The premium offer on the route is still the Skyliner , which only stops at the airport train stations and in Nippori and Ueno. A one-way ticket costs ¥ 2,470. In addition, Keisei introduced the Access Express connection for the opening of the new route , which stops at all subway stations and, in addition to Ueno, runs from Aoto via the Oshiage , Asakusa and Keikyū airport lines to southern Tokyo and to Haneda Airport . A single journey on the Access Express costs ¥ 1,330.

Route

No.	railway station	Japanese	Access Express	Skyliner	Transfer options	place
KS10	Keisei-Takasago	京 成 高 砂	●	｜	Keisei main line	Katsushika	Tokyo
HS05	Higashi matsudo	東 松 戸	●	｜	Musashino line	Matsudo	Chiba
HS08	Shin Kamagaya	新 鎌 ヶ 谷	●	｜	Shin Keisei Line Noda Line	Kamagaya
HS12	Chiba New Town Chūō	千葉 ニ ュ ー タ ウ ン 中央	●	｜	Hokusō line	Inzai
HS14	Inba-Nihon-Idai	印 旛 日本 医 大	●	｜	Hokusō line
KS43	Narita-Yukawa	成 田 湯 川	●	｜		Narita
KS41	Narita Airport Terminal 2	空港 第 2 ビ ル	●	●	Narita Line (Airport Junction) Keisei Main Line
KS42	Narita Airport	成田空港	●	●	Narita Line (Airport Branch)

● = train stops at the station ｜ = train does not stop at the station

Web links

Commons : Keisei Narita Airport Line  - Collection of Pictures, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Narita Rapid Rail Access Co. Ltd .: project description (Japanese; accessed November 4, 2013)
2. ↑ KEISEI Electric Railway: Skyliner (English; accessed on March 26, 2018)
3. ↑ KEISEI Electric Railway: Access Express (English; accessed on March 26, 2018)