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Tsukuba Express

History

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Electrification and rolling stock

Operation

Ridership figures

References

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Future plans

Station list

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Railway line in Tokyo, Japan

Tsukuba Express

A Tsukuba Express train (TX-2000 series)
Overview
Native name	つくばエクスプレス
Status	In operation
Owner	Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company
Locale	Kanto Region
Termini	Akihabara Tsukuba
Stations	20
Service
Type	Commuter rail
Operator(s)	Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company
Depot(s)	Moriya
Rolling stock	TX-1000 series /TX-2000 series /TX-3000 series
Daily ridership	431,060 (daily 2015)^[1]
History
Opened	24 August 2005
Technical
Line length	58.3 km (36.2 mi)
Character	Urban
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DCoverhead catenary (Akihabara–Moriya) 20 kV AC, 50 Hz (Moriya–Tsukuba)
Operating speed	130 km/h (81 mph)

Tsukuba Express

Legend

Station stops

0.0

Akihabara

Chuo-Sobu Line

Yamanote Line
Keihin-Tōhoku Line

Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line

Toei Ōedo Line

1.6

Shin-Okachimachi

Toei Ōedo Line

Tokyo Metro Ginza Line

3.1

Asakusa

Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line

Sumidagawa Freight Terminal

Jōban Line

5.6

Minami-Senju

Sumida River

Keisei Main Line

Tōbu
Isesaki Line
│
Tokyo Metro
Chiyoda Line

7.5

Kita-Senju

Arakawa

Kosuge

Tōbu Isesaki Line

Jōban Line

Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line

10.6

Aoi

12.0

Rokuchō

15.6

19.3

22.1

Nagareyama Line

24.3

Nagareyama-centralpark

26.5

Nagareyama-ōtakanomori

30.0

32.0

37.7

Jōsō Line

depot

44.3

48.6

51.8

55.6

58.3

(video) Tsukuba Express line train

TheTsukuba Express (つくばエクスプレス,Tsukuba Ekusupuresu), orTX, is a Japanese railway line operated by thethird-sector companyMetropolitan Intercity Railway Company, which linksAkihabara Station inChiyoda, Tokyo andTsukuba Station inTsukuba, Ibaraki. The route was inaugurated on 24 August 2005.^[2]

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A comparison of Tsukuba Express withJōban Line and express bus service between Tokyo and Tsukuba

TheMetropolitan Intercity Railway Company (首都圏新都市鉄道株式会社,Shuto-ken Shin Toshi Tetsudō Kabushiki-gaisha) was founded on 15 March 1991 to construct the Tsukuba Express, which was then provisionally called theJōban New Line (常磐新線,Jōban Shinsen). The new line was planned to relieve crowding on theJōban Line operated byEast Japan Railway Company (JR East), which had reached the limit of its capacity. However, with the economic downturn in Japan, the goal shifted to development along the line. This was facilitated by the enactment of the Special Measures Law in September 1989 which allowed the expedition of large housing projects as well as the expansion and construction of new and existing railway lines.^[2]

During the early stages of construction, the construction company (Japan Railway Construction, Transport and Technology Agency, or JRTT) as well as associatedkeiretsu and associates in the public sector purchased land situated on the alignment of the route. Eventually, all the lots would be joined continuously, completed or not, and their ownership transferred to the eventual railway operator, MIRC.^[2] Construction of all stations were centered around the theme ofuniversal design.^[2]

Also, the initial plan called for a line fromTokyo Station to Moriya, but expenses forced the planners to start the line at Akihabara instead of Tokyo Station, and pressure from the government of Ibaraki Prefecture resulted in moving the extension from Moriya to Tsukuba into Phase I of the construction.

The original schedule called for the line to begin operating in 2000, but delays in construction pushed the opening date to summer 2005. The line eventually opened on 24 August 2005.^[3]

From the start of the revised timetable on 15 October 2012, new "Commuter rapid" (通勤快速,tsūkin kaisoku) services were introduced in the morning (inbound services) and evening (outbound services) peak periods.^[4]

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In September 2013, a number of municipalities along the Tsukuba Express line inIbaraki Prefecture submitted a proposal to complete the extension of the line to Tokyo Station at the same time as a new airport-to-airport line proposed as part of infrastructure improvements for the2020 Summer Olympics.^[5]

On 31 March 2023, four proposals for possible northern extensions were submitted to Ibaraki Prefecture governorKazuhiko Ōigawa.^[6] The proposals included plans to extend the line to either:

Tsuchiura Station on theJoban Line
Ibaraki Airport
Mito (viaIshioka Station) on the Joban Line
Mount Tsukuba

According to the proposals, the plan for the extension to Tsuchiura Station produced the most favourable cost-benefit analysis.

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The Tsukuba Express is operated as aone-man (conductorless) train. The driver opens and closes the doors manually, but operation of the train is doneautomatically. The line has a top speed of 130 km/h (81 mph). The Rapid service reduced the time required for the trip from Akihabara to Tsukuba from the previous 1 hour 30 minutes (by theJōban Line, arriving in Tsuchiura, about 15 km (9.3 mi) from Tsukuba) or 70 minutes (by bus, under optimal traffic conditions) to 45 minutes. From Tokyo, the trip takes 50–55 minutes. The line features nolevel crossings.

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To prevent interference with thegeomagnetic measurements of theJapan Meteorological Agency at its laboratory inIshioka, the portion of the line from Moriya to Tsukuba operates on alternating current. As a result, three train models are used on the line:TX-1000 series DC-only trains, which can operate only between Akihabara and Moriya, andTX-2000 series andTX-3000 series dual-voltage AC/DC trains, both of which can operate over the entire line.^[7]

Volume production of the line's initial rolling stock began in January 2004, following the completion in March 2003 of two (TX-1000 and TX-2000 series) six-car trains for trial operation and training. The full fleet of 84 TX-1000s (14 six-car trains) and 96 TX-2000s (16 six-car trains) was delivered by January 2005. New TX-3000 series trains built by Hitachi Rail entered service on 14 March 2020.

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Metropolitan Intercity Railway Company offers four types of train services on the Tsukuba Express:

: Local (普通,Futsū)
: Semi Rapid (区間快速,Kukan Kaisoku)
: Commuter Rapid (通勤快速,Tsūkin Kaisoku)
: Rapid (快速,Kaisoku)

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Trains stop at stations marked "●" and skip stations marked "|".

During the morningrush hour on weekdays, Semi Rapid trains bound for Akihabara make an additional stop at Rokuchō (marked "▲").

No.	Station name		Distance	Elec.	Local	Semi-Rapid	Commuter Rapid	Rapid	Transfers	Location
No.	Japanese	English	Distance	Elec.	Local	Semi-Rapid	Commuter Rapid	Rapid	Transfers	Ward / City	Prefecture
TX01	秋葉原	Akihabara	0.0 km (0 mi)	DC	●	●	●	●	JBChuo-Sobu Line JKKeihin-Tohoku Line JYYamanote Line Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line (H-16)	Chiyoda	Tokyo
TX02	新御徒町	Shin-Okachimachi	1.6 km (0.99 mi)		●	●	●	●	Toei Oedo Line (E-10)	Taitō
TX03	浅草	Asakusa	3.1 km (1.9 mi)		●	●	●	●	Tokyo Metro Ginza Line (atTawaramachi (G-18))	Taitō
TX04	南千住	Minami-Senju	5.6 km (3.5 mi)		●	●	●	●	JJJoban Line (Rapid) Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line (H-21)	Arakawa
TX05	北千住	Kita-Senju	7.5 km (4.7 mi)		●	●	●	●	JJ Joban Line (Rapid) TSTobu Skytree Line Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line (C-18) Tokyo Metro Hibiya Line (H-22)	Adachi
TX06	青井	Aoi	10.6 km (6.6 mi)		●	\|	\|	\|
TX07	六町	Rokuchō	12.0 km (7.5 mi)		●	▲	●	\|
TX08	八潮	Yashio	15.6 km (9.7 mi)		●	●	●	●		Yashio	Saitama
TX09	三郷中央	Misato-chūō	19.3 km (12.0 mi)		●	●	\|	\|		Misato	Saitama
TX10	南流山	Minami-Nagareyama	22.1 km (13.7 mi)		●	●	●	●	JMMusashino Line	Nagareyama	Chiba
TX11	流山セントラルパーク	Nagareyama-centralpark	24.3 km (15.1 mi)		●	\|	\|	\|
TX12	流山おおたかの森	Nagareyama-ōtakanomori	26.5 km (16.5 mi)		●	●	●	●	TDTobu Urban Park Line
TX13	柏の葉キャンパス	Kashiwanoha-campus	30.0 km (18.6 mi)		●	●	●	\|		Kashiwa
TX14	柏たなか	Kashiwa-Tanaka	32.0 km (19.9 mi)		●	\|	\|	\|		Kashiwa
TX15	守谷	Moriya	37.7 km (23.4 mi)		●	●	●	●	■Jōsō Line	Moriya	Ibaraki
TX16	みらい平	Miraidaira	44.3 km (27.5 mi)	AC	●	●	\|	\|		Tsukubamirai
TX17	みどりの	Midorino	48.6 km (30.2 mi)		●	●	\|	\|		Tsukuba
TX18	万博記念公園	Bampaku-kinenkōen	51.8 km (32.2 mi)		●	●	\|	\|
TX19	研究学園	Kenkyū-gakuen	55.6 km (34.5 mi)		●	●	●	\|
TX20	つくば	Tsukuba	58.3 km (36.2 mi)		●	●	●	●

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Fiscal year	Passengers carried (in millions)	Days operated	Passengers per day	Source
2005	34.69	220	150,000	^[8]
2006	70.69	365	195,000
2007	84.85	366	234,000
2008	93.21	365	258,000
2009	97.79	365	270,300	^[9]
2010	102.22	365	283,000	^[10]
2011	104.89	366	290,000	^[11]
2012	110.66	365	306,000	^[12]
2013	118.22	365	323,900	^[13]
2014	118.84	365	325,600	^[14]
2015	124.14	365	340,100	^[15]
2016	129.64	366	354,200	^[16]
2017	135.12	365	370,200	^[17]
2018	139.74	365	386,000	^[18]
2019	143.10	365	395,000	^[19]
2020	100.44	365	278,000	^[20]
2021	110.61	365	306,000	^[21]

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Semi-Rapid

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