Kintetsu Hachiōji Line

Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway Hachiōji Line
Narrow gauge train at Nishihino Station
Overview
Type	Commuter rail
Locale	Yokkaichi, Mie Prefecture
Termini	Hinaga Nishihino
Stations	2
Operation
Opened	August 15, 1912
Operator(s)	Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway
Technical
Line length	1.3 km (0.81 mi)
Number of tracks	1
Track gauge	762 mm (2 ft 6 in)
Electrification	750 V DC Overhead line
Route map Nagoya Kintetsu Nagoya Line Kintetsu Yunoyama Line Kintetsu-Yokkaichi(Suwa) Nagoya Line Yunoyama-Utsube link - Closed 1964 Utsube Line Minami-HamadaClosed 1944 Akahori 0.0 Hinaga Hachiōji Line Utsube Line 0.6 HigashihinoClosed 1952, Abandoned 1969 1.3 Nishihino (II) 1.5 Nishihino (I) 1.8 ShimizubashiClosed 1952, Abandoned 1969 2.3 MuroyamaClosed 1974, Abandoned 1976 3.0 Ise-HachiōjiClosed 1974, Abandoned 1976 This diagram:

The Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway Hachiōji Line (四日市あすなろう鉄道八王子線^?, Yokkaichi Asunarō Tetsudō Hachiōji-sen) is a 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) narrow gauge railway line operated by the Japanese private railway company Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway, connecting Hinaga Station and Nishihino Station, both in the city of Yokkaichi, Mie, Japan. With a total length of 1.3 km.

The line connects with the Yokkaichi Asunarou Railway Utsube Line at Hinaga. Because all trains on the Hachiōji Line offer direct service to Asunarou Yokkaichi via the Utsube Line, the two lines are collectively called the Utsube-Hachiōji Line (内部・八王子線^?, Utsube-Hachiōji-sen).

The line is called the "Hachiōji Line" because it originally ran to Ise-Hachiōji Station, however for many years the endpoint has been Nishihino.

Until March 2015, the line was under control of Kintetsu, a major railway company.

The line was originally built as a tram utilising a track gauge of 762mm, which was relatively common at that time for such local lines. Later on the legal classification of the line was changed from a tram to a light rail, however the gauge was not widened, unlike the majority of 762mm gauge lines. Today, there are only four 762 mm (2 ft 6 in) gauge train lines in operation in Japan, and the Hachiōji Line is both the oldest and shortest of those four.