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Kaikyō Line

Freight railway line connecting Aomori and Hokkaido through the Seikan Tunnel
Place railway_line Q907716

Facts

23 properties

Identity

Instance of
railway line, freight railway line, Local Transport Line of JR[5][6]
Inception
March 10, 1988[16]

Location

Country
Japan[4]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 41.374°, 140.287°[17]
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Aomori Prefecture, Hokkaido[2][3]

Population and size

Length
+87.8
More facts +17
Owned by
Hokkaido Railway Company[7]
Connects with
Tsugaru Line
Crosses
Tsugaru Strait[11]
Date of official opening
March 13, 1988
Name in kana
かいきょうせん
Named after
Tsugaru Strait[10]
Operator
Hokkaido Railway Company, Japan Freight Railway Company[8][9]
Partially coincident with
Hokkaido Shinkansen[22]
Route diagram template
Wikidata item
SRGB color hex triplet
2CB431[12]
Speed limit
+140
State of use
in use
Terminus
Naka-Oguni Station, Kikonai Station, Shin-Naka-Oguni Signal Base[13][14][15]
Topic has template
Wikidata item[23]
Track gauge
1067 mm track gauge[21]
Train depot
五稜郭機関区[18]
Type of electrification
20 kV, 50 Hz AC railway electrification, 25 kV, 50 Hz AC railway electrification[19][20]
🏷️ Also known as
en Kaikyō Line de Kaikyō-Linie fr ligne Kaikyō id Jalur Kaikyō it linea Kaikyō ja 海峡線 ko 가이쿄선 uk Лінія Кайкьо zh 海峽線 zh-hans 海峡线
🔖 Identifiers · 6
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Inside seikan tunnel.JPG ↗
Freebase ID
/m/053k9t
NicoNicoPedia ID
海峡線
OpenStreetMap relation ID
1828051
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID
海峡線
Topic's main category
Category:Kaikyō Line

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🔗 Connections
← Connecting line 8
Twilight Express, Hokutosei, Okutsugaru-Imabetsu Station, Cassiopeia, Naka-Oguni Station, Tappi-Kaitei Station, Yoshioka-Kaitei Station, Shiriuchi Station
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Aomori Prefecture, Hokkaido
Operator 2
Hokkaido Railway Company, Japan Freight Railway Company
Terminus 2
Kikonai Station, Naka-Oguni Station
← Connects with 2
Esashi Line, Tsugaru Line
Connects with 1
Tsugaru Line
Country 1
Japan
Instance of 1
railway line
Located in time zone 1
Japan Standard Time
Named after 1
Tsugaru Strait
Owned by 1
Hokkaido Railway Company
Partially coincident with 1
Hokkaido Shinkansen
Track gauge 1
1067 mm track gauge
← Carries thoroughfare 1
Seikan Tunnel
← Item operated 1
Hokkaido Railway Company
← Partially coincident with 1
Hokkaido Shinkansen
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Summary

Kaikyō Line is a railway line[1].

Body

Geography

Located in include Aomori Prefecture[2], a prefecture of Japan[24], in Japan[25], founded in 1871[26] and Hokkaido[3], a prefecture of Japan[27], in Japan[28].

Physical Characteristics

Kaikyō Line's length is recorded as {'amount': '+87.8'}[29].

Related Entities

Japan

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  23. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [24] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  2. [25] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  3. [26] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  4. [27] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site
  5. [28] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 7w ago · RVA2869 · 2026-09-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in time zone → —
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/54291|batch #54291]]: redundant value: it should not have a time zone"
  2. 8w ago · Bouzinac · 2026-09-12 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    State of use → in use
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/53597|batch #53597]]: probably due to their P402"
  3. 14w ago · K8hishi · 2026-07-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Name in kana → かいきょうせん
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Name in kana: かいきょうせん, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/262512|batch #262512]]"
  4. 17w ago · DeltaBot bot · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    SRGB color hex triplet → 2CB431
    "/* wbsetclaimvalue:1| */ SRGB color hex triplet: 2CB431"
  5. 17w ago · Soren Bradley · 2026-07-06 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Located in → —
    Owned by → —
    Partially coincident with → Hokkaido Shinkansen
    Train depot → 五稜郭機関区
    + 27 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ SRGB color hex triplet: 2cb431"
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