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 Station, and also passes through Tokyo and connects Utsunomiya City, Takasaki City, and Hiratsuka City, is innovative, and at first JR itself Perhaps they could not have predicted this, and the number of trains operated was small, but today it has become a major route comparable to the Tokaido Main Line.

In this video, we will run the Shonan-Shinjuku Line from Yokohama to Shinjuku. From Yokohama Station to Osaki Station, it runs on a track that was converted from a freight line, and trains on the Yokosuka Line also run on the same track, but perhaps because it was originally a line exclusively for freight, it still runs along a back street. You can feel the atmosphere. From Osaki Station, it runs parallel to the Yamanote Line, which circulates through central Tokyo. Trains running on the Yamanote Line also appear from time to time.

The Shonan-Shinjuku Line continues further north, but in this video it ends at Shinjuku Station. The Shonan-Shinjuku Line turns to the left after passing Tsurumi Station (a station where the Keihin Tohoku Line stops), which is passed at 4 minutes and 40 seconds in the video, and separates from the Tokaido Main Line and the Keihin Tohoku Line, and goes to the north side. Run the route. The freight station that appears on the left after 8 minutes and 30 seconds was once one of the largest freight terminals in the Tokyo metropolitan area, but due to changes in operating methods, it has become completely lonely.

Google map coordinates of Yokohama station
35.46606706178218, 139.6220868062812
Musashikosugi Station
35.57516746237555, 139.66327473390976
Osaki Station
35.62000825862228, 139.7282642989425
Shibuya station
35.65812104537448, 139.70172162778
Shinjuku station
35.69012906495885, 139.7003667834102
JR East homepage
https://www.jreast.co.jp/multi/en/
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