I got on the "Toyama Light Rail Toyama Port Line" which improved LRT and greatly improved convenience

"LRT"(Light rail transit) is Japanese and"Lightweight trajectory trafficIt is a word translated as "Transportation with light weight class transportation capability" which is smaller than a general railway but larger than a bus. The famous Japanese case for the LRT is "Toyama Light Rail Toyama Port Line" which made the JR Toyama Port Line LRT.

Go up to Toyama with great painsToyama area railway - Take in the orbit of Toyama CityI tried to go up to Iwase Beach by stretching out a bit because I would not talk about not having to ride Toyama Light Rail Toyama Port, a famous presence in Japan 's LRT.

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◆ Toyama Station North Station - Okuda Junior High School Front Station
First, when the route is changed from JR to Toyama Light Rail, the route is changed and we will follow from the Toyama station North stop to Okuda Junior High School front station. Take the Toyama station to the south side, head towards the north exit via the underpass.


Following this underground square ......


Arrived at the north side of the station.


This part seems to be drawn diagonally from the street is Toyama station north stop of Toyama Light Rail. In terms of location, it may be more convenient for the JR age to change without leaving the station, but since the number of train operations has been transferred to the Toyama Light Rail in the first place, it has increased about three times So convenience is not comparable level. It is wonderful to have escaped from the unfortunate spiral of passengers getting away to other transportation ... because few passengers and fewer passengers and fewer passengers.


The vehicle is a TLR 0600 type nicknamed "Portram".


From here to the Ushijima-cho intersection the railway line is on the west side of the road, and the tracks are greening.


Turn right at the intersection of Ushijima-cho, the railway goes to the center of the road (Ayada Kitayo line of the city road).


Eventually you will see a big building on the right side of the sidewalk. This isINTECHead office building "Tower 111".


In front of that there is an INTEC HQ headquarters. This is a thing that INTEC bought a naming rights, and in addition to here there is Awashima (Osaka shop front shop) station where Osaka shop purchased naming rights.


It goes straight across the river. This combined track section was made by making the city road that had four lanes two lanes, and the traffic congestion of the car was considerable.


Continuing further, the railway is turning left after separating from the city road going straight ahead.


It is Okuda Junior High School Front Station that is located just after turning left.


The surrounding map looks something like this. Looking at the map, you can see that the dotted line continues to the right of the station and draws a loose curve. This is a former line trace until LRT.


When you shoot from the north side of the station like this, you can see a straight line as if the figure of an old railway line that was connected straight was floating apart from the current railroad track.


Looking at the station from the wheel stop side of the old track, it is like this. Once there was a railway crossing the city road, there was no Okuda junior high school front station. The time when the station was made was when it was converted to LRT.


The movie that Portram runs from before Okuda Junior High School to the front of the Intec headquarters is like this.

Toyama Light Rail Okuda Junior High School front → Intec headquarters front - YouTube


◆ Okuda Junior High School front - Toyama mouth waste trace
Although it is out of the main purpose, I tried tracing the waste trace because it is not long so long. The track passes through the west side of Okuda Junior High School and draws a loose curve.


However, from the place where I crossed the river to the place where it was diverted to the parking lot land etc.


As a road, it is over here.


As we go further, the waste traces covered with fences appear again.


However, it turned into a site for the parking lot again. It is a pattern that there was a railroad track part which is not the central parking space.


As I traced, it was a monthly parking lot after that ... ...


The railroad crossing part was peeping at the face from the asphalt.


Furthermore, when I walked further to Toyama side, originally there was a station in Toyama mouth, it should have reached Toyama station along with Hokuriku main line, but I used it as a site for establishing a temporary line due to Toyama station elevation It seemed to be.


In retrospect, you can see that most of the waste traces are reused as parking lots.


Iwasehama
The railway line in the north from Okuda Junior High School that I visited earlier is used as it is in the JR Toyama Port Line days.


So I will not stop on the way, I went to the Iwase beach station at the end.


There is nothing beyond here.


Train going back to Toyama station north


From Iwase beach to Toyama station north, run 7.6 km for 24 minutes. It is 23 minutes (5.7 km) from Waseda to Asuka mountain in the case of Ken Denki, and 21 minutes (6.0 km) from Tennoji Station to Abiko Road if it is the Hankyama Train.


The timetable looks something like this, the morning rush at 7 o'clock in one tenth, basically every 15 min pace.


A folding chair was installed in the waiting space of the station.


Wandering around the station, the next portam arrived at Iwasehama station.

Port tombs arriving at Toyama Light Rail Iwase Beach - YouTube


With the car inside like this, it is an ultra low floor car so you can get on and off with a wheelchair like a new model car in Toyama City orbit.


However, the chair intersects the direction of travelCross seatIt was characteristic that it was arranged.


It was uninhabited as I photographed while Iwase Hama station stopped, but when I got on the Toyama station north, there was something a bit difficult for me to stand between the cross seats, as people were gossipy. At the time of crowds like the Toyama city orbitLong seatI feel that arrangement is not a problem.


As I mentioned at Toyama city orbit, the toyama station surrounding development project is ongoing. To the completion of the project, Toyama Light Rail currently arriving and departing to the station in northern Toyama station will enter the Toyama station docking station on the Toyama City orbit line under the elevated. I do not know whether it will operate like Iwase Seki from the front of the university to Minamiyomyama station, but I am looking forward to completing the project.


It seems that regular users are grasping all the way due to improved convenience, and the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport announcedHeisei 24 Years of Railway StatisticsAccording to the report, the total number of passenger transport personnel is 1,949,000, a figure of 101% compared to the previous year.