The is a railway line owned and operated by Hokuriku Railway in Ishikawa Prefecture

Ishikawa Prefecture

is a prefecture of Japan located in the Chūbu region on Honshū island. The capital is Kanazawa.- History :Ishikawa was formed from the merger of Kaga Province and the smaller Noto Province.- Geography :Ishikawa is on the Sea of Japan coast...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

. The line stretches 13.8 km from the city of Kanazawa

Kanazawa, Ishikawa

is the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.-Geography, climate, and population:Kanazawa sits on the Sea of Japan, bordered by the Japan Alps, Hakusan National Park and Noto Peninsula National Park. The city sits between the Sai and Asano rivers. Its total area is 467.77 km².Kanazawa's...

 to Hakusan

Hakusan, Ishikawa

is a city located in Ishikawa, Japan.The city was founded on February 1, 2005 from the merger of the city of Mattō with seven towns and villages from Ishikawa District. As of April 1, 2008 population data, the city has an estimated population of 110,654 and a density of 147 persons per km²...

 with a total of 16 stations.

Service

All service is by local trains that travel the entire length of the line, from Nomachi to Tsurugi; the trip takes approximately 30 minutes. During the New Year's Eve and New Year's Day holidays, the line was operated all night to move passengers to and from now-closed Kaga-Ichinomiya, where the nearby Shirayama-Hime Shrine draws crowds.

All trains are operated by drivers only; doors in the middle of each train car do not open.

Until November 30, 2006, there was daytime semi-express service between Nomachi and Tsurugi; trains stopped at Osano, Nonoichi, Sodani, and Oyanagi, making the trip in 25 minutes. This semi-express service was intended to move trains from one part of the line to the other in order to have a more balanced schedule.

On November 1, 2009, the section between Tsurugi and Kaga-Ichinomiya was closed.

History

• June 22, 1915: Ishikawa Electric Railway begins operating between Shin-Nonoichi and Tsurugi stations
• June 30, 1915: Ishikawa Electric Railway renamed to Ishikawa Railway
• December 1, 1916: Kami-Nonoichi Station opens
• August 1, 1921: Track gauge changed to 1,067 mm; electrified with 600 V DC overhead catenary
• October 1, 1922: Nishi-Kanazawa — Shin-Nonoichi section opened by Kanazawa Electric Railway, through operation with Ishikawa Railway starts
• May 1, 1923: Kanazawa Electric Railway absorbs Ishikawa Railway
• September 5, 1925: Hinomiko Station opens
• October 1, 1925: Nishi-Kanazawa Station renamed to Shiragikuchō Station; Shin-Nonoichi Station renamed to Shin-Nishi-Kanazawa Station; Kami-Nonoichi Station renamed to Nonoichi Station
• August 17, 1927: Sanjūgari Station opens
• December 28, 1927: Kinmei Railway opens Tsurugi — Jinjamae (now Kaga-Ichinomiya) section
• March 11, 1929: Tsurugi — Jinjamae section transferred to Kanazawa Electric Railway
• September 14, 1929: Tsurugi — Jinjamae section electrified
• December 1, 1934: Nishi-Izumi Station opens
• March 2, 1935: Awada Station opens
• August 1, 1937: Inokuchi Station opens
• December 8, 1937: Jinjamae Station renamed to Kaga-Ichinomiya Station
• August 1, 1941: Hokuriku Gōdō Electric (now Hokuriku Electric Power Company) established; merges with Kanazawa Electric Railway
• March 26, 1942: Hokuriku Gōdō Electric spins-off its transport division, establishes Hokuriku Railway
• February 1, 1943: Magae Station opens
• October 13, 1943: Hokuriku Railway, Kanaishi Electric Railway, Onsen Rail, Kinmei Railway, Noto Railway, etc. merge to form Hokuriku Railway
• October 23, 1944: Through operation with the Shōkin Line begins
• After 1946: Sanjūgari, Tsukihachi stations close
• June 2, 1949: Through operation with the Nōmi Line begins
• After April 1963: Awada Station renamed to Otomaru Station
• April 11, 1963: Kami-Nonoichi Station renamed to Kōsen-Mae Station
• July 15, 1965: Ōnuke Station renamed to Nuke-Jūtaku-Mae Station
• September 15, 1966: Kōsen-Mae Station renamed to Nonoichi-Kōdai-Mae Station
• April 1, 1970: Passenger operations on the Shiragikuchō — Nomachi section cease; freight-only operation continues
• September 20, 1972: Shiragikuchō — Nomachi section closes
• April 1, 1976: Freight operations cease
• September 14, 1980: Nōmi Line closes
• December 12, 1984: Kinmei Line operation stops
• April 29, 1987: Kinmei Line closes
• July 24, 1990: Driver-only operation begins
• 2002: Automatic Train Stop (ATS) system introduced
• December 1, 2006: Semi-express trains abolished; entire line changes to local-only operation
• November 1, 2009: Tsurugi — Kaga-Ichinomiya section closes

Rolling stock

Hokuriku Railway uses ten 7000 series (formerly Tokyu 7000 series) and eleven 7700 series (formerly Keio 3000 series) railcars on the Ishikawa Line. They are typically run in paired sets.

Stations

Station	Japanese	Distance (km)		Transfers	Location
		Between Stations	Total
	野町	-	0.0		Kanazawa Kanazawa, Ishikawa is the capital city of Ishikawa Prefecture, Japan.-Geography, climate, and population:Kanazawa sits on the Sea of Japan, bordered by the Japan Alps, Hakusan National Park and Noto Peninsula National Park. The city sits between the Sai and Asano rivers. Its total area is 467.77 km².Kanazawa's...
	西泉	1.0	1.0
	新西金沢	1.1	2.1	JR West: Hokuriku Main Line Hokuriku Main Line The is a 358.3 kilometer line of the West Japan Railway Company from Maibara Station in Maibara, Shiga to Naoetsu Station in Jōetsu, Niigata. It serves the Hokuriku region on the northern central coast of Honshū, the largest island of Japan, as well as offering connections to the regions of...
	押野	1.3	3.4		Nonoichi Nonoichi, Ishikawa is a city located in Ishikawa, Japan.As of February 2011, the city has an estimated population of 51,976 and a density of 3,830 persons per km². The total area is 13.56 km²....
	野々市	0.6	4.0
	野々市工大前	0.5	4.5
	馬替	1.0	5.5		Kanazawa
	額住宅前	0.6	6.1
	乙丸	0.7	6.8
	四十万	1.4	8.2
	曽谷	1.1	9.3		Hakusan Hakusan, Ishikawa is a city located in Ishikawa, Japan.The city was founded on February 1, 2005 from the merger of the city of Mattō with seven towns and villages from Ishikawa District. As of April 1, 2008 population data, the city has an estimated population of 110,654 and a density of 147 persons per km²...
	道法寺	0.6	9.9
	井口	0.8	10.7
	小柳	0.7	11.4
	日御子	0.7	12.1
	鶴来	1.7	13.8

Section closed in 2009

Station	Japanese	Distance (km)		Location
		Between Stations	Total
Tsurugi	鶴来駅	-	13.8	Hakusan
Nakatsurugi	中鶴来	0.8	14.6
Kaga-Ichinomiya	加賀一の宮	1.3	15.9