Opened 1983; rubber-tyred guided transit system; single route with 13 stations.
Starting from a loop under Omiya station, the line runs north parallel to the Tohoku and then Joetsu shinkansen lines as far as Uchijuku, with a depot in the ‘V’at the junction of the two shinkansen routes at Marayuma.
- Address
- 288 Komuro
Inamachi
Kita Adachi-gun
Saitama-ken
Omiya 362-0806
Japan - Phone
- +81 48 722 1221
- Fax
- +81 48 722 1220
- Website
- www.new-shuttle.jp
Traffic
- Passenger journeys
- 17·7 million
- Information year
- 2015
Network data
- Gauge
- n/a - guideway, rubber-tyred vehicles
- Length
- 12·7 km
- Electrification
- 12·7 km - 600 V 50 Hz three-phase
- Rolling stock
- 60 Metro cars
