常磐線各駅停車 (Joban Line (Local))

Overview

The Joban Line (Local) (JL) is the all-stops service from Ayase out to Toride, 14 stations in all. It through-runs with the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line — Ayase is the boundary between the two — so its emerald-green E233-2000 sets regularly disappear straight into the subway tunnels toward Yoyogi-Uehara.

Along the route

Ayase, Kameari and Kanamachi are classic Katsushika shitamachi (Kameari being the setting of Kochikame). Across the Edo River in Chiba come the Joban commuter towns — Matsudo, Shin-Matsudo, Kashiwa. The terminus, Toride, sits on the Tone River right at the doorstep of Ibaraki Prefecture.

Why play it

At 14 stations it's one of the shortest lines in the game — a run takes a minute or two, which makes it ideal for warming up, trying out a new input mode, or grinding repeated attempts at a personal best.

Line data

Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 常磐線各駅停車 — all 14 stops of it.

Operator: JR East
Line symbol: JL
Stations: 14
Shape: Terminal to terminal
Termini: 綾瀬 — 取手

How much typing is this?

Typing every station name on this line takes 119 keystrokes, an average of 8.5 per station. The longest name is 南柏 (minami-kashiwa) at 13 keystrokes; the shortest is 綾瀬 (ayase) at 5. Those counts come from running each name's kana through the game's own romaji engine, so they are what your fingers actually do — not the length of the printed spelling.

Along the way: 0 names contain a small っ, which doubles the next consonant; 0 contain a small ゃ, ゅ or ょ, where the engine accepts both the Hepburn and Kunrei spellings (sha or sya, shu or syu); and 0 end in ん, whose trailing n folds into whatever comes next rather than standing alone.

Where you can change trains

7 of the 14 stations on this line connect to another line in the game. Follow any symbol to that line's guide.

Every station on the line

All 14 stations in order, with the official station number, the name in kanji, the kana the typing is derived from, and its Hepburn romaji.

#	No.	Station	Kana	Romaji
1	JL19	綾瀬	あやせ	ayase
2	JL20	亀有	かめあり	kameari
3	JL21	金町	かなまち	kanamachi
4	JL22	松戸	まつど	matsudo
5	JL23	北松戸	きたまつど	kita-matsudo
6	JL24	馬橋	まばし	mabashi
7	JL25	新松戸	しんまつど	shin-matsudo
8	JL26	北小金	きたこがね	kita-kogane
9	JL27	南柏	みなみかしわ	minami-kashiwa
10	JL28	柏	かしわ	kashiwa
11	JL29	北柏	きたかしわ	kita-kashiwa
12	JL30	我孫子	あびこ	abiko
13	JL31	天王台	てんのうだい	tennodai
14	JL32	取手	とりで	toride