片町線 (Katamachi Line) · Line introduction

Overview

The Katamachi Line (H), marketed as the JR Gakkentoshi Line, runs 24 stations from Kizu to Kyobashi. The nickname comes from Kansai Science City, the research town it skirts between Kizu and Kyotanabe. It no longer reaches the station it is named after: Katamachi, one stop beyond Kyobashi, closed in 1997 when the JR Tozai Line opened.

Along the route

From Kizu in Nara Prefecture it passes Hosono, JR-Miyamaki and Doshishamae for the university campus, then Kyotanabe, before climbing over the hills at Matsuiyamate into Osaka Prefecture. Tsuda, Kawachi-Iwafune, Shijonawate and Suminodo bring it down to Hanaten, Shigino and Kyobashi. It shares the H numbering with the JR Tozai Line, and nearly every train runs through and finishes far to the west.

Why play it

Twenty-four stations of genuinely tricky readings — kawachi-iwafune, konoike-shinden, shijonawate — plus hanaten, whose kanji give away nothing at all. The line for testing your reading instincts.

Line data

Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 片町線 — all 24 stops of it.

Operator: JR West
Line symbol: H
Stations: 24
Shape: Terminal to terminal
Termini: 木津 — 京橋

How much typing is this?

Typing every station name on this line takes 223 keystrokes, an average of 9.3 per station. The longest name is 鴻池新田 (konoike-shinden) at 16 keystrokes; the shortest is 木津 (kizu) at 4. 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; 4 contain a small ゃ, ゅ or ょ, where the engine accepts both the Hepburn and Kunrei spellings (sha or sya, shu or syu); and 4 end in ん, whose trailing n folds into whatever comes next rather than standing alone.

Where you can change trains

4 of the 24 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 24 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	H18	木津	きづ	kizu
2	H19	西木津	にしきづ	nishi-kizu
3	H20	祝園	ほうその	hosono
4	H21	下狛	しもこま	shimokoma
5	H22	JR三山木	じぇいあーるみやまき	jr-miyamaki
6	H23	同志社前	どうししゃまえ	doshishamae
7	H24	京田辺	きょうたなべ	kyotanabe
8	H25	大住	おおすみ	osumi
9	H26	松井山手	まついやまて	matsuiyamate
10	H27	長尾	ながお	nagao
11	H28	藤阪	ふじさか	fujisaka
12	H29	津田	つだ	tsuda
13	H30	河内磐船	かわちいわふね	kawachi-iwafune
14	H31	星田	ほしだ	hoshida
15	H32	寝屋川公園	ねやがわこうえん	neyagawa-koen
16	H33	忍ケ丘	しのぶがおか	shinobugaoka
17	H34	四条畷	しじょうなわて	shijonawate
18	H35	野崎	のざき	nozaki
19	H36	住道	すみのどう	suminodo
20	H37	鴻池新田	こうのいけしんでん	konoike-shinden
21	H38	徳庵	とくあん	tokuan
22	H39	放出	はなてん	hanaten
23	H40	鴫野	しぎの	shigino
24	H41	京橋	きょうばし	kyobashi