Overview
The Musashino Line (JM) traces a half-orbit around the outskirts of Tokyo, from Fuchu-Hommachi through southern Saitama to Nishi-Funabashi in Chiba across 26 stations. It was built as a freight bypass around the city centre, with passenger service added later — which is why freight trains are a common sight along it. Orange is its identity colour.
Along the route
From Fuchu-Hommachi it runs through Nishi-Kokubunji and Shin-Akitsu, tunnelling through the hills of Tokyo's northwestern fringe. In Saitama comes a run of interchanges with every radial trunk line — Minami-Urawa, Musashi-Urawa, Minami-Koshigaya — and Koshigaya-Laketown, home to one of Japan's largest shopping malls. Past Misato it crosses the Edo River into Chiba and finishes at Nishi-Funabashi.
Why play it
The station names lean hard on directional prefixes — Nishi-Urawa, Minami-Urawa and Higashi-Urawa arrive almost back to back. That makes this the easiest line in the game to fumble, and the ultimate accuracy test.
Line data
Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 武蔵野線 — all 26 stops of it.
- Operator
- JR East
- Line symbol
- JM
- Stations
- 26
- Shape
- Terminal to terminal
- Termini
- 府中本町 — 西船橋
How much typing is this?
Typing every station name on this line takes 323 keystrokes, an average of 12.4 per station. The longest name is 越谷レイクタウン (koshigaya-laketown) at 19 keystrokes; the shortest is 新座 (niiza) 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; 2 contain a small ゃ, ゅ or ょ, where the engine accepts both the Hepburn and Kunrei spellings (sha or sya, shu or syu); and 2 end in ん, whose trailing n folds into whatever comes next rather than standing alone.
Where you can change trains
12 of the 26 stations on this line connect to another line in the game. Follow any symbol to that line's guide.
- 府中本町JN 南武線
- 西国分寺JC 中央線
- 新秋津SI 西武池袋線
- 北朝霞TJ 東武東上線
- 武蔵浦和JA 埼京線
- 南浦和JK 京浜東北線
- 東川口SR 埼玉高速鉄道線
- 南越谷TS 東武スカイツリーライン
- 南流山TX つくばエクスプレス
- 新松戸JL 常磐線各駅停車
- 東松戸KS 成田スカイアクセス線HS 北総線
- 西船橋T 東西線JB 中央・総武線各駅停車TR 東葉高速線
Every station on the line
All 26 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 | JM35 | 府中本町 | ふちゅうほんまち | fuchu-honmachi |
| 2 | JM34 | 北府中 | きたふちゅう | kita-fuchu |
| 3 | JM33 | 西国分寺 | にしこくぶんじ | nishi-kokubunji |
| 4 | JM32 | 新小平 | しんこだいら | shin-kodaira |
| 5 | JM31 | 新秋津 | しんあきつ | shin-akitsu |
| 6 | JM30 | 東所沢 | ひがしところざわ | higashi-tokorozawa |
| 7 | JM29 | 新座 | にいざ | niiza |
| 8 | JM28 | 北朝霞 | きたあさか | kita-asaka |
| 9 | JM27 | 西浦和 | にしうらわ | nishi-urawa |
| 10 | JM26 | 武蔵浦和 | むさしうらわ | musashi-urawa |
| 11 | JM25 | 南浦和 | みなみうらわ | minami-urawa |
| 12 | JM24 | 東浦和 | ひがしうらわ | higashi-urawa |
| 13 | JM23 | 東川口 | ひがしかわぐち | higashi-kawaguchi |
| 14 | JM22 | 南越谷 | みなみこしがや | minami-koshigaya |
| 15 | JM21 | 越谷レイクタウン | こしがやれいくたうん | koshigaya-laketown |
| 16 | JM20 | 吉川 | よしかわ | yoshikawa |
| 17 | JM19 | 吉川美南 | よしかわみなみ | yoshikawa-minami |
| 18 | JM18 | 新三郷 | しんみさと | shin-misato |
| 19 | JM17 | 三郷 | みさと | misato |
| 20 | JM16 | 南流山 | みなみながれやま | minami-nagareyama |
| 21 | JM15 | 新松戸 | しんまつど | shin-matsudo |
| 22 | JM14 | 新八柱 | しんやはしら | shin-yahashira |
| 23 | JM13 | 東松戸 | ひがしまつど | higashi-matsudo |
| 24 | JM12 | 市川大野 | いちかわおおの | ichikawa-ono |
| 25 | JM11 | 船橋法典 | ふなばしほうてん | funabashi-hoten |
| 26 | JM10 | 西船橋 | にしふなばし | nishi-funabashi |
