Overview

The Nambu Line (JN) runs north–south along the left bank of the Tama River, joining Kawasaki to Tachikawa across 26 stations. Yellow is its identity colour. It never touches central Tokyo, yet it stitches together Kawasaki, Musashi-Kosugi, Noborito and Tachikawa — key nodes on every radial trunk line — making it the shortcut commuters quietly rely on.

Along the route

From industrial Kawasaki it soon reaches Musashi-Kosugi and its forest of new towers, one of the most transformed stations of the last two decades. Then comes a run of "Musashi-" stations — Nakahara, Shinjo, Mizonokuchi — followed by Noborito and Inadazutsumi, tracking the Tama River north to the Tama region's hub at Tachikawa.

Why play it

The repeated "Musashi-" prefix makes neighbouring station names easy to confuse, which is exactly what accuracy practice needs — and at 26 stations there's plenty of room for rhythm problems to surface.

Line data

Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 南武線 — all 26 stops of it.

Operator
JR East
Line symbol
JN
Stations
26
Shape
Terminal to terminal
Termini
川崎 — 立川

How much typing is this?

Typing every station name on this line takes 257 keystrokes, an average of 9.9 per station. The longest name is 武蔵溝ノ口 (musashi-mizonokuchi) at 18 keystrokes; the shortest is 久地 (kuji) 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: 1 names contain a small っ, which doubles the next consonant; 3 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

8 of the 26 stations on this line connect to another line in the game. Follow any symbol to that line's guide.

Marked with a star: 立川 — the major interchanges, which the maps always label and the game marks with a heavier arrival stamp.

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.StationKanaRomaji
1JN01川崎かわさきkawasaki
2JN02尻手しってshitte
3JN03矢向やこうyako
4JN04鹿島田かしまだkashimada
5JN05平間ひらまhirama
6JN06向河原むかいがわらmukaigawara
7JN07武蔵小杉むさしこすぎmusashi-kosugi
8JN08武蔵中原むさしなかはらmusashi-nakahara
9JN09武蔵新城むさししんじょうmusashi-shinjo
10JN10武蔵溝ノ口むさしみぞのくちmusashi-mizonokuchi
11JN11津田山つだやまtsudayama
12JN12久地くじkuji
13JN13宿河原しゅくがわらshukugawara
14JN14登戸のぼりとnoborito
15JN15中野島なかのしまnakanoshima
16JN16稲田堤いなだづつみinadazutsumi
17JN17矢野口やのくちyanokuchi
18JN18稲城長沼いなぎながぬまinagi-naganuma
19JN19南多摩みなみたまminami-tama
20JN20府中本町ふちゅうほんまちfuchu-honmachi
21JN21分倍河原ぶばいがわらbubaigawara
22JN22西府にしふnishifu
23JN23谷保やほyaho
24JN24矢川やがわyagawa
25JN25西国立にしくにたちnishi-kunitachi
26JN26立川たちかわtachikawa