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.
- 川崎JK 京浜東北線JT 東海道線
- 武蔵小杉JO 総武快速・横須賀線JS 湘南新宿ラインTY 東横線MG 目黒線
- 武蔵溝ノ口DT 田園都市線OM 大井町線
- 登戸OH 小田原線
- 稲田堤KO 相模原線
- 府中本町JM 武蔵野線
- 分倍河原KO 京王線
- 立川JC 中央線JC 青梅線
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. | Station | Kana | Romaji |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | JN01 | 川崎 | かわさき | kawasaki |
| 2 | JN02 | 尻手 | しって | shitte |
| 3 | JN03 | 矢向 | やこう | yako |
| 4 | JN04 | 鹿島田 | かしまだ | kashimada |
| 5 | JN05 | 平間 | ひらま | hirama |
| 6 | JN06 | 向河原 | むかいがわら | mukaigawara |
| 7 | JN07 | 武蔵小杉 | むさしこすぎ | musashi-kosugi |
| 8 | JN08 | 武蔵中原 | むさしなかはら | musashi-nakahara |
| 9 | JN09 | 武蔵新城 | むさししんじょう | musashi-shinjo |
| 10 | JN10 | 武蔵溝ノ口 | むさしみぞのくち | musashi-mizonokuchi |
| 11 | JN11 | 津田山 | つだやま | tsudayama |
| 12 | JN12 | 久地 | くじ | kuji |
| 13 | JN13 | 宿河原 | しゅくがわら | shukugawara |
| 14 | JN14 | 登戸 | のぼりと | noborito |
| 15 | JN15 | 中野島 | なかのしま | nakanoshima |
| 16 | JN16 | 稲田堤 | いなだづつみ | inadazutsumi |
| 17 | JN17 | 矢野口 | やのくち | yanokuchi |
| 18 | JN18 | 稲城長沼 | いなぎながぬま | inagi-naganuma |
| 19 | JN19 | 南多摩 | みなみたま | minami-tama |
| 20 | JN20 | 府中本町 | ふちゅうほんまち | fuchu-honmachi |
| 21 | JN21 | 分倍河原 | ぶばいがわら | bubaigawara |
| 22 | JN22 | 西府 | にしふ | nishifu |
| 23 | JN23 | 谷保 | やほ | yaho |
| 24 | JN24 | 矢川 | やがわ | yagawa |
| 25 | JN25 | 西国立 | にしくにたち | nishi-kunitachi |
| 26 | JN26 | 立川 | たちかわ | tachikawa |
