Overview

The Shonan-Shinjuku Line (JS) is the through-running rapid service that crosses the capital region north to south, from Omiya via Shinjuku down to Zushi across 19 stations. It isn't a railway of its own but an operating pattern stitching the Takasaki and Utsunomiya lines to the Tokaido and Yokosuka lines over existing tracks — and since its 2001 debut it has reshaped how people move between Saitama and Kanagawa.

Along the route

After Omiya, Urawa and Akabane it runs the golden corridor west of the Yamanote — Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, Shibuya — with no need to change trains downtown. Southbound it takes in Musashi-Kosugi, Yokohama and Totsuka before veering toward the old capital: Kita-Kamakura, Kamakura, and the terminus at Zushi near Sagami Bay.

Why play it

Nineteen stops, nearly all of them household names — Ikebukuro, Yokohama, Kamakura in a single string. It's the line to pick when you want flow and a fast time.

Line data

Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 湘南新宿ライン — all 19 stops of it.

Operator
JR East
Line symbol
JS
Stations
19
Shape
Terminal to terminal
Termini
大宮 — 逗子

How much typing is this?

Typing every station name on this line takes 154 keystrokes, an average of 8.1 per station. The longest name is 東戸塚 (higashi-totsuka) at 14 keystrokes; the shortest is 浦和 (urawa) 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; 1 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

19 of the 19 stations on this line connect to another line in the game. Follow any symbol to that line's guide.

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

Every station on the line

All 19 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
1JS24大宮おおみやomiya
2JS23浦和うらわurawa
3JS22赤羽あかばねakabane
4JS21池袋いけぶくろikebukuro
5JS20新宿しんじゅくshinjuku
6JS19渋谷しぶやshibuya
7JS18恵比寿えびすebisu
8JS17大崎おおさきosaki
9JS16西大井にしおおいnishi-oi
10JS15武蔵小杉むさしこすぎmusashi-kosugi
11JS14新川崎しんかわさきshin-kawasaki
12JS13横浜よこはまyokohama
13JS12保土ケ谷ほどがやhodogaya
14JS11東戸塚ひがしとつかhigashi-totsuka
15JS10戸塚とつかtotsuka
16JS09大船おおふなofuna
17JS08北鎌倉きたかまくらkita-kamakura
18JS07鎌倉かまくらkamakura
19JS06逗子ずしzushi