Overview

The Takasaki Line (JU) heads northwest from Omiya across the northern Saitama plain to Takasaki in Gunma, 19 stations in all. South of Omiya it shares both tracks and JU numbering with the Utsunomiya Line; beyond it the two part ways. Orange-and-green Shonan livery is the traditional look of the corridor.

Along the route

Past Omiya come Miyahara, Ageo and Okegawa — textbook Saitama commuter suburbs. Kumagaya is a Shinkansen stop and one of the hottest cities in Japan each summer. The line crosses the Tone River into Gunma for Honjo, Shinmachi and finally Takasaki, with Mount Akagi and Mount Haruna visible off to the west on a clear day.

Why play it

A medium-long 19-station run of mostly plain, two- or three-mora place names, so the pace stays even. As the Utsunomiya Line's twin, it's fun to run both back to back and compare.

Line data

Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 高崎線 — all 19 stops of it.

Operator
JR East
Line symbol
JU
Stations
19
Shape
Terminal to terminal
Termini
大宮 — 高崎

How much typing is this?

Typing every station name on this line takes 139 keystrokes, an average of 7.3 per station. The longest name is 北鴻巣 (kita-konosu) at 11 keystrokes; the shortest is 上尾 (ageo) 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; 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 0 end in ん, whose trailing n folds into whatever comes next rather than standing alone.

Where you can change trains

1 of the 19 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 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
1JU07大宮おおみやomiya
2JU08宮原みやはらmiyahara
3JU09上尾あげおageo
4JU10北上尾きたあげおkita-ageo
5JU11桶川おけがわokegawa
6JU12北本きたもとkitamoto
7JU13鴻巣こうのすkonosu
8JU14北鴻巣きたこうのすkita-konosu
9JU15吹上ふきあげfukiage
10JU16行田ぎょうだgyoda
11JU17熊谷くまがやkumagaya
12JU18籠原かごはらkagohara
13JU19深谷ふかやfukaya
14JU20岡部おかべokabe
15JU21本庄ほんじょうhonjo
16JU22神保原じんぼはらjimbohara
17JU23新町しんまちshinmachi
18JU24倉賀野くらがのkuragano
19JU25高崎たかさきtakasaki