横浜線 (Yokohama Line) · Line introduction

Overview

The Yokohama Line (JH) connects Higashi-Kanagawa with Hachioji across 20 stations, threading the inland hills of Kanagawa. Its identity colour is the yellow-green of the 205 series, still the image most riders carry of the line. Despite the name, most of its length runs well away from the water.

Along the route

From Higashi-Kanagawa it reaches Kikuna and then Shin-Yokohama, a Tokaido Shinkansen stop and the line's most important interchange. From there it climbs northwest into the hills through Nagatsuta and Machida — two huge private-railway transfer points — then Sagamihara and Hashimoto, ending at Hachioji, the hub of the western Tama region.

Why play it

At 20 stations it sits comfortably in the middle: long enough to matter, short enough to retry. Names like Tokaichiba and Hachioji-minamino keep it interesting — a good stepping stone before taking on the really long lines.

Line data

Everything below is derived from the station data the game runs on, so it always matches what you actually type on the 横浜線 — all 20 stops of it.

Operator: JR East
Line symbol: JH
Stations: 20
Shape: Terminal to terminal
Termini: 東神奈川 — 八王子

How much typing is this?

Typing every station name on this line takes 173 keystrokes, an average of 8.7 per station. The longest name is 八王子みなみ野 (hachioji-minamino) at 17 keystrokes; the shortest is 矢部 (yabe) 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; 0 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 20 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 20 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	JH13	東神奈川	ひがしかながわ	higashi-kanagawa
2	JH14	大口	おおぐち	oguchi
3	JH15	菊名	きくな	kikuna
4	JH16	新横浜	しんよこはま	shin-yokohama
5	JH17	小机	こづくえ	kozukue
6	JH18	鴨居	かもい	kamoi
7	JH19	中山	なかやま	nakayama
8	JH20	十日市場	とおかいちば	tokaichiba
9	JH21	長津田	ながつた	nagatsuta
10	JH22	成瀬	なるせ	naruse
11	JH23	町田	まちだ	machida
12	JH24	古淵	こぶち	kobuchi
13	JH25	淵野辺	ふちのべ	fuchinobe
14	JH26	矢部	やべ	yabe
15	JH27	相模原	さがみはら	sagamihara
16	JH28	橋本	はしもと	hashimoto
17	JH29	相原	あいはら	aihara
18	JH30	八王子みなみ野	はちおうじみなみの	hachioji-minamino
19	JH31	片倉	かたくら	katakura
20	JH32	八王子	はちおうじ	hachioji