You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages:
Niigata
Echigo
Takasaki
Oyama
Ageo
Ōmiya
The Jōetsu Shinkansen is one of the most complex lines
in the Shinkansen network, as it has to cross the mountain area. The middle part
of the line is almost completly in tunnels!
Between Tōkyō and Ōmiya, the train runs on Tōhoku Shinkansen line.
The Nagano Shinkansen trains use Jōetsu Shinkansen line between Ōmiya and Tagasaki.
Train names:
Toki is a bird, Japanese Crested Ibis.
Tanigawa has got its name from Mount Tanigawadake which the Jōetsu Shinkansen runs under.
Tunnels
Only tunnels longer than 2.500 meters
| Name | Length m | Between | and |
| Dai Shimizu | 22221 | Jōmō-kōgen | Echigo-Yuzawa |
| Haruna | 15350 | Takasaki | Jōmō-kōgen |
| Nakayama | 14857 | Takasaki | Jōmō-kōgen |
| Shiozawa | 11217 | Echigo-Yuzawa | Urasa |
| Uonuma | 8625 | Urasa | Nagaoka |
| Tsukiyono | 7295 | Jōmō-kōgen | Echigo-Yuzawa |
| Urasa | 6087 | Urasa | Nagaoka |
| Yuzawa | 4480 | Echigo-Yuzawa | Urasa |
| Horinouchi | 3300 | Urasa | Nagaoka |
| Ishiuchi | 3109 | Echigo-Yuzawa | Urasa |
| Takiya | 2669 | Urasa | Nagaoka |
| Daisan-Ōsawa | 2496 | Echigo-Yuzawa | Urasa |
You can find a Kitayama Rail Map for this line on this page:
Echigo
This line is used only during the winter
as it is serving a ski resort! The railway station is in the Ski Gondola terminal.
