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The City of Sendai lies in the north-east of Honshu, Japan's main island, and has 730,000 inhabitants (1.3 million in metropolitan area).

Although the first decision for a metro was already taken in 1965, subway construction could not begin until 1983, and four years later the first line was put into service.

The first line 1 runs north-south, from Izumi City in the north through the city centre to the southern suburbs and is aproximately 15 km (12 km underground) and has 17 stations (14 underground) with 130 m long central platforms. The subway is operated by Sendai-shi Kotsu Kyoku and has 1067 mm gauge and 1500V DC overhead power supply. 4-car trains are used. All stations have elevators and escalators, station design is in harmony with the surrounding areas.

15-07-1987: Yaotome - Tomizawa
15-07-1992: Yaotome - Izumi-Chuo

 Tozai Line

The second line runs east-west for 13.9 km, with 13 stations, all underground. This line uses linear motor technology just like Tokyo's O-Edo Line. Construction having started in 2004, the line finally opened on 6 Dec. 2015!

06 Dec 2015: Yagiyama-Dobutsu-Koen - Arai

Sendai City Transportation Bureau

Tozai Line Project

Sendai Subway at Wikipedia

 Book

Andrew Phipps & Robert Schwandl:

NEW: METROS & TRAMS in JAPAN Vol. 2: Nord- und Zentraljapan | North & Central Japan

Metros in Sapporo, Sendai and Nagoya as well as trams in Hakodate, Toyama, Fukui, Takaoka, Toyohashi, Kochi, Matsuyama plus various other urban rail systems in North & Central Japan

144 pages; Network maps; ca. 300 colour photos
Text deutsch & English
ISBN 978 3 936573 52 7
03/2017

The second volume of our trilogy about urban rail systems in Japan covers all the systems in North and Central Japan, from the metros in Sapporo, Sendai and Nagoya to the numerous tram networks and various private suburban railways. This volume also includes all the cities with urban rail systems on the islands of Shikoku and Okinawa. As usual, the book is illustrated with a large number of recent colour photos and detailed network maps.