The Suigun Line (水郡線, Suigun-sen?) is a Japanese railway line operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East), which runs between Mito Station in Ibaraki Prefecture and Asaka-Nagamori Station in Fukushima Prefecture, Japan. All trains on the line continue onto the Tōhoku Main Line to Kōriyama Station. The name of the line includes one kanji from each of the terminals, Mito (水戸?) and Kōriyama (郡山?).
A branch line runs from Kami-Sugaya Station to Hitachi-Ōta Station in Ibaraki Prefecture.
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—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
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