The Tōbu Tōjō Line (東武東上線, Tōbu Tōjō-sen?) is a 75.0 km suburban railway line in Japan which runs from Ikebukuro Station in Toshima, Tokyo to Yorii Station in Yorii, Saitama, operated by the Tobu Railway. Its official name is the Tōbu Tōjō Main Line (東武東上本線, Tōbu Tōjō Honsen?), but it is referred to as Tōbu Tōjō Line (東武東上線, Tōbu Tōjō Sen?) on Tobu signage and publicity information.
The Tōjō Line and Tōbu Ogose Line branch are isolated from other Tobu lines, such as the Isesaki Line and Nikkō Line. There was a plan to connect between Nishiarai on the Isesaki Line and Kami-Itabashi on the Tōjō Line, but this was never built.
The name of the line comes from the original plan to construct a line linking Tokyo (東京?) with Jōshū (上州?) (an old province now Gunma Prefecture).
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“Their bodies are buried in peace; but their name liveth for evermore.”
—Apocrypha. Ecclesiasticus, 44:14.
The line “their name liveth for evermore” was chosen by Rudyard Kipling on behalf of the Imperial War Graves Commission as an epitaph to be used in Commonwealth War Cemeteries. Kipling had himself lost a son in the fighting.