The Utsunomiya Line (宇都宮線, Utsunomiya-sen?) is the name given to a 159.9 kilometre section of the Tōhoku Main Line between Ueno Station in Tokyo and Kuroiso Station in Nasushiobara, Tochigi, Japan. It is part of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) network.
The line is proposed to be extended to Tokyo Station via the Tōhoku Jūkan Line currently under construction.
Read more about Utsunomiya Line: Services, Station List
Famous quotes containing the word line:
“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.