Native name 京急空港線 Opened 1902 Number of tracks 2 Locale Tokyo | Type Commuter rail Line length 6.5 km (4.0 mi) Owner Keikyu Stations 7 | |
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Track gauge 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 ⁄2 in) Termini Haneda Airport Domestic Terminal Station | ||
The Keikyu Airport Line (京急空港線, Keikyū Kūkō-sen) is a 6.5 km commuter line operated in Japan by the private railway operator Keikyu. It connects Keikyu Kamata with Haneda Airport Domestic Terminal (at Tokyo International Airport) in Tokyo, and has Airport Express (エアポート急行), Limited Express (特急, 快特) and Airport Limited Express (エアポート快特) services, virtually all of which continue along the Keikyū Main Line either north to Shinagawa Station in central Tokyo with some trains continuing onto the Toei Asakusa Line, or south to Yokohama Station and onward towards Shinzushi Station.
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Service types
Keikyu operates the following different types of service, including all-stations "Local" trains.
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History
On 28 June 1902, the Keihin Railway opened the 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 1⁄2 in) gauge Anamori Line from Kamata to Anamori Station (穴守駅) (close to the present-day Tenkūbashi Station), electrified at 600 V DC. In 1904, the line was regauged to 1,372 mm (4 ft 6 in) in conjunction with the regauging of the Keikyu Main Line. The entire line was double-tracked in 1910.
On 20 April 1956, the line was extended to a new Haneda Airport Station (present-day Tenkūbashi Station), and from 1 November 1963 the line was renamed the Airport Line.
From 18 November 1998, the Airport Line was extended from Tenkūbashi to Haneda Airport Station (present-day Haneda Airport Domestic Terminal Station). Haneda Airport International Terminal Station opened on 21 October 2010.