Okinawa City Monorail Line
Info
Locale	Naha, Okinawa
Transit type	straddle-beam monorail
Number of lines	1
Number of stations	15
Daily ridership	35,000
Operation
Began operation	August 2003
Operator(s)	Okinawa Urban Monorail Incorporated
Technical
System length	12.8 kilometres

Yui Rail - Stations
Legend 0 Naha-k„k“ Station (Airport) 1.95 Akamine Station 2.71 Oroku Station 3.68 „noyama-k“en Station 4.52 Tsubogawa Station 5.33 Asahibashi Station 5.91 Kench--mae Station 6.63 Miebashi Station 7.61 Makishi Station 8.20 Asato Station 8.95 Omoromachi Station 9.96 Furujima Station 10.88 Shiritsu-by-in-mae Station 11.84 Gibo Station 12.84 Shuri Station All the stations are barrier-free design. [1]

Okinawa Monorail at Akamine, the southern-most rail station in Japan

The Okinawa City Monorail Line (, Okinawa Toshi Monor-ru^-), or Yui Rail (--, Yui R-ru^-), is a monorail line in Naha, Okinawa, Japan. Operated by Okinawa Urban Monorail Incorporated (-, Okinawa Toshi Monor-ru Kabushiki-gaisha^-), it opened on August 10, 2003, and is currently the only functioning public rail system in Okinawa Prefecture. It was also the first rail line on Okinawa since World War II.

Yui Rail

This monorail line is called Yui Rail (--, Yui R-ru^-). Both the nickname and its symbol mark were selected from public subscription.^[2] Yui Rail comprises 15 stations, running from Naha Airport in the west to Shuri (near Shuri Castle) in the east, running through the heart of Naha.^[3] The average distance between stations is 0.93 kilometers. It takes 27 minutes and costs ¥290 to traverse its entire length of 12.8 km.

Trains are made up of two cars, with 65 seats and a total capacity of 165 people^[4]. It runs on an elevated track between 8 and 20 meters above the ground. Its top speed is 65 km/h (about 40 mph), but it averages 28 km/h (17 mph) counting stops.

It boasts including both the westernmost rail station in Japan (Naha Airport station) and the southernmost (Akamine station).

An extension of the monorail is currently in the planning process^[5]. There are three short routes being considered.

Stations

References

1. ^ "about Barrier-free", yui-rail.co.jp (Japanese)
2. ^ "about Yui Rail", yui-rail.co.jp (Japanese)
3. ^ "Naha" (html). Retrieved on 2007-02-15.
4. ^ "Okinawa Monorail Photo Special Page 3" (html). Retrieved on 2007-02-15.
5. ^ "Route disagreements postpone monorail extension decisions." Weekly Japan Update. 9 November 2007. Accessed 8 January 2009.

See also

• Monorails in Japan
• List of rapid transit systems
• Rail transportation in Okinawa

External links

• Yui Rail official site