Yutorito Line

Guided busway in Nagoya, Japan

Meitetsu Bus
JR Tokai Bus Company

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Yutorīto Line (ゆとりーとライン, Yutorīto Rain) is a bus rapid transit line in Nagoya, Aichi, Japan. The line is officially called Guideway Bus Shidami Line (ガイドウェイバス志段味線, Gaidowei Basu Shidami-sen). Its official nickname, Yutorīto Line, is a portmanteau of yutori (ゆとり, "relaxed") and street (ストリート, sutorīto). As such, the name is also unofficially spelt Yutreet Line. The line is owned by Nagoya Guideway Bus Company, whose name is also often used as the alternative name for the line. The whole line opened on March 23, 2001.

Overview

The line consists of the guided bus segment on a viaduct dedicated track in central Nagoya and the ordinary bus segment on public road. Vehicles go directly between the two segments. The guided bus segment runs between Ōzone, Higashi Ward and Obata Ryokuchi, Moriyama Ward. Nagoya Guideway Bus manages the guideway facilities and cars, while Nagoya Municipal Bus operates buses on the line. This is the only guided bus line in Japan. The line is legally considered as a sort of railway, like monorails or automated guideway transits in the country.

Originally Meitetsu Bus and JR Central Bus also operated buses on the line. The two operators withdrew from the line on October 1, 2009.

Basic data

The data below is about the guided bus segment.

Distance: 6.5 km (4.0 mi)
Stations: 9
Double-track line: Whole line
Motive energy: Internal combustion engine

Routes

There are 4 routes operated, each on different normal bus segments.

Ōzone — Obata Ryokuchi
Ōzone — Obata Ryokuchi — Nakashidami
Ōzone — Obata Ryokuchi — Shidami Science Park — Nakashidami
Ōzone — Obata Ryokuchi — Kōzōji

Stations

The data below is about the guided bus segment.

No.	Station name	Japanese	Total distance	Transfers	Location
Y01	Ōzone	大曽根	0.0 km	JR Central: Chūō Main Line Meitetsu: Seto Line Nagoya City Subway: ■ Meijō Line (M12)	Higashi-ku, Nagoya
Y02	Nagoya Dome-mae Yada	ナゴヤドーム前矢田	1.0 km	Nagoya City Subway: ■ Meijō Line (M13)
Y03	Sunada-bashi	砂田橋	1.6 km	Nagoya City Subway: ■ Meijō Line (M14)
Y04	Moriyama	守山	2.7 km	Meitetsu: Seto Line (unofficial at Moriyama-jieitai-mae Station)	Moriyama-ku, Nagoya
Y05	Kanaya	金屋	3.3 km
Y06	Kawamiya	川宮	4.3 km
Y07	Kawamura	川村	5.1 km
Y08	Shirasawa Keikoku	白沢渓谷	6.0 km
Y09	Obata Ryokuchi	小幡緑地	6.5 km
Through services to/from ordinary bus routes.

External links

(in Japanese) Nagoya Guideway Bus official website
Driver's eye view of northbound direction. 5 July 2012. Archived from the original on 2021-12-21.
Another one, Driver's eye view of northbound direction in English version. 14 June 2021.^{[dead YouTube link]}

Mass transit in Nagoya (Chūkyō)

Nagoya Municipal Subway lines

Meitetsu lines

Owari (Western Aichi)	NH Nagoya TB Tsushima TB BS Bisai IY Inuyama KM Komaki ST Seto
Chita Peninsula	TA Tokoname/Airport KC Kōwa/Chita CH Chikkō
Mikawa (Eastern Aichi)	TK Toyokawa MU MY Mikawa TT Toyota GN Nishio GN Gamagōri
Mino (Southern Gifu)	KG Kakamigahara HM Hiromi TH Takehana TH Hashima

Kintetsu lines
(Osaka-Nagoya Line area)

E Nagoya
K Yunoyama
L Suzuka
M Yamada Toba Shima

JR Central lines

Shinkansen	Tōkaidō Shinkansen
Conventional lines	CA Tokaido CF Chuo CJ Kansai CD Iida CE Taketoyo CG Takayama CI Taita Kisei Sangū Meishō

Other lines

Minor private railways	Toyotetsu City line (Azumada) Atsumi Sangi Sangi Hokusei Yōrō Jōhoku
Third-sector railways	Aikan (Aichi Loop) Akechi Nagaragawa (Etumi South) Tarumi Ise AN Aonami Yokkaichi Asunarou Utsube Hachiōji L Linimo Guided bus Y Yutorito