Yutorito Line

Yutorīto Line

Ōzone Station

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, 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, 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, Nagoya
Y05	Kanaya	守山市民病院	3.3 km	Station was originally called Moriyama Shiminbyōin after a publicly owned hospital, but was renamed when the hospital was privatised
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 sections.