The Odakyu Electric Railway Company, Ltd. ( 小田急電鉄株式会社 , Odakyū Dentetsu kabushiki gaisha ) , commonly known as Odakyū or Odawara Kyuko, is a major railway company based in Tokyo , Japan, best known for its Romancecar series of limited express trains from Tokyo to Odawara , Enoshima , Tama New Town , and Hakone .
20-599: [REDACTED] Look up o'er in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. OER or Oer may refer to: Odakyu Electric Railway , a Japanese railway company Oer family , a German noble family Oer-Erkenschwick , a town in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany Offense efficiency rating , the average number of points scored per shot by a basketball player Officer Evaluation Report , an evaluation form used by
40-512: A Lockheed Corporation style monorail system; the system was closed in 2001 when the amusement park was shut down. Since 2000, Odakyū has been adding track in both directions from Izumi-Tamagawa Station , on Tama River, the border station of Tokyo, to just outside Setagaya-Daita Station for expanding the availability of express trains, especially for morning commuter service. The lines between Setagaya-Daita and Higashi-Kitazawa Station are still under construction, however. Odakyu announced that
60-489: A fire on the compartment. The man escaped and was arrested hours later. Odakyu owns three railway lines directly, and another three lines via subsidiaries. It also operates trains onto the Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line , JR East Jōban Line , and JR Central Gotemba Line . (As of March 17, 2018 timetable revision) Romancecar limited express services require a supplementary surcharge. Commuter service
80-461: Is devastated to learn that she is his sister. Sakuma and Orie marry, while Yoshiki sets forth on a journey to forget. The success of the 1929 song "Tōkyō kōshinkyoku", sung by Chiyako Satō , led to the composure of a serialised novel by Hiroshi Kikuchi , the production of Mizoguchi's film by the Nikkatsu studio (while the novel was still unfinished), and even a stage play. Originally planned as
100-533: Is one of the left -leaning " tendency films " Mizoguchi made in the late 1920s. Only a fragment of the film exists today. Michiyo, an orphan and factory working girl, lives with her labourer uncle and his wife in Tokyo . When he loses his job, they decide to sell her as a geisha. In a dream, Michiyo remembers her deceased mother, a geisha who was in love with a customer who left her after Michiyo's birth. Yoshiki and Sakuma, sons of upper-class families, spot Michiyo in
120-544: Is shown on each line's page. Commuter services are shown on each line's page. The Odakyu Railway has been included in several Japanese language train simulator programs as well as the English language Microsoft Train Simulator program. Microsoft Train Simulator includes the railway's Odawara and Hakone Tozan lines, collectively referred to as the "Tokyo-Hakone" route, with the 2000 series commuter trainset and
140-474: The 7000 series "LSE" Romancecar trainset being player driveable. Several "activities", or scenarios, are included. Various Odakyu add-ins are available for the BVE Train Simulator, a freeware cab view train simulator for Microsoft Windows. Tokyo March Tokyo March ( 東京行進曲 , Tōkyō kōshinkyoku ) is a 1929 Japanese silent drama film directed by Kenji Mizoguchi . It
160-774: The Enoshima Electric Railway , Hakone Tozan Railway , Odakyu Bus [ ja ] , Odakyu Department Store [ ja ] , and Hyatt Regency Tokyo [ ja ] hotel. It is listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the Nikkei 225 . The 83 km (52 mi) line from Shinjuku to Odawara opened for service on 1 April 1927. Unlike the Odawara line, rarely were pre-World War II Japanese private railways constructed with double-track and fully electrified from
180-622: The Hakone Tozan Railway is 1,435 mm ( 4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in ) standard gauge , so one track of the section from Odawara to Hakone-Yumoto (6.1 km (3.8 mi)) was changed to a dual gauge system. Odakyu operated the first Romancecar ( 1710 series ) limited express in 1951. After the 1950s, due to rapid Japanese economic growth, Odakyu was faced with an explosive increase of population along with its lines. Commuter passengers had to use very crowded trains every morning, and complained strongly with
200-537: The Romancecar was celebrated in September 2007. Station numbers were introduced to all Odakyū Line stations in 2014, with stations numbered using the prefix "OH". Odakyu are the current shirt sponsors of football club Machida Zelvia . On 6 August 2021, a mass stabbing incident occurred on one of its commuter services when a man stabbed nine passengers , seriously injuring a woman before trying to ignite
220-550: The United States Army Open educational resources , open documents that are useful for teaching, learning, educational, assessment and research purposes Oregon Electric Railway , an interurban railroad line in Oregon, United States Örnsköldsvik Airport in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden Oxygen enhancement ratio , effect magnitude of ionizing radiation due to the presence of oxygen Oxygen Evolution Reaction ,
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#1732772952955240-408: The backyard of her uncle's house and both fall in love with her. Some time later, Michiyo has become a geisha and is now working under the name of Orie. Yoshiki's father, businessman Fujimoto, has developed a crush on Orie, but seeing the ring on her finger which she received from her mother, he realises that she is his daughter whom he once left behind. Yoshiki, who competed with Sakuma for Orie's love,
260-646: The bottle-neck will be resolved by 2013. All of its lines are double- or quadruple-tracked within Tokyo Metropolis as of March 2018 , a project first decided in December 1964 but due to NIMBY land acquisition difficulties, complex and expensive workarounds were constructed and finished, taking a half century. The main or Odawara Line acts as a bypass route for the Tōkaidō Main Line from Tokyo to western Kanagawa. The Romancecar 3000 series "SE"
280-541: The delay of improvements from the railway company. Odakyu began construction on the - "Shinjuku Station Great Improvement Project" setting 5 lines and 10 platforms long enough for 10 standard commuter cars with service on the Chiyoda Line, among others. Plans for a four-track system in 1964 were prevented by residents of Setagaya Ward in Tokyo, as such the system remains uncompleted. The Setagaya Residents' opposition set
300-509: The first day of operation. Two years later, on 1 April 1929, the Enoshima Line was added. The original full name of the railroad was Odawara Express Railway Company, Ltd. ( 小田原急行鉄道株式会社 , Odawara Kyūkō Tetsudō kabushiki gaisha ) , but this was often shortened to Odawara Kyūkō ( 小田原急行 , "Odawara Express") . The abbreviation Odakyu was made popular by the title song of the 1929 movie Tōkyō kōshinkyoku and eventually became
320-401: The formation of oxygen by electrochemical reduction of water Owner’s Equivalent Rent, an economic metric for housing prices often used in the calculation of market baskets Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title OER . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to
340-537: The intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=OER&oldid=1184996186 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Odakyu Electric Railway The Odakyu Electric Railway Company forms the core of the Odakyu Group , which comprises 101 companies (as of July 14, 2017) and includes
360-790: The official name of the railroad on March 1, 1941. On 1 May 1942, Odakyu merged with the Tokyo-Yokohama Electric Railway company (now Tokyu Corporation ), which controlled all private railway services west and south of Tokyo by the end of World War II . The company regained its independence on June 1, 1948, and it obtained a large amount of Hakone Tozan Railway stocks, instead of separating Keio Inokashira Line for Keio Corporation . Odakyu restarted Non-stop Limited Express service between Shinjuku and Odawara in 1948. In 1950, Odakyu trains ran through to Hakone-Yumoto on Hakone Tozan Line . Odakyu uses 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) narrow gauge tracks, but
380-483: The stage for a long-term and remarkable case in the courts and legislature. Odakyu could not take main part of transport from Tama New Town Area, though Odakyu started the operation of Tama Line in 1974. To serve its Mukōgaoka-Yūen Amusement Park, Odakyu operated the Mukōgaoka-Yūen Monorail Line between Mukōgaoka-Yūen and Mukōgaoka-Yūen-Seimon (1.1 km (0.68 mi), 2 stations) beginning in 1966 using
400-541: Was tested at speeds of up to 145 km/h (90 mph) in 1957, achieving a world record for narrow gauge 1,067 mm ( 3 ft 6 in ) lines at the time. These tests also provided important data on high-speed electric multiple units (EMU), which Japanese National Railways (JNR) used for its limited express EMUs, 151 series , and 0 Series Shinkansen introduced in the early 1960s. Odakyu celebrated its 80th anniversary in April 2007. The 50th anniversary of
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