Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Kodomonokuni Line

Kodomonokuni Line
Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Y000 series EMU near Onda
Overview
Native name	こどもの国線
Type	Heavy rail
Locale	Kanagawa Prefecture
Termini	Nagatsuta Kodomonokuni
Stations	3
Operation
Opened	1967
Owner	Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company
Operator(s)	Tokyu Corporation
Technical
Line length	3.4 km (2 mi)
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	1,500 V DC overhead catenary

The Kodomonokuni Line (こどもの国線, Kodomonokuni-sen^?) is a railway line in Kanagawa Prefecture owned by the Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company and operated by Tokyu Corporation.

All stations are located in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture.

All trains are based at Nagasuta Depot, accessed via a spur located before Onda Station.

The line opened in April 1967, at the same time as its 'parent' station, Nagatsuta. It is a single track local line designed principally to cater for visitors to Kodomonokuni Theme Park (Children's Land) park. Consequently, the two-car trains are particularly busy during summer weekends and holidays.

The line originally was built and opened as a transportation link to the park (which opened in 1965) from the Tōkyū Den-en-toshi Line. The Children's Land Association (Shakai Fukushi Houjin Kodomonokuni Kyokai) owned the right-of-way and the Kodomonokuni Station, but the actual operation was contracted out to Tokyu Corporation.

In 1997, the line was sold to Yokohama Minatomirai Railway Company (MMR), a joint venture of Tokyu Corporation, the Kanagawa prefectural government and the Yokohama city government. In 2000, an intermediate station, Onda, opened in Aoba-ku, Yokohama to reflect the changing role of this line as a commuter line. MMR today owns the right-of-way, Kodomonokuni and Onda stations and the rolling stock, but the actual operation continues to be contracted to Tōkyū.