Takayama Main Line

• Operators, distances:
• Total distance: {{convert|225.8|km|mi}}
• Central Japan Railway Company (Category 1)
• Gifu - Inotani: {{convert|189.2|km|mi}}
• West Japan Railway Company (Category 1)
• Inotani - Toyama: {{convert|36.6|km|mi}}
• Japan Freight Railway Company (Category 2)
• Inotani - Toyama: 36.6 km
• Railway signalling:
• Gifu - Inotani: Automatic
• Inotani - Toyama: Special Automatic, a simplified automatic system
• CTC center:
• Gifu - Inotani: Tōkai Operation Control Center
• Inotani - Toyama: Kanazawa Operation Control Center

The Hida limited express train operates between Nagoya and Takayama, Hida-Furukawa, and Toyama, with ten return services a day, and between Ōsaka and Takayama with one return service a day, with trains to and from Nagoya reversing direction at Gifu en route.

The line is generally divided to three parts for local services: between Gifu and Takayama; between Takayama and Inotani; and between Inotani and Toyama. There are roughly two trains per one hour between Gifu and Mino-Ōta, while there is no local train for four hours between Gero and Takayama.

Legend:

• ●: All trains stop
• ▲: Some trains stop
• ｜: All trains pass
• Local trains stop at all stations.

In Hichisō, Gifu. (Coordinates: {{coord|35.54514|137.144238|format=dms|display=inline|type:landmark_region:JP}} )

In Shirakawa, Gifu.

(Coordinates: {{coord|35.601801|137.173399|format=dms|display=inline|type:landmark_region:JP}} )

In Gero, Gifu.

(Coordinates: {{coord|35.680959|137.16673|format=dms|display=inline|type:landmark_region:JP}} )

In Gero, Gifu.

(Coordinates: {{coord|35.795115|137.253662|format=dms|display=inline|type:landmark_region:JP}} )

File:Koukan6.svg|Hisuikyō
A: Kamiasō
B: Shirakawaguchi

File:Koukan1.svg|Washibara
A: Shirakawaguchi
B: Shimoyui

File:Koukan5.svg|Fukurai.
A: Yakeishi
B: Hida-Kanayama

File:Koukan9.svg|Shōgano
A: Yakeishi
B: Gero

• KiHa 75 series DMUs
• HC85 series hybrid Diesel-Electric multiple units (Hida limited express services)
• KiHa 25 series DMUs (from March 2015)

• KiHa 120-300 DMUs

• KiHa 11 series DMUs (until March 2015)
• KiHa 40 series DMUs (until June 2015)
• KiHa 85 series

From the start of the March 2015 timetable revision, JR Central KiHa 25 series diesel multiple unit (DMU) trains displaced from the Taketoyo Line were phased in on Takayama Line services, with the last remaining KiHa 40 series DMU trains withdrawn from the line on 30 June 2015.{{cite web |url= http://railf.jp/news/2015/07/02/100000.html|script-title=ja: 高山本線からキハ40系が引退|trans-title=KiHa 40 series withdrawn from Takayama Main Line|date= 2 July 2015|work= Japan Railfan Magazine Online|publisher= Koyusha Co., Ltd.|location= Japan|language= ja|access-date= 2 July 2015}}

File:JRC-Kiha40-6300DC.jpg|A JR Central KiHa 40 series DMU, September 2004

File:JR Central Kiha25-3 at Okkawa.jpg|A KiHa 25 series DMU

File:JR DC Kiha120-318.jpg|A KiHa 120-300 DMU

The Gifu to Mino-Ota section opened in 1920, and the line was then extended in sections, opening to Gero in 1930 and Hida-Osaka in 1933. At the northern end the first section from Toyama opened in 1927, reached Inotani in 1930 and Takayama and Hida-Osaka in 1934, completing the line.

Between 2004 and September 8, 2007, the section between Tsunogawa Station and Inotani Station was closed due to flood damage from Typhoon Tokage.[http://jr-central.co.jp/co.nsf/news/nws2007521-173545 高山線全線の運転再開について (About resuming the operation of the whole Takayama Line)], news release by JR Central. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070623075943/http://jr-central.co.jp/co.nsf/news/nws2007521-173545 |date=23 June 2007 }}

• Hida-Osaka Station: The {{Track gauge|762 mm}} gauge Kosaka Forest railway commenced operation in 1933, and by 1953 consisted of seven lines with a total length of 65 km. Line closures commenced in 1954, and the system closed in 1971.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}
• Inotani Station: The {{Track gauge|610 mm}} 24 km line to Kamioka-Cho (which was opened in 1910 by the local government from Sasazu station) was acquired by the Mitsui Mining Co. in 1927. In 1931, a 2 km line to alter the connection to Inotani Station opened (with the 16 km section providing the Sasazu connection closing at the same time) and an 8 km branch opened in 1937, connecting to the {{Track gauge|762 mm}} gauge Sugoroku-Kanakida Forest railway (which consisted of a 16 km main line and three branches between 3 and 6 km in length, and operated from 1930 to 1963). Passenger services ceased in 1962, and the mine and railway closed in 1967.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}
• Sasazu Station: As mentioned above, the 610 mm gauge 24 km line to Kamioka-Cho operated from 1910 until altered to connect at Inotani station in 1931. The Toyama Railway operated a 12 km line to Minami-Toyama between 1914 and 1933. In 1943, the Toyama Electric Railway reopened the line, electrified at 600 V DC, and operated it until 1975.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}} The 20 km Kamioka Line to Okuhida-Onsenguchi opened in 1966. Freight services ceased in 1981, and the line closed in 2006.{{citation needed|date=July 2015}}

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