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The {{Nihongo|'''Kintetsu Yunoyama Line'''|近鉄湯の山線|Kintetsu Yunoyama-sen}} is a [[railway]] line of the [[
The line connects with the [[Kintetsu Nagoya Line]] and [[Kintetsu Utsube Line]] at Kintetsu-Yokkaichi Station.
==History==
===Yokkaichi Railway===
The Yunoyama Line was originally conceived and built by '''Yokkaichi Railway''' (四日市鉄道 ''Yokkaichi Tetsudō'') in the 1910s and was constructed with the purpose of both providing access within the city of [[Yokkaichi]] but also providing tourists access to the [[Yunoyama Onsen|Yunoyama]] area. The line was completed in 1913 and in 1916 an extension from the line's origin, {{ja-stalink|Kintetsu-Yokkaichi}} (at that time called [[Suwa Station]] and located slightly to the east), to [[Central Japan Railway Company|JR]] {{ja-stalink|Yokkaichi}} was added. However, this extension had a relatively short life as part of the Yunoyama Line as it was sold off to [[Ise Electric Railway]] (''Iseden'') in 1927, who utilized it for the extension of their [[Iseden Main Line|main line]] from Yokkaichi to {{ja-stalink|Kuwana}}. This made Suwa Station, a hub between three different private railways and the biggest station in Yokkaichi, the origin again. [[Steam engine]]s originally ran on the tracks however in the 1920s the line was [[Railway electrification system|electrified]], following a trend of many railways in the area.
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In 1954 the beginning of the route received a significant re-routing at the hands of Sanco, the owner at that time. The [[Kintetsu Nagoya Line]] suffered from many sharp curves on its way through Yokkaichi to Suwa Station. Kintetsu developed a plan to straighten the line as well as enlarge Suwa Station, which would be moved about a kilometer to the west; construction began in 1952 and took a few years to be completed. In accordance with this plan, Sanco altered its own Yokkaichi-area railways in 1956 to utilize the new location of Suwa Station, which was renamed to Kintetsu-Yokkaichi Station. From Nakagawara Station, the track that ran to the old Suwa Station was closed and a new track was built to Kintetsu-Yokkaichi. After this new section was completed, the Yunoyama Line originated from the part of Kintetsu-Yokkaichi Station where the Utsube Line still originates today; the two lines both had the same [[track gauge]] at that time and connected directly with each other.
About 10 years later, in 1964, when Sanden took over the railway, more improvements were carried out even though Sanden only owned the line for about one year. Yokkaichi Railway constructed the line with an especially narrow gauge of [[Narrow gauge railroad|{{RailGauge|762mm}}]], but in the interest of direct connection with the Kintetsu Nagoya Line, the technical specs of the line were altered to match those of the Nagoya Line; the Yunoyama Line gauge was widened to {{RailGauge|sg
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