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Naha lies on the Japanese island of Okinawa (some 1000 km southwest of Tokyo).

The original 12.8 km monorail line with 15 stations was built to link the airport to the city centre and Tera. Trains were provided by Hitachi and can carry 165 passengers. The name “Yui Rail” and its logo were a result of a public contest. In Okinawan dialect “yui” means an Okinawan tradition of helping each other.

Station names and distances:

Naha Kuko (Airport) - 1950 m - Akamine - 760 m - Oroku - 970 m - Ounoyama Koen - 840 m - Tsubogawa - 810 m - Asahibashi - 580 m - Prefectural Office (Kencho-mae) - 720 m - Miebashi - 980 m - Makishi - 590 m - Asato - 750 m - Omoromachi - 1010 m - Furujima - 920 m - Naha City Hospital (Shiritsubyoin-mae) - 960 m - Gibo - 1000 m - Shuri

10 Aug 2003 - Naha Airport - Shuri (12.8 km)

01 Oct 2019: Shuri - Tedako-Uranishi (4.1 km)

Naha Monorail - "Yui-Rail" incl. map

Naha Monorail at Wikipedia

Monorail Society

BLOG: Read your webmaster's impressions of Naha's Monorail system (April 2016)

 Book

Andrew Phipps & Robert Schwandl:

NEW: METROS & TRAMS in JAPAN Vol. 2: Nord- und Zentraljapan | North & Central Japan

Metros in Sapporo, Sendai and Nagoya as well as trams in Hakodate, Toyama, Fukui, Takaoka, Toyohashi, Kochi, Matsuyama plus various other urban rail systems in North & Central Japan

144 pages; Network maps; ca. 300 colour photos
Text deutsch & English
ISBN 978 3 936573 52 7
03/2017

The second volume of our trilogy about urban rail systems in Japan covers all the systems in North and Central Japan, from the metros in Sapporo, Sendai and Nagoya to the numerous tram networks and various private suburban railways. This volume also includes all the cities with urban rail systems on the islands of Shikoku and Okinawa. As usual, the book is illustrated with a large number of recent colour photos and detailed network maps.