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The Test Center, the heart of the Yamanashi Maglev Test Line, is a 5-story structure equipped with facilities issuing the instructions necessary for test execution and with a variety of devices and instruments. |
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(test platform side) (right) This is a glimpse of the Test Center from the side of the test platform, which is 80 m long and has a boarding facility. |
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The substation is where the voltage as received from the utility company is transformed with the inverters controlling the magnitude and frequency of the current that runs in the ground coils and thereby adjusting the train speed. |
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This is the Ogatayama Bridge, about 140 m long, crossing the Fuji-Yoshida line of the Chuo Expressway, just beside the Test Center. |
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This depot serves as an inspection and repair base for routine maintenance of the Maglev vehicles and at the same time as a cryogenic base responsible for keeping the Superconducting Magnets ready for service. It is 3 stories high with two inspection lines housed inside. |
To the Yamanashi Maglev Test Line