Ongakukan and the East Japan Railway Company announced the next DLC coming to JR East Train Simulator, titled Tobu Railway.
This will be the first private railway featured in the simulator, and it’ll feature two routes.
The first route will be the popular Tobu Skytree Line, a 29.7km route between the Kita-kasukabe station and the Kita-senju station on the Tobu Isesaki Line.
As its name indicates, it’s one of the main ways to reach the iconic (and massively overpriced to climb) Tokyo Skytree tower, albeit interestingly, the route actually doesn’t include the Tokyo Skytree station or the terminal at Asakusa Station.
That being said, you’ll be able to see Skytree in the distance.
The second route is a 17.8 km stretch of the Tobu Tojo Line between Shiki Station and Ikebukuro Station.
The simulation focuses on the 2022 operating timetable, and both lines use the Series 10030 trains with six and ten cars.
You can see a bunch of screenshots below, and you can already wishlist the DLC on Steam. For the moment, we only have the price in yen (3,980 yen), which should put the dollar price at $26.99.
The release date is August 26, and you can find a few screenshots below.
If you’re unfamiliar with JR East Train Simulator, it’s available for PC via Steam and comes with a massive range of DLC simulating plenty of different trains and lines around Tokyo and Eastern Japan.
While it’s certainly a niche sim compared to more global franchises like Train Sim World 5, it enjoys “mostly positive” reviews, and it has a dedicated fanbase. Incidentally, it was developed by Ongakukan, one of the pioneers of the train simulation genre with the Train Simulator franchise that debuted all the way back in 1995.
Just a few weeks ago, JR East (the actual railway operator in the real world), which also publishes the game officially, announced an official and blindingly expensive controller unit for the most professional (or nerdy) of the simulator’s fans. Another DLC focusing on the Senzan Line has recently been released.