Ongakukan announced the next line DLC for JR East Train Simulator, and it’s the Tōkaidō Line (Upbound).
According to the official post, it’ll be released for PC via Steam on July 29, 2026.
It’s actually the reverse direction of a DLC that’s already available, and it’ll allow you to travel for a whopping 104.6 km from Atami Station in Shizuoka Prefecture to Tokyo Station.
It also comes with a train, the iconic E233-3000 Series, and it also works with the E231-1000 Series and 185 Series if you have the related DLC available.
This is bound to be a truly spectacular line among those run by JR East, as it travels through the mountains of Shizuoka prefecture and the scenic Kanagawa prefecture, all the way to the highly-urbanized vistas of central Tokyo.
It has pretty much everything you may want, from mountains to coastal rail, including hot spring towns and even a castle town.
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 6, it enjoys “mostly positive” reviews (with “very positive” recent ones), 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 months 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.
