The Hyogo beamline has been constructed as the first contract beamline at S
Pring-8. It has three experimental hutches and their corresponding three mo
nochromators. Two upstream transparent monochromators enable us to perform
three experiments for different purposes simultaneously. Employing a figure
-8 undulator, horizontally or vertically polarized X-rays can be obtained i
n a wide energy range. Rocking curves of the monochromators were almost ide
ntical to theoretical ones. (C) 2001 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reser
ved.