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Additionally it is responsible for the Chūō Shinkansen — a maglev service between Tokyo and Osaka, which is due to start operation between Tokyo and Nagoya in 2034. [ 9 ] JR Central is Japan's most profitable and highest throughput high-speed-rail operator, carrying 138 million high-speed-rail passengers in 2009, considerably more than the ...
Shirasagi Overview Service type Limited express First service 25 December 1964 Current operator(s) JR West Former operator(s) JNR Route Termini Nagoya Stops Tsuruga Service frequency 14 return services daily Line(s) used Tokaido Main Line Hokuriku Main Line On-board services Class(es) Green, standard Technical Rolling stock 681 series EMUs 683 series EMUs Track gauge 1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in ...
A ticket is inspected at a staffed or automated gate in the station where a travel starts and is collected at the station where the travel ends. A ticket required for a travel by railway is called a fare ticket (乗車券, jōshaken), the price of which is fare (運賃, unchin). The fare ticket is valid regardless of number of transfers.
KiHa 85 series (Nagoya / Osaka – Gifu, through service on the Takayama Main Line, 1989 – 9 July 2023) 113-1000 series (April 1972 - March 2006) 185 series (Tokyo – Atami, Misima through services onto the Itō Line, March 1981 - March 2021) 211 series (Tokyo – Atami – Numazu, through services onto the Itō Line, 1985 - April 2012)
Typical Kodama runs include Tokyo - Nagoya / Shin-Osaka, Tokyo - Mishima / Shizuoka / Hamamatsu, Mishima / Shizuoka / Nagoya - Shin-Osaka, and Shin-Osaka / Okayama / Hiroshima - Hakata as well as some shorter late-night runs. The trainsets used for Kodama service are the same 700 series, and N700 series trains used for the Hikari and Nozomi ...
The Shinkansen bullet trains running between Tokyo and Nagoya were halted for the entire day, according to Central Japan Railway, a common response to typhoons here. Bullet trains serving ...
The predecessor for the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines was originally conceived at the end of the 1930s as a 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge dangan ressha (bullet train) between Tokyo and Shimonoseki, which would have taken nine hours to cover the nearly 1,000-kilometer (620 mi) distance between the two cities.
Shinkansen trains are known to be very safe, with no accident-related deaths or injuries from passengers in their 50-plus year history. [9] Shinkansen trains are also known to be very punctual, following suit with all other Japanese transport; in 2003, the average delay per train on the Tokaido Shinkansen was a mere 6 seconds. [10]