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Hakone / Super Hakone / Metro Hakone: refers to Hakone: Odakyu Shinjuku, Kita-Senju – Hakone-Yumoto: 1950– Hakuchō / Super Hakuchō: Swan: JR East / JR Hokkaido: Shin-Aomori, Aomori – Hakodate: 2002–2016 Hamakaze: Sea breeze/beach wind: JR-West Ōsaka – Kasumi, Hamasaka, Tottori: 1972– Haruka: Faraway: JR-West: Kyoto/Shin-Ōsaka ...
Since 2014, Shinkansen trains run regularly at speeds up to 320 km/h (200 mph) on the Tōhoku Shinkansen; only the Shanghai maglev train, China Railway High-speed networks, and the Indonesian Jakarta-Bandung High-speed railway have commercial services that operate faster.
Odakyu platforms Tokaido Shinkansen platforms. Odawara Station (小田原駅, Odawara-eki) is a junction and interchange railway station located in the city of Odawara, Kanagawa, Japan, operated jointly by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Central Japan Railway Company (JR Tōkai).
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.
The capacity constraints on the Tokaido Main Line had been clear prior to World War II, and work started on a new 1,435 mm (4 ft 8 + 1 ⁄ 2 in) standard gauge "bullet train" line in 1940. Intercity passenger traffic between Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka largely transferred to the Tōkaidō Shinkansen after it was completed in 1964.
Almost nothing stops Japan’s famous high-speed bullet trains from running exactly on time – but a tiny snake slithering through a passenger carriage will do the trick, albeit for just 17 minutes.
Home Way trains outbound from Shinjuku to Hakone-Yumoto, Katase-Enoshima after 6 p.m. Metro Home Way trains outbound from Kita-senju (on Tokyo Metro Chiyoda Line) to Hon-Atsugi; These are classified as tokkyū (limited express) services, requiring limited express tickets and seat reservations. Bento meals are available on the train.
Hakone Mountain-Climbing Railroad Line) is a mountain railway in Japan operated by Odakyu Hakone, an Odakyu Group company that also owns the Hakone Tozan Cable Car. The section of the line from Odawara Station to Hakone-Yumoto Station began operating in 1919, with the current terminus of Gōra being reached in 1930.