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These lines except Chūō Shinkansen, called Seibi Shinkansen or planned Shinkansen, are the Shinkansen projects designated in the Basic Plan of the Shinkansen Railway decided by the government. Hokkaido Shinkansen from Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto to Sapporo is under construction and scheduled to open by 2038.
Ōsaka – Yonago (via San'in Main Line) 1968 – Oct 2004 Ginga: JR-West Tokyo – Ōsaka 1950 – Mar 2008 Hakkōda: JR East Ueno – Aomori(via Tohoku Main Line) 1961 – Dec 1993 (daily operation) / Aug 1998 (temporary service) Hamanasu: JR Hokkaido: Aomori – Sapporo 1955 – Mar 2016 Kitaguni: JR-West Ōsaka – Niigata: 1968 – Jan ...
Keikyū Main Line Kominato Railway Line JR Kyushu Shinkansen. Kabe Line (West Japan Railway Company) Kada Line (Nankai Electric Railway) Kagoshima Main Line (Kyushu Railway Company) Kaigan Line (Kobe Municipal Transportation Bureau) Kaikyō Line (Hokkaido Railway Company) Kaizuka Line (Nishi-Nippon Railroad) Kakamigahara Line (Nagoya Railroad)
Japan’s sleek Shinkansen bullet trains zoomed onto the railway scene in the 1960s, shrinking travel times and inspiring a global revolution in high-speed rail travel that continues to this day.
Sankō Line (West Japan Railway Company) (Closed on march 2018) Sano Line (Tobu Railway) San'yō Main Line (West Japan Railway Company, Kyushu Railway Company) San'yō Shinkansen (West Japan Railway Company) Sasaguri Line (Kyushu Railway Company) Sasebo Line (Kyushu Railway Company) Sassho Line (Hokkaido Railway Company) Sawara Line (Common name.
1. ^ Although Kato Line was closed, the line was technically split into several lines, where the "Yashiro Line" section became an actual line after the closure of the Kato Line and the "Kishima Line" section, and the remaining section was incorporated into Nagano Line. As of 2024, only the section between Suzaka and Yudanaka remains in operation.
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 Hakutaka (はくたか, "white hawk") is a high-speed shinkansen train service jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West) between Tokyo and Kanazawa on the Hokuriku Shinkansen line in Japan. The shinkansen service was introduced on 14 March 2015, but the name was first used for a ...