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The Kagayaki is the fastest service operating on the Hokuriku Shinkansen line, with a total of ten daily return workings per direction (nine to Tsuruga, one to Kanazawa). ). Most services stop at only Omiya, Nagano, Toyama, Kanazawa and Fukui en route, with some services also stopping at Ueno, Komatsu, Kagaonsen, Awaraonsen and Echizen-Takefu
The Hokuriku Shinkansen (Japanese: 北陸新幹線) is a high-speed Shinkansen railway line connecting Tokyo with Tsuruga in the Hokuriku region of Japan. It is jointly operated by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West).
The East Japan Railway Company [10] is a major passenger railway company in Japan and the largest of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR-EAST [11] or JR East in English, and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本, Jeiāru Higashi-Nihon) in Japanese.
W7 series set W3 in August 2020. The E7 series (E7系, E-nana-kei) and W7 series (W7系, Daburu-nana-kei) Shinkansen are Japanese high-speed electric multiple unit train types operated on the Hokuriku and Jōetsu Shinkansen lines, and jointly developed by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and West Japan Railway Company (JR West) respectively.
JR Central service region. The Central Japan Railway Company [6] is the main railway company operating in the Chūbu region of central Japan.It is officially abbreviated in English as JR Central and occasionally as JR Tokai (Japanese: JR東海). [7]
The West Express Ginga is a limited express train service that requires reservations ahead of time. Unlike the original Ginga, it is not strictly a sleeper train, and has both nighttime and daytime routes. It currently runs three different service routes, each at different times of the year:
Nozomi (のぞみ, "Wish" or "Hope") is the fastest train service running on the Tokaido and San'yō Shinkansen lines in Japan. The service stops at only the largest stations, and services using N700 series equipment reach speeds of 300 km/h (186 mph) along the stretch between Shin-Ōsaka and Hakata.
Japan Railway Construction Public Corporation (日本鉄道建設公団, Nihon Tetsudō Kensetsu Kōdan) (JRCC) was a public corporation responsible for the construction of railway lines in Japan.