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The average delay on the Tokaido Shinkansen in fiscal 2018 was 0.7 minutes. [21] When trains are delayed for five minutes, the conductor makes an announcement apologizing for the delay and the railway company may provide a "delay certificate" (遅延証明書). Japanese passengers rely heavily on rail transit and take it for granted that trains ...
Shinjuku Station is the busiest train station in the world by passenger throughput. [5] Tokyo's railways tend to shut down at around midnight, with stations themselves closed up around 1 a.m. Trains had historically been extremely crowded at peak travel times , with people being pushed into trains by so-called oshiya ("pushers"), which was ...
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.
The Yamanote Line (Japanese: 山手線, romanized: Yamanote-sen) is a loop service in Tokyo, Japan, operated by the East Japan Railway Company (JR East). It is one of Tokyo's busiest and most important lines, connecting most of Tokyo's major stations and urban centres, including Marunouchi, the Yūrakuchō/Ginza area, Shinagawa, Shibuya, Shinjuku, Ikebukuro, and Ueno, with all but two of its ...
Kyoto, Shin-Ōsaka Wakayama, Kainan, Kii-Tanabe, Shirahama, Shingū: Stops: 22: Distance travelled: 315.5 km (196.0 mi) (Kyoto – Shingū) Average journey time: 4 hours 15 minutes approx (Shin-Ōsaka – Shingū) Service frequency: 16 return workings daily: Line(s) used: Tokaido Main Line (JR Kyoto Line), Osaka Loop Line, Hanwa Line, Kisei ...
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.
Tōzai Line trains are 10-car formations of 20-meter (65 ft 7 in)-long cars, with four doors per side and longitudinal seating. The maximum operating speed is 100 km/h (62 mph). Newer trains feature wide doors to allow for faster boarding times. Tokyo Metro 05/05N series (since 1988) 07 series (since 2006) (transferred from Yūrakuchō Line)
The subsidy application was rejected on the basis that the line competed with the Japanese Government Railways (JGR) Chūō Main Line, and so the Gyokunan Electric Railway merged with the Keiō Electric Railway Co., the line was regauged to 1,372 mm, and operation of trains from Shinjuku to Higashi-Hachiōji commenced in 1928.