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Nagano Shinkansen
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Prefectures on this page: Gunma   Nagano  
Lines on this page
Railway Line Linetype
JR East Hokuriku ShinkansenShinkansen [Nickname]
JR East Nagano ShinkansenShinkansen
JR East 東日本旅客鉄道  Higashi Nihon Ryokaku Tetsudō     East Japan Railway

Hokuriku Shinkansen 北陸新幹線 Shinkansen           
Hokuriku Shinkansen consists of the current Nagano Shinkansen and the future extension to Ōsaka. Current status of the future sections:
· Nagano - Kanazawa: Construktion complete in 2014?
· Kanazawa - Fukui - Tsuruga: Planned (some construction started in Fukui)
· Tsuruga - Ōsaka: Route not decided


Nagano Shinkansen 長野新幹線 Shinkansen      1435 mm     
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Nagano Matsumoto Takasaki
Traction20 kV 50 Hz ACTakasaki - 5 km west of Karuizawa
20 kV 60 Hz AC5 km west of Karuizawa - Nagano
Opened1997TracksDouble track
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Map Map Takasaki Jōshin: Jōshin, JR East: Jōetsu, JR East: Jōetsu Shinkansen,
JR East: Shinetsu Hon (Takasaki - Yokokawa), JR East: Hachikō, JR East: Takasaki,
0.0 Takasaki-shi Gunma
Map Map Annaka-Haruna
18.5 Annaka-shi
Map Map Karuizawa Shinano: Shinano Tetsudō 41.8 Karuizawa-machi Nagano
Map Map Sakudaira JR East: Koumi 59.4 Saku-shi
Map Map Ueda Shinano: Shinano Tetsudō, Ueda: Bessho 84.2 Ueda-shi
Map Map Nagano JR East: Iiyama, JR East: Shinetsu Hon (Shinonoi - Niigata), Nagaden: Nagano (Hon),
117.4 Nagano-shi

Traffic pattern
The traffic pattern was accurate at: Aug 9, 2010
TypeNameOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day		Fastest
train		Average
speed
ShinkansenAsama
あさま 		Tōkyō - Takasaki - Nagano 271h25160 km/h
Tōkyō - Takasaki - Karuizawa11h12125 km/h
Karuizawa - Nagano134 min133 km/h

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This page is updated Aug 20, 2010