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Sanyō Shinkansen


JR West 西日本旅客鉄道  Nishi Nippon Ryokaku Tetsudō     West Japan Railway Company

Sanyō Shinkansen 山陽新幹線 Shinkansen      1435 mm     25 kV 60 Hz AC
You can find Kitayama Rail Maps for this line on these pages: Yamaguchi
Kurashiki Iwakuni - Hiroshima Fukuyama Okayama - Himeji
Mine Tokuyama
Greater Hiroshima City Bizen Munakata Kitakyūshū Fukuoka
Kakogawa Kōbe Akashi
Hiroshima City Okayama city Himeji Fukuoka City
Central Hiroshima City
Tarumi
Sumiyoshi Myōdani Kōbe - Sannomiya Kōyōen Itami Amagasaki Shin-Ōsaka
OpenedMarch 15, 1972Shin-Ōsaka - OkayamaTracksDouble track
March 10, 1975Okayama - Hakata
MapionGoogle Major stations Connecting lines KmCityPrefecture
Shin-Ōsaka JR Central: Tōkaidō Shinkansen, JR West: Tōkaidō Hon (Maibara - Kōbe), JR West: Tōkaidō Hon (Umeda Kamotsu Umeda Freight),
Ōsaka-shi: Midōsuji
515.4 Ōsaka-shi Ōsaka
Shin-Kōbe Hokushin Kyūkō: Hokushin, JR West: Sanyō Hon [Kōbe], Kōbe Subway: Seishin-Yamate,
548.0 Kōbe-shi Hyōgo
Nishi-Akashi JR West: Sanyō Hon 570.2 Akashi-shi
Himeji Sanyō Dentetsu: Hon [Sanyō-Himeji], JR West: Bantan, JR West: Sanyō Hon,
JR West: Kishin
601.3 Himeji-shi
Aioi JR West: Sanyō Hon, JR West: Akō 621.3 Aioi-shi
Okayama JR West: Sanyō Hon, JR West: Uno, JR West: Kibi,
JR West: Tsuyama, Okaden: Higashiyama (Hon) [Okayama-ekimae]
676.3 Okayama-shi Okayama
Shin-Kurashiki JR West: Sanyō Hon 702.1 Kurashiki-shi
Fukuyama JR West: Sanyō Hon, JR West: Fukuen 733.1 Fukuyama-shi Hiroshima
Shin-Onomichi
750.5 Onomichi-shi
Mihara JR West: Sanyō Hon, JR West: Kure 761.0 Mihara-shi
Higashi-Hiroshima
791.9 Higashihiroshima-shi
Hiroshima Hiroden: Hon [Hiroshima-eki], JR West: Sanyō Hon, JR West: Geibi,
JR West: Kabe
821.2 Hiroshima-shi
Shin-Iwakuni Nishikigawa: Nishikigawa Seiryū [Mishō] 865.4 Iwakuni-shi Yamaguchi
Tokuyama JR West: Sanyō Hon 903.5 Shūnan-shi
Shin-Yamaguchi JR West: Sanyō Hon, JR West: Yamaguchi, JR West: Ube,
944.6 Yamaguchi-shi
Asa JR West: Sanyō Hon, JR West: Mine 968.7 Sanyō-Onoda-shi
Shin-Shimonoseki JR West: Sanyō Hon 992.5 Shimonoseki-shi
Kokura Kitakyūshū Kōsoku: Kokura, JR Kyūshū: Kagoshima Hon (Mojikō - Yatsushiro), JR Kyūshū: Nippō Hon,
1013.2 Kitakyūshū-shi Fukuoka
Hakata Fukuoka-shi: Kūkō (1-gō; Airport), JR Kyūshū: Kagoshima Hon (Mojikō - Yatsushiro), JR Kyūshū: Kyūshū Shinkansen,
JR West: Hakata Minami
1069.1 Fukuoka-shi

Traffic pattern
The traffic pattern was accurate at: Aug 6, 2010
TypeNameOrigin - Major stops - DestinationTrains
per day
Fastest
train
Average
speed
ShinkansenNozomi
のぞみ
Tōkyō - Shin-Ōsaka - Hakata414h55217 km/h
Tōkyō - Shin-Ōsaka - Hiroshima124h02204 km/h
Tōkyō - Shin-Ōsaka - Okayama63h25198 km/h
Tōkyō - Shin-Ōsaka - Himeji13h05195 km/h
Shinagawa - Shin-Ōsaka - Hakata14h50220 km/h
Nagoya - Shin-Ōsaka - Hakata23h20218 km/h
Shin-Ōsaka - Hakata12h29223 km/h
Hikari
ひかり
Tōkyō - Shin-Ōsaka - Okayama134h12161 km/h
Tōkyō - Shin-Ōsaka - Himeji13h51156 km/h
Shin-Yokohama - Shin-Ōsaka - Hiroshima14h01198 km/h
Nagoya - Shin-Ōsaka - Hiroshima22h30192 km/h
Shin-Ōsaka - Hakata192h40208 km/h
Shin-Ōsaka - Hiroshima12h00153 km/h
Kodama
こだま
Shin-Ōsaka - Hakata74h18129 km/h
Shin-Ōsaka - Shin-Yamaguchi13h29123 km/h
Shin-Ōsaka - Hiroshima32h38116 km/h
Shin-Ōsaka - Okayama31h11136 km/h
Himeji - Okayama131 min145 km/h
Okayama - Hakata93h05127 km/h
Okayama - Hiroshima51h04136 km/h
Okayama - Mihara139 min130 km/h
Hiroshima - Hakata61h31163 km/h
Shin-Yamaguchi - Hakata250 min149 km/h
Shin-Shimonoseki- Hakata129 min158 km/h
Kokura - Hakata717 min197 km/h


This page is updated Feb 28, 2011