High-speed route
Joetsu Shinkansen
Tokyo → Niigata · Japan
- Distance
- 300 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 29 min
- Top speed
- 275 km/h
- Operator
- JR East
- Train
- E7 “Toki”
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1982
Dives under the Tanigawa range into Kawabata’s snow country — Tokyo to metres-deep Echigo-Yuzawa powder and Niigata’s sake coast in under ninety minutes.
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