Classic route
Limited Express Kamui
Sapporo → Asahikawa · Japan
- Distance
- 137 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 1 h 25 min
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- JR Hokkaido
- Train
- JR 789 EMU
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1898
Page last updated 2026-07-20 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Hokkaido’s busiest shuttle: near-hourly across the Ishikari plain to Asahikawa, the doorway to Biei’s hills and Daisetsuzan’s peaks.
Limited Express Kamui in pictures
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