Scenic route
Limited Express Kuroshio
Osaka → Shingu · Japan
- Distance
- 275 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h 25 min
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- JR West
- Train
- JR 283 Ocean Arrow
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1959
Page last updated 2026-07-20 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Around the Kii Peninsula with the Pacific at the window: Shirahama’s sands, Honshu’s southernmost cape and the Kumano pilgrim coast.
Limited Express Kuroshio in pictures
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