Scenic route
Limited Express Nanpu
Okayama → Kochi · Japan
- Distance
- 179 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 2 h 30 min
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- JR Shikoku
- Train
- JR 2700 tilting DMU
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1935
Page last updated 2026-07-20 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Across the Great Seto Bridge, then up the Yoshino river’s Oboke and Koboke gorges, tilting over the island spine to Kochi.
Limited Express Nanpu in pictures
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