Classic route
Limited Express Okhotsk
Sapporo → Abashiri · Japan
- Distance
- 375 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h 25 min
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- JR Hokkaido
- Train
- JR 283 DMU
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1932
Page last updated 2026-07-20 · figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
One of Japan’s last great remote expresses: over the Kitami Pass through forest-empty interior to the drift-ice coast of the Sea of Okhotsk.
Limited Express Okhotsk in pictures
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