High-speed route
Tokaido Shinkansen
Tokyo → Osaka · Japan
- Distance
- 515 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 21 min
- Top speed
- 285 km/h
- Operator
- JR Central
- Train
- N700S
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1964
- Riders per year
- ≈ 150M
The original bullet train, opened for the 1964 Olympics — the world’s busiest high-speed line, with departures every few minutes past Mount Fuji.
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