High-speed route
Yamagata Shinkansen
Tokyo → Shinjo · Japan
- Distance
- 421 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 10 min
- Top speed
- 300 km/h
- Operator
- JR East
- Train
- E8 “Tsubasa”
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1992
Japan’s first mini-shinkansen — beyond Fukushima the “Tsubasa” threads re-gauged valley rails beneath Zao’s slopes into cherry and soba country.
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