The Hokuriku Shinkansen

  • Published on : 26/06/2016
  • by : Japan Experience

Kanazawa bullet train

Going across the island of Honshu, the Hokuriksu Shinkansen traverses between the metropolitan capital of Tokyo and the prefectures on the Japan Sea Coast. 

 It's the birth certificate of this line, to keep only the name of Hokuriku Shinkansen. The next step was the opening of a new extension to Tsuruga in March 2024. A total of 500km from Tokyo through the Japanese Alps and along the coast of the Sea of Japan.
All that remains is to link Kyoto and Osaka, but this is not planned for several years, after 2040 it seems.

All Shinkansens running on the Hokuriku line are E7 series trains, specially commissioned for the 2015 inauguration.

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