🇯🇵 Operator
Train routes operated by JR Hokkaido
5 routes · classic 5
JR Hokkaido runs 5 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 1,576 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Limited Express Sōya at 396 km; the fastest is the Limited Express Sōya, running up to 120 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1898.
The company itself dates to 1987, filed on Wikidata as a rail company (Japan). What this page says about the company comes from JR Hokkaido's own Wikidata item, checked against the countries its routes here actually cross before any of it is used; everything about the railway is counted from this atlas. Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q498930 ↗
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- 5
- Total length
- 1,576 km
- Countries
- Japan
- Longest
- Limited Express Sōya · 396 km
- Oldest line here
- 1898
- Company founded
- 1987
- Type
- rail company (Japan)
- Fastest
- Limited Express Sōya · 120 km/h
Classic (5)
- Limited Express Sōya
One return working a day to Japan’s northernmost station: five hours up the Sōya Main Line to Wakkanai, in sight of Sakhalin on a clear day.
Wikipedia ↗ - Limited Express Okhotsk
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.
Wikipedia ↗ - Ozora
Crosses Hokkaido’s wild interior, the Hidaka range and the Sekisho tunnels, to the crane marshes of Kushiro on the far Pacific coast.
Wikipedia ↗ - Hokuto
Diesel tilting express curving 319 km around Uchiura Bay past the volcanoes Usu and Komagatake, linking Sapporo with old Hakodate.
Wikipedia ↗ - Limited Express Kamui
Hokkaido’s busiest shuttle: near-hourly across the Ishikari plain to Asahikawa, the doorway to Biei’s hills and Daisetsuzan’s peaks.
Wikipedia ↗
Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does JR Hokkaido run?
5 of the routes in this atlas are JR Hokkaido services, covering 1,576 km across 1 country (Japan). That is what this atlas draws, not the operator's whole network — a national railway runs thousands of local services no map of notable journeys would list.
What is the fastest JR Hokkaido train?
The Limited Express Sōya, Sapporo to Wakkanai, at up to 120 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 5 h 10 min over 396 km.
Does JR Hokkaido run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 5 JR Hokkaido routes listed here are daytime services.
When was JR Hokkaido founded?
Wikidata records the company's inception as 1987, and files it as a rail company (Japan). The oldest railway it runs over in this atlas opened in 1898 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries JR Hokkaido runs in
- 🇯🇵 Train routes in Japan 82 routes
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- JR East 16 routes
- JR West 14 routes
- JR Kyushu 9 routes
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- JR Central 3 routes
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