🇯🇵 Operator
Train routes operated by JR Shikoku
4 routes · classic 1 · scenic 1 · luxury 2
JR Shikoku runs 4 of the routes in the World Train Map atlas, 520 km of railway across 1 country. The longest is the Limited Express Shiokaze at 214 km; the fastest is the Limited Express Shiokaze, running up to 130 km/h; the oldest line it runs over here opened in 1927.
The company itself dates to 1987, filed on Wikidata as a rail company (Japan). What this page says about the company comes from JR Shikoku'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. Official site ↗ · Wikipedia ↗ · Wikidata Q496531 ↗
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- 4
- Total length
- 520 km
- Countries
- Japan
- Oldest line here
- 1927
- Company founded
- 1987
- Type
- rail company (Japan)
- Fastest
- Limited Express Shiokaze · 130 km/h
- Longest
- Limited Express Shiokaze · 214 km
Classic (1)
- Limited Express Shiokaze
Along the Seto Inland Sea’s island-studded shore to Dōgo Onsen, Japan’s oldest hot spring — Shikoku’s busiest express, tilting the whole way.
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Scenic (1)
- Limited Express Nanpu
Across the Great Seto Bridge, then up the Yoshino river’s Oboke and Koboke gorges, tilting over the island spine to Kochi.
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Luxury (2)
- Tosa Toki no Yoake no Monogatari
Ryoma-themed “dawn of a new era” train pairs Tosa seafood with Pacific panoramas above Susaki and Tosa-Kure bays, locals waving it through tea fields to Kubokawa.
Wikipedia ↗ - Iyonada Monogatari
A retro maroon-and-gold diner idling along the Iyonada shore — brunch above the waves and a pause at Shimonada, Japan’s most photographed seaside platform.
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Photos via Wikimedia Commons — each route page credits the author & licence
How many train routes does JR Shikoku run?
4 of the routes in this atlas are JR Shikoku services, covering 520 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 Shikoku train?
The Limited Express Shiokaze, Okayama to Matsuyama, at up to 130 km/h. Its fastest scheduled run takes ≈ 2 h 35 min over 214 km.
Does JR Shikoku run night trains?
Not in this atlas. All 4 JR Shikoku routes listed here are daytime services.
When was JR Shikoku 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 1927 — the line and the company are rarely the same age, and this page dates both.
Countries JR Shikoku runs in
- 🇯🇵 Train routes in Japan 78 routes
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