Classic route
ITX-Maum · Donghae Line
Busan → Gangneung · South Korea
- Distance
- 363 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h 55 min
- Average speed
- 93 km/h
- Top speed
- 150 km/h
- Operator
- Korail
- Train
- ITX-Maum
- Countries
- South Korea
- In service since
- 2025
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Korea’s newest line: the last east-coast gap closed on New Year’s Day 2025, and now one train runs the whole East Sea shore, Busan to Gangneung.
How this line was checked
- The 64 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 6708903 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.3% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 27 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Korail — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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