Classic route
Haruka
Kyoto → Kansai Airport · Japan
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Kansai Airport’s purple-and-white express, covering 99 km from Kyoto’s temples out across the bay to the man-made island runway.
Stations
- 0 kmKyoto +3
- 39 kmShin-Osaka +5
- 43 kmOsaka +4
- 54 kmTennoji +1
- 100 kmKansai Airport
The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 6665863 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 5 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR West — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
- See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it
Questions and answers
How long is the Haruka?
The Haruka runs 99 km from Kyoto to Kansai Airport.
How long does the Haruka take?
The fastest scheduled journey is 1 h 20 min for the 99 km. That is an average of 74 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 130 km/h.
Who runs the Haruka?
JR West, with 281, 271 series.
How old is the Haruka?
The line has been in service since 1994. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.
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