Classic route
Jōban Line
Tokyo → Sendai · Japan
- Distance
- 364 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 h 40 min
- Average speed
- 78 km/h
- Train
- Limited Express Hitachi
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1905
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Tokyo to Sendai up the Pacific coast, inland of the Shinkansen: complete on 1 April 1905, and reopened right through Fukushima in March 2020 after nine years shut.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 8506269 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR East — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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