Classic route
Aoniyoshi
Osaka → Kyoto · Japan
Aoniyoshi in pictures
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- Distance
- 66 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 50 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- Kintetsu Railway
- Train
- Kintetsu 19200 series sightseeing limited express
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2022
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A 2022 salon train styled on Nara’s Tenpyō court art, linking Osaka, the old capital Nara and Kyoto with a library bar and a sweets counter.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 20104824 — 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: Kintetsu Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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