Scenic route
Shimakaze
Osaka → Kashikojima · Japan
- Distance
- 177 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 76 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- Kintetsu Railway
- Train
- Kintetsu 50000 series
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2013
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Kintetsu’s luxury Shimakaze (double-decker observation cars, leather saloons and a café) glides to the pearl bays and shrines of Ise-Shima.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 19960360 — 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 3 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
Read more on Wikipedia (in JA) ↗
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