Scenic route
Marumaru no Hanashi
Shin-Shimonoseki → Higashi-Hagi · Japan
- Distance
- 98 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 3 h
- Average speed
- 33 km/h
- Top speed
- 85 km/h
- Operator
- JR West
- Train
- KiHa 47 sightseeing DMU
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1925
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
A KiHa 47 dawdling along the San’in coast between Shimonoseki and Hagi, timed so the Sea of Japan fills the windows — back running after 2025’s storm damage.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1839695 — 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: JR West — 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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