High-speed route
Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen
Takeo-Onsen → Nagasaki · Japan
Nishi-Kyushu Shinkansen in pictures
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- Distance
- 66 km
- Fastest time
- 23 min
- Average speed
- 172 km/h
- Top speed
- 260 km/h
- Operator
- JR Kyushu
- Train
- N700S-8000 “Kamome”
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2022
- Runs
- 1–2× hourly (≈ 22× daily each way)
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Japan’s newest and shortest bullet line. The white-and-red “Kamome” skims Omura Bay to Nagasaki while politics still debates the missing link to Hakata.
For now it is a bullet railway in miniature, reached by a same-platform hop from the Relay Kamome at Takeo-Onsen; even so, the 23-minute run is pure JR Kyushu theatre, with Eiji Mitooka’s wood-and-fabric interiors brightening even ordinary class. New stations serve Ureshino, a 1,300-year-old tea and hot-spring town that had never seen a railway, and bayside Ōmura on the way down to Nagasaki’s rebuilt terminus. The name revives the Kamome (“seagull”) expresses that linked Nagasaki to the network for generations.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 17313193 — 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 6 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR Kyushu — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Takeo-Onsen cross-platform interchange
- Ureshino tea terraces
- Ōmura Bay views
- Isahaya plain
- Nagasaki’s new Kamome terminus
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