Ozora

Crosses Hokkaido’s wild interior, the Hidaka range and the Sekisho tunnels, to the crane marshes of Kushiro on the far Pacific coast.

Stations

1. 0 kmSapporo +4
2. 6 kmShiroishi
3. 11 kmShin-Sapporo
4. 44 kmMinami-Chitose +1
5. 142 kmTomamu
6. 176 kmShintoku
7. 219 kmObihiro
8. 243 kmIkeda
9. 270 kmUrahoro
10. 319 kmShiranuka
11. 347 kmKushiro

The stations OpenStreetMap lists for this service, in order, with the distance along the line as drawn here. A train may skip some of them. A +N after a station: N other routes on this map stop or end there, and the map draws it as a station where lines meet.

How this line was checked

• Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 1828339 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within 27 m of them
• Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 8 m from it
• The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR Hokkaido — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
• Wikipedia has an article for this line
• See for yourself: open this line on the map with OpenStreetMap's own railway drawn underneath it

Questions and answers

How long is the Ozora?

The Ozora runs 349 km from Sapporo to Kushiro.

How long does the Ozora take?

The fastest scheduled journey is 4 h 5 min for the 349 km. That is an average of 85 km/h end to end. The line's top service speed is 120 km/h.

Who runs the Ozora?

JR Hokkaido, with KiHa 283, 261.

How old is the Ozora?

The line has been in service since 1997. That is the year the atlas dates it from: for a modern brand running over an older railway, it is the railway's date, not the brand's.

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