Luxury route
Rokumon
Karuizawa → Nagano · Japan
Rokumon in pictures
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- Distance
- 74 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 8 min
- Average speed
- 35 km/h
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- Shinano Railway
- Train
- 115 series
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2014
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Rokumon wears the Sanada clan’s six-coin crest in deep crimson, serving kaiseki under Mt Asama on the old Shinetsu main line from Karuizawa down to Zenko-ji’s Nagano.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 92.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 10 m); the longest stretch away from it is 4.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Shinano 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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