Scenic route
Saphir Odoriko
Tokyo → Izukyu-Shimoda · Japan
Saphir Odoriko in pictures
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- Distance
- 168 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 30 min
- Average speed
- 67 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- JR East · Izukyu
- Train
- E261 all-Green-Car EMU
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2020
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
All-Green-Car luxury down the Izu coast: nose windows, a fresh noodle bar, and Sagami Bay filling the glass roof beyond Atami’s tunnels.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 12014185 (104 km), relation 12024921 (46 km) — 150 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 6 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of JT
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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