Classic route
Laview
Tokyo (Ikebukuro) → Chichibu · Japan
Laview in pictures
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- Distance
- 77 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 20 min
- Average speed
- 58 km/h
- Top speed
- 105 km/h
- Operator
- Seibu Railway
- Train
- Seibu 001 series
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2019
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Seibu’s radical Laview, with a huge curved windscreen and yellow living-room windows, climbs from Ikebukuro into the Chichibu mountains.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 11763511 (43 km), relation 11703136 (19 km) — 62 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 3 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: Seibu Railway — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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