Classic route
Marine Liner
Okayama → Takamatsu · Japan
Marine Liner in pictures
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- Distance
- 72 km
- Fastest time
- 55 min
- Average speed
- 79 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- JR West & JR Shikoku
- Train
- JR 5000 series + 223-5000 series EMU with double-deck panorama car
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1988
- Runs
- every 30 min through the day
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Every half hour it rides the lower deck of the 13.1 km Great Seto Bridge: the Seto Inland Sea’s only rail crossing, strung across five islands since 1988.
Half commuter rapid, half engineering pilgrimage, the Marine Liner shuttles between Honshu and Shikoku on the lower deck of the Great Seto Bridge, 13.1 km of spans stitched across five islands of the Inland Sea. Fishing fleets and shipping lanes slide past beneath the girders before the train makes landfall at Sakaide. The double-deck panorama car at the Takamatsu end gives the best forward view.
How this line was checked
- The 28 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 11867622 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 87.5% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 9 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR West — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Kojima denim-town approach
- Shimotsui-Seto suspension span
- Island-hopping over Yoshima
- Sakaide’s industrial salt coast
- Takamatsu harbour arrival
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