Luxury route
Seven Stars in Kyushu
Fukuoka → Fukuoka · Japan
Seven Stars in Kyushu in pictures
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- Distance
- 1,000 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 4 days
- Top speed
- 100 km/h
- Operator
- JR Kyushu
- Train
- DF200-hauled 77 series suites
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2013
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Japan’s first luxury cruise train: ten suites and a piano bar on a slow lap of Kyushu’s volcano country; berths routinely go to a lottery.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 97% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 7 m); the longest stretch away from it is 3 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR Kyushu — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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