Classic route
Limited Express Sōya
Sapporo → Wakkanai · Japan
- Distance
- 396 km
- Fastest time
- ≈ 5 h 10 min
- Average speed
- 77 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- JR Hokkaido
- Train
- KiHa 261 DMU
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1922
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
One return working a day to Japan’s northernmost station: five hours up the Sōya Main Line to Wakkanai, in sight of Sakhalin on a clear day.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 1821359 (135 km), relation 1827909 (252 km) — 387 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 7 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR Hokkaido — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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