Classic route
Spacia X
Tokyo (Asakusa) → Nikko · Japan
Spacia X in pictures
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- Distance
- 136 km
- Fastest time
- 1 h 50 min
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- Tobu Railway
- Train
- Tobu N100 “Spacia X”
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2023
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Tobu’s champagne-white flagship to Nikko’s shrine forest: a cockpit lounge, craft beer on draught, and Tokyo Skytree receding from the rear window.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 5392090 (41 km), relation 11801774 (95 km) — 136 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- Checked against the running timetable via Transitous: our line sits under 100 m from the shape of TS
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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