Night train route
Sunrise Express
Tokyo → Izumo · Japan
Sunrise Express in pictures
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- Distance
- 953 km
- Fastest time
- 12 h 8 min
- Average speed
- 79 km/h
- Top speed
- 130 km/h
- Operator
- JR West · JR East
- Train
- 285 series
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1998
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Japan’s last regular sleeper; the Izumo half splits at Okayama and takes the Hakubi Line gorges to the sacred San’in coast by breakfast.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from 2 OpenStreetMap relations, their own nodes end to end: relation 9807035 (341 km), relation 1839656 (136 km) — 477 km of the route between them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.9% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 18 m); the longest stretch away from it is 5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR West · JR East — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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