High-speed route
Hayabusa
Tokyo → Hakodate · Japan
Hayabusa in pictures
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- Distance
- 862 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h 57 min
- Average speed
- 218 km/h
- Top speed
- 320 km/h
- Operator
- JR East · JR Hokkaido
- Train
- E5 / H5 Series
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2016
- Runs
- ≈ 10× daily each way, roughly hourly
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Japan’s fastest trains dive beneath the sea through the 53.9 km Seikan Tunnel to reach Hokkaido.
Fifteen-metre noses on the E5s hush the tunnel booms as the trains cross the Tōhoku heartland through Sendai and Morioka. North of Aomori the rails sink to roughly 240 m below sea level beneath the Tsugaru Strait (a link first demanded after the 1954 Tōya Maru ferry disaster) before daylight returns among Hokkaido’s farms. The run ends at Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, a short shuttle from Hakodate’s waterfront and its famous morning market.
How this line was checked
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 99.2% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 5 m); the longest stretch away from it is 2 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR East · JR Hokkaido — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
Along the way
- Sendai — city of trees
- Mt. Iwate near Morioka
- Aomori Bay
- Seikan Tunnel beneath the Tsugaru Strait
- Hakodate morning market
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