Luxury route
Tosa Toki no Yoake no Monogatari
Kochi → Kubokawa · Japan
Tosa Toki no Yoake no Monogatari in pictures
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- Distance
- 72 km
- Fastest time
- 2 h 36 min
- Average speed
- 28 km/h
- Top speed
- 110 km/h
- Operator
- JR Shikoku
- Train
- KiRo 185
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 2020
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
Ryoma-themed “dawn of a new era” train pairs Tosa seafood with Pacific panoramas above Susaki and Tosa-Kure bays, locals waving it through tea fields to Kubokawa.
How this line was checked
- Line drawn from OpenStreetMap relation 12261156 — the same nodes OpenStreetMap holds for this railway, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: the whole line lies on real track, a median 4 m from it
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR Shikoku — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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