Classic route
Yakumo
Okayama → Izumo · Japan
- Distance
- 221 km
- Fastest time
- 3 h
- Average speed
- 74 km/h
- Top speed
- 120 km/h
- Operator
- JR West
- Train
- 273 series
- Countries
- Japan
- In service since
- 1972
Figures are published values, not live data · corrections log
JR West’s new 2024 tilting 273 series takes the Hakubi line’s passes to Izumo, home of Japan’s oldest grand shrine.
How this line was checked
- The 136 km this route shares with OpenStreetMap relation 1839656 is drawn from that relation's own nodes, thinned to within under 25 m of them
- Checked against OpenStreetMap: 96.4% of this line lies within 250 m of real track (median 16 m); the longest stretch away from it is 7.5 km
- The operator publishes this line's timetable: JR West — a place to look it up, not a check of our drawing
- Wikipedia has an article for this line
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