Hokkaido Shinkansen
High-speed rail line in Hokkaido and Aomori Prefecture, Japan
Hokkaido Shinkansen
The Hokkaido Shinkansen (Japanese: 北海道新幹線, Hepburn: Hokkaidō Shinkansen) is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen rail line operated by the Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) that connects with the Tōhoku Shinkansen in northern Aomori Prefecture on Honshu and extends into Hokkaido through the undersea Seikan Tunnel. The line is 148.8 kilometres (92.5 mi) long and has a maximum operating speed of 260 kilometres per hour (160 mph). Construction began in May 2005, and the initial section between Shin-Aomori and Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto opened on 26 March 2016. An extension north to Sapporo, which will add 211.8 kilometres (131.6 mi) of new line, was originally scheduled to open by fiscal year 2030, but in December 2024 the opening was revised to the end of FY2038.
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