WEST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY Fact Sheets 2012
Other Development of New Shinkansen Lines
FIVE NEW SHINKANSEN LINES PROPOSED IN 1973 UNDER THE NATIONWIDE SHINKANSEN RAILWAY DEVELOPMENT LAW
Line Lines in Operation Approved Zone for Expense Burden Construction Implementation Plan JR-West JR-East Tsuruga – Kanazawa Morioka−Shin-Aomori Tohoku (Morioka−Aomori) (opened in December 2010, 178km) • Central government (existing 125 km Kanazawa – Joetsu 169 km Takasaki−Nagano Shinkansen transfer revenues, public Hokuhoku line Hokuriku (Tokyo−Osaka) Nagano−Kanazawa (228km), Fukui Station Area utilities expenses) Hokuriku (opened in October 1997, 117km) main line • Local governments (one-half of the Shin-Kurobe Hokkaido (Aomori−Sapporo) Shin-Aomori−Shin-Hakodate (148km) (provisional Itoigawa central government) name) Naoetsu Kanazawa Hakata−Kagoshima-Chuo • JR (usage fees with the upper limit to Echigo-Yuzawa Kyushu (Fukuoka−Kagoshima) Takaoka Iiyama (opened in March 2011, 289km) be determined by the range of Hakusan car maintenance center Nagano (Fukuoka−Nagasaki) (45km) expected benefits) Kyushu Takeoonsen−Isahaya Hokuriku Shinkansen Joetsu Joetsu Shinkansen (construction plan Shin-Takaoka (provisional submitted) (provisional name) name) Fukui Hakusan car maintenance Takasaki center – Nagano PLANNING OF NEW SHINKANSEN LINES (CONFIRMATIONS WITH THE GOVERNMENT (scheduled to be completed by end of FY2015) AND RULING COALITION PARTIES ON DECEMBER 26, 2011) Tsuruga Omiya In Operation Shin-Otaru Tokyo Planned New Shinkansen Line (Under construction) Sapporo Kanazawa−Tokyo Planned New Shinkansen Line (To be determined) 454 km Maibara Oshamanbe Kyoto Tsuruga – Hakusan car maintenance center Shin-Osaka Shin-Hakodate (scheduled to be completed by end of FY2026)
Shin-Aomori Hachinohe Akita JR-West JR-West Morioka
Shinjo Kanazawa Niigata Shin- Yamagata Travel Time Hakusan car Toyama Sendai Shimonoseki maintenance JR center *3 Hakata Hiroshima Joetsu Fukushima Airlines Takeoonsen Fukui Present*1 After starting operations*2 Okayama Nagano Isahaya Nan-etsu Shin-Tosu Tsuruga Takasaki Kanazawa — Tokyo About 3h 50m About 2h 40m About 2h 50m Nagasaki Hokuriku Shinkansen Toyama — Tokyo About 3h 10m About 2h 20m About 2h 30m Kumamoto Shin-Osaka Nagoya Omiya ① Nagano–Hakusan Car Maintenance Center*1 Shin-Yatsushiro Tokyo will be completed and start operations by the Notes end of FY2015*2. 1. Using the Joetsu Shinkansen and Hakutaka limited express train ② Hakusan Car Maintenance Center–Tsuruga 2. Average speed of 190km/h Kagoshima- will be completed and start operations at 3. Includes airport access and egress time Chuo some point more than 10 years after the start of operations at the Nagano–Hakusan Car *1 Hakusan car maintenance center is planned to be located from Kanazawa station to the west about 12 kilometers. Maintenance Center. *2 FY2015, etc., refer to the fiscal years ending March 2015, etc.
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