page_title: Tōkaidō Shinkansen
section_title: Train services
hierarchical_section_title: Tōkaidō Shinkansen / Train services
caption_attribution_description: English: Mt.Ibuki with 300 Series Shinkansen.
context_page_description: The Tokaido Shinkansen is a Japanese high-speed Shinkansen line, opened in 1964 between Tokyo and Shin-Ōsaka. Since 1987 it has been operated by the Central Japan Railway Company, prior to that by Japanese National Railways. It is the oldest high-speed rail system in the world and one of the most heavily used.
  The line was named a joint Historic Mechanical Engineering Landmark and IEEE Milestone by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers in 2000.
context_section_description: Nozomi: limited-stop services, since March 1992
   Hikari: semi-fast services
   Kodama: all-stations shuttle services
  There are three types of trains on the line: from fastest to slowest, they are the Nozomi, Hikari, and Kodama. Many Nozomi and Hikari trains continue onward to the San'yō Shinkansen, going as far as Fukuoka's Hakata Station.
  700 series and N700 series train sets operate on the line in any of the three service patterns. The Hikari run from Tokyo to Osaka took four hours in 1964; this was shortened to 3 hours 10 minutes in 1965. With the introduction of high-speed Nozomi service in 1992, the travel time was shortened to 2 hours 30 minutes. The introduction of N700 series trains in 2007 further reduced the Nozomi travel time to 2 hours 25 minutes. As of 14 March 2015, after a speed increase to 285 km/h (177 mph), the fastest Nozomi service now takes 2 hours 22 minutes from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka.
  As of August 2008, Hikari services travel from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka in approximately 3 hours, with all-stopping Kodama services making the same run in about 4 hours.
  Nozomi trains are not valid for foreign tourists travelling with a Japan Rail Pass.
caption: Mt. Ibuki and the Tokaido Shinkansen
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