The Tokaido Shinkansen is the original Japanese high-speed rail line, linking Tokyo and Osaka along Japan's Pacific coast since 1964. It set the template every later high-speed rail system, in Japan and abroad, would follow. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Established Year SignificanceWorld's first high-speed rail line, opened October 1, 1964, days before the Tokyo Olympics; carries some of the busiest passenger rail traffic anywhere. 1 TerminiTokyo Station to Shin-Osaka Station, Japan 1 Operational Status Connections
Operated By
Operated by Japanese National Railways from the line's 1964 opening until JNR's 1987 privatization, after which the Tokaido Shinkansen passed to Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central), an operator not yet separately catalogued here.
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1. Wikipedia: Tokaido Shinkansen
WikipediaLead section, sentence dating the 1964 opening before the Tokyo Olympics
Opened on October 1, 1964, shortly before the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, it was the first railway in the world built
- In Category: Routes and Services
- Operated By: Japanese National Railways
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