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|} The 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 (JR Central), prior to that by Japanese National Railways (JNR). It is the most heavily travelled high-speed rail route in the world by far; its cumulative ridership of 5.3 billion passengers dwarfs all other systems and lines worldwide.〔〔 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. ==Train services== * ''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 Sanyō 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. , after a speed increase to 285 km/h, the fastest ''Nozomi'' service now takes 2 hours 22 minutes from Tokyo to Shin-Osaka. , ''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 cannot be used by tourists using the Japan Rail Pass.〔http://www.japanrailpass.net/eng/en004.html http://japanrailpass.net JAPAN RAIL PASS validity〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tōkaidō Shinkansen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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