Routes of the Shinkansen in Japan
There are 9 routes of Shinkansen. Tokaido-Shinkansen has most number of users in Japan. Tokaido-Shinkansen Starts from Tokyo and ends at Osaka. The rail leads to Hakata but from Osaka to Hakata is the section of Sanyo-Shinkansen.
The Tokaido-Shinkansen stops
Tokaido-Shinkansen has 17 stops like Tokyo, Nagoya, Kyoto and Shin-Osaka station.
You must be ware to ride the right type of train. There are 3 types of trains, Nozomi, Hikari and Kodama.
Nozomi is the Super express and stops at 6 stations.
Hikari is the express and stops at more than 6 and less than 15 stations. Hikari stops station change for each train.
Kodama is the local train and stops at all 17 stations.
Nozomi stop stations
Here are the station that Nozomi stops. Nozomi stop stations never change.
- Tokyo
- Shinagawa
- Shinyokohama
- Nagoya
- Kyoto
- Shin-Osaka
Hikari stop stations
It is slightly difficult to know witch station that Hikari stops. Every train stops at station that Nozomi stops. Other stations has train numbers that stop and do not stop.
Train numbers are unique in the same day. Same train number stops at same stops and same time to arrive and departure.
Here are the list for Hikari stop stations
- Tokyo
- Shinagawa
- Shinyokohama
- Odawara (several a day)
- Atami (several a day)
- Mishima (several a day)
- Shizuoka (mostly stops)
- Nagoya
- Gifu-Hashima (mostly stops)
- Maibara (mostly stops)
- Kyoto
- Shin-Osaka
You can find the timetable and stops at Central Japan Railway site.
Kodama stop stations
Kodama is friendly to ride cause it stops at every station.
Here are the stations. Includes all stations for Tokaido-Shinkansen.
- Tokyo
- Shinagawa
- Shinyokohama
- Odawara
- Atami
- Mishima
- Shin-Fuji
- Shizuoka
- Kakegawa
- Hamamatsu
- Toyohashi
- Mikawa-Anjo
- Nagoya
- Gifu-Hashima
- Maibara
- Kyoto
- Shin-Osaka