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Table 3 List of Shinkansens with Development Plan already made, Source: MLIT
From: Japan’s transport planning at national level, natural disasters, and their interplays
Base plan | Name | Origin | Via | Destination | Length[km] | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
N/A | Tokaido-Sanyo | Tokyo | Osaka | Fukuoka | 1069 | In full operation |
1st | Narita | Tokyo | - | Narita Airport | 65 | Discontinued |
Joetsu | Tokyo | Takasaki | Niigata | 270* | In full operation | |
Tohoku (southern part) | Tokyo | Sendai | Morioka | 675 | In full operation | |
2nd | Tohoku (northern part) | Morioka | Hachinohe | Aomori | 179 | In full operation |
Hokkaido | Aomori | Hakodate, Sapporo | Asahikawa | 360 | Partly in full operation; partly under construction; partly only listed in Based Plans | |
Hokuriku | Tokyo | Kanazawa | Osaka | 491* | Partly in full operation; partly under construction; partly in planning | |
Kyushu-Kagoshima | Fukuoka | Kumamoto | Kagoshima | 257 | In full operation | |
3rd | Kyushu-Nagasaki | Fukuoka | Takeo | Nagasaki | 90* | Under construction |
4th | Chuo (Maglev) | Tokyo | Nagoya | Osaka | c.a. 500 | In planning |
Other 10 routes | N/A | N/A | N/A | c.a. 3000 | Only with Base Plans | |
Total | - | - | - | - | c.a. 7000 | - |