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Despite its maiden voyage at 6AM on Sunday, the first public N700 drew quite a crowd. 1300 passengers enjoyed the 342 mile trip to Tokyo from Shin-Osaka Station, and in only two hours and twenty five minutesfive minutes shorter than... [Read More]

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Kit8930

By my calculations, the N700 travels at approximately 104 MPH. I found a distance of 251 miles from Tokyo to Osaka on http://www.geobytes.com/CityDistanceTool.htm
and divided 251 by 145 (minutes) then multiplied the quotient (1.731) by 60 minutes, which equals 103.86 MPH.

jinchin

Tokyo Station to Shin-Osaka Station is 515km... around 320 miles.

Kit8930

In which case, it would be 132.4 MPH, which makes a bit more sense.

jinchin

lol. actually the N700 runs faster than that. max speed is 300km/h (186mph), its just that certain sections of the railway does not permits speed that high.

http://www.railway-technology.com/projects/n700-shinkansen/

Thias

I think the fastest train in commercial operation is currently the french TGV. It runs at 320 km/h (200 mph):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TGV

A prototype train even reached 570 km/h this spring.

vagrant

The speed is cool and all, but don't miss out on the free WiFi access in the green car and the cheap seats too. They even have AC plugs for power.

http://internet.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2006/03/31/11463.html

stuz

http://www.h2.dion.ne.jp/~dajf/byunbyun/routes/tokaido.htm

Tokyo - Shin-Osaka 515 km
Shin-Osaka - Hakata 554 km

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