It has been 40 years since the Tohoku-Hokkaido Line opened between Morioka Station in Iwate Prefecture and Omiya Station in Saitama Prefecture in 23 days.
It has been used by a total of 1.9 billion people in the last 40 years, and the maximum speed has increased by more than 100 km / h from the beginning.
The Tohoku Shinkansen opened 40 years ago on June 23, 1982, between Morioka Station in Iwate Prefecture and Omiya Station in Saitama Prefecture.
It extended to Ueno Station in Tokyo three years after its opening, to Tokyo Station nine years later, and to Hachinohe Station in Aomori Prefecture in 2002, and opened 12 years ago on all lines in Tokyo and Shin-Aomori.
According to JR East, the total number of users of the Tohoku-Hokkaido Shinkansen for the past 40 years has reached 1.9 billion.
The speed has also increased, and at the time of opening, the maximum speed was 210 km / h, and it took about 4 hours including the transfer time between Morioka and Ueno, but now the maximum speed has increased to 320 km, and the distance between Morioka and Tokyo has increased. It takes 2 hours and 10 minutes at the shortest.
The Tohoku-Hokkaido Shinkansen is also working on further speeding up with the aim of extending the Hokkaido Shinkansen to Sapporo in 2030, and is expected to play a role as an aorta connecting Tohoku and the Tokyo metropolitan area for business and tourism.