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Japan's busiest shinkansen linking Tokyo, Osaka marks 60th anniv.
It had a maximum speed of 210 kilometers per hour, connecting Tokyo and Osaka in four hours. The current travel time has shortened to two hours and 21 minutes. The Tokaido Shinkansen Line ...
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The 60th Anniversary of the Tokaido Shinkansen: Part 1, The Evolution of High-Speed Rail
When completed, the Linear Chuo Shinkansen will cover the 285.6 km between Tokyo and Nagoya in just 40 minutes. That's right. When you want to raise the speed of the railway line, you have to ...
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High-speed Rail and the Spatial Distribution of Economic Activity: Evidence from Japan's Shinkansen
Our counterfactuals show that, without the Shinkansen, Tokyo and Osaka would be 6.3% and 4.4% larger, respectively. Published: Koster, Hans R.A., Takatoshi Tabuchi, and Jacques-François Thisse, 2022. ...