Hokutosei
Sign in to saveThe was a limited express sleeping car train service in Japan which operated between Ueno Station in Tokyo and Sapporo Station in the northern island of Hokkaido, taking approximately 16.5 hours. It was operated jointly by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) from March 1988. The service became a seasonal service from the 14 March 2015 timetable revision, and was completely discontinued in August 2015, in preparation for the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen.
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- Country
- Japan
- Operator
- East Japan Railway Company
- Image
- EF510-501 hokutosei.JPG
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- connecting line
- Esashi Line
- terminus
- Sapporo Station
- Commons category
- Hokutosei
- inception
- 1988-03-13
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2015-08-22
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Encyclopedic overview
19 sectionsContents
- Route
- JR East area
- JR Hokkaido
- Accommodation and facilities
- Sleeping accommodation
- Type A
- Type B
- Dining car
- Dinner Time
- Pub Time
- Morning Time
- Rolling stock
- Formation
- Past locomotives
- History
- Preservation
- See also
- References
- External links
The was a limited express sleeping car train service in Japan which operated between Ueno Station in Tokyo and Sapporo Station in the northern island of Hokkaido, taking approximately 16.5 hours. It was operated jointly by East Japan Railway Company (JR East) and Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido) from March 1988. The service became a seasonal service from the 14 March 2015 timetable revision, and was completely discontinued in August 2015, in preparation for the opening of the Hokkaido Shinkansen.
==Route== thumb|Hokutosei train destination indicator Going from Ueno to Sapporo, trains called at Ōmiya, Utsunomiya, Kōriyama, Fukushima, and Sendai. One train made additional stops at Ichinoseki and Morioka. The first stop in Hokkaido was at Hakodate, with arrival in Sapporo around five hours later.
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