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From 9 March 1975, the train was upgraded with 24 series sleeping cars. [4] The final Hayabusa and Fuji service after arriving at Tokyo Station, 14 March 2009. The Hayabusa, along with its counterpart service, the Fuji, was discontinued from the start of the revised timetable on 14 March 2009 due to declining ridership. [5]
The Hayabusa (はやぶさ, "Peregrine falcon") is a high-speed limited express sleeping car service formerly operated by JR Kyushu which ran from Tokyo to Kumamoto in Japan until March 2009. The name is now used for a Shinkansen service operated by JR East and JR Hokkaido , which runs from Tokyo to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto from March 2016.
Hayabusa Station (隼駅, Hayabusa-eki) is a railway station on the Wakasa Railway Wakasa Line in Yazu, Tottori, Japan, operated by the third sector company Wakasa Railway. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Lines
A total of 59 10-car sets are on order, with three sets in service in time for the start of new Hayabusa services to Shin-Aomori in March 2011. [7] The H5 series, a cold-weather derivative of the E5 series, is operated by Hokkaido Railway Company (JR Hokkaido); it has been in use on Tohoku and Hokkaido Shinkansen services since 26 March 2016.
Four services currently operate on the Tōhoku Shinkansen, the all-stop Nasuno, and the limited-stop Yamabiko, Hayate, and Hayabusa, with the latter two providing through service onto the Hokkaido Shinkansen. As of 2021, the fastest travel times between Tokyo and Shin-Aomori are on the Hayabusa service, at 2 hours and 58 minutes. [2]
The introduction of the E5 series resulted in the introduction of the Hayabusa, which replaced the Hayate's role as the fastest train on the line. In addition, currently E5 series Hayate services still run at a top speed of 275 km/h. JR East have reduced Hayate services over the years, and unify the discontinued Hayate services to Hayabusa ...
The train was coupled with the Hayabusa sleeper between Tokyo and Moji Station. The Hayabusa separated at Moji and continued to Hakata and Kumamoto. The 1,240 km Tokyo-Ōita run took just over seventeen hours, leaving Tokyo at 18:03 and arriving in Ōita at 11:17. The return service left Ōita at 16:48 and arrived in Tokyo at 09:58. [3]
As was the case with sleeper train services in other parts of the world, the Blue Trains acquired a romantic aspect and, at the peak of their popularity in the late 1970s, appeared in many novels. They were sometimes described as "moving hotels". [1] The final Hayabusa and Fuji service after arriving at Tokyo Station on 14 March 2009