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Tohoku Shinkansen
The is a Japanese high-speed
Shinkansen
rail line, connecting
Tokyo
with
Aomori
in
Aomori Prefecture
in a route length of 674 km (419 miles), making it Japan's longest Shinkansen line. It runs through the more sparsely populated
Tohoku region
of Japan's main island,
Honshu
, and is being extended as the
Hokkaido Shinkansen
to Shin-Hakodate (due to open in March 2016) and
Sapporo
by 2030. It has two
Mini-shinkansen
branch lines, the
Yamagata Shinkansen
and
Akita Shinkansen
. The line is operated by
East Japan Railway Company
(JR East).
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