Super Hakuto

Super Hakuto

A HOT7000 series DMU on a Super Hakuto service, April 2010
Overview
Service type	Limited express
Status	Operational
Locale	Tokaido Main Line, Sanyo Main Line, Chizu Express Chizu Line, Inbi Line, Sanin Main Line
First service	3 December 1994
Current operator(s)	Chizu Express, JR West
Route
Termini	Kyōto Kurayoshi
Stops	17
Distance travelled	254.0 km (157.8 mi) (Kyoto - Tottori) 293.2 km (182.2 mi) (Kyoto - Kurayoshi)
Average journey time	3 hours - 3 hours 30 minutes
Service frequency	7 return workings daily
On-board services
Class(es)	Standard + Green
Disabled access	Yes
Sleeping arrangements	None
Catering facilities	None
Observation facilities	None
Entertainment facilities	None
Other facilities	Toilet, smoking room
Technical
Rolling stock	HOT7000 series DMUs
Track gauge	1,067 mm (3 ft 6 in)
Electrification	Diesel
Operating speed	130 km/h (81 mph)
Track owner(s)	JR West, Chizu Express

The Super Hakuto (スーパーはくと) is a limited express train service in Japan operated by the third-sector railway operator Chizu Express and West Japan Railway Company (JR West), which runs between Kyoto and Kurayoshi in Tottori Prefecture at a maximum speed of 130 kilometres per hour (81 mph).^[1]

Trains stop at the following stations:

Kyōto – Shin-Ōsaka – Ōsaka – Sannomiya – (Kōbe) – Akashi – (Nishi-Akashi) – (Kakogawa) – Himeji – (Aioi) – Kamigōri – Sayo – Ōhara – Chizu – Kōge – Tottori – (Kurayoshi)

Stations in brackets () are stations where not all trains stop at.

• Only Super Hakuto no 13 stops at Kōbe, Nishi-Akashi, and Kakogawa
• Only Super Hakuto no 1 and 3 stop at Aioi
• Super Hakuto no 9 and 13 terminate at Tottori

• HOT7000 series tilting DMUs (since 3 December 1994)

• KiHa 181 series DMUs (3 December 1994 - November 1997)

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  KiHa 181 series DMU on a Hakuto service

Services are normally formed of five-car HOT7000 series sets, as shown below, with car 5 at the Kyoto end. All cars are non-smoking, although cars 1 and 5 have smoking rooms.^[1]

• Car 5 is sometimes replaced by a HOT7020 car with a gangwayed cab end.^[1]

Super Hakuto services commenced on 3 December 1994.^[2] Initially, Hakuto services using JR West KiHa 181 series DMUs were also operated over the same route, but these were discontinued from November 1997, from which date all six return services daily became Super Hakuto operating at a maximum speed of 130 km/h.^[2]

All cars were made non-smoking from 1 June 2008, from which time smoking rooms were added to cars 1 and 5.^[1]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Super Hakuto.

• Chizu Express Super Hakuto (in Japanese)
• JR West Super Hakuto HOT7000 series train information (in Japanese)