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Photo taken from the 9th car of the Sendai Express U5, E515-5. The speedometer runs out of power in the second tunnel after departing Shin-Aomori. This is the view from the window during the busy season schedule, when trains travel at 210km/h inside the Seikan Tunnel. That morning, trains departing from Tokyo were generally delayed, and the Hayabusa I was on was also delayed by 7 minutes. However, after departing Tokyo (6:25), Omiya (27:23), and Sendai (1:34:20), there were announcements that the train would return to its scheduled time, and it did indeed make it to Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto in 3 hours and 47 minutes, arriving right on schedule at 13:30. Even on the fastest Hayabusa train I have photographed in the past, the No. 7 had many sections travelling at around 300km/h, and the No. 44 had made up the 3 minute delay it experienced when departing Sendai by the time it reached Tokyo, so perhaps the schedule is set up so that even the fastest trains can make up for delays of around 10 minutes.0:00 Departure sign, arrives at station1:25 Tokyo - Ueno (passing) [+7 minutes] 4:55 Ueno (passing) - Omiya23:20 Omiya - Oyama (passing) [+6 minutes] 35:37 Oyama (passing) - Utsunomiya (passing) 41:55 Utsunomiya (passing) - Nasushiobara (passing) 50:15 Nasushiobara (passing) - Shin-Shirakawa (passing) 55:18 Shin-Shirakawa (passing) - Koriyama (passing) 1:02:00 Koriyama (passing) - Fukushima (passing) 1:09:45 Fukushima (passing) - Shiroishi-Zao (passing) 1:16:25 Shiroishi-Zao (pass) – Sendai 1:29:25 Sendai – Furukawa (pass) [+4 min] 1:39:25 Furukawa (pass) – Kurikoma Highlands (pass) 1:43:35 Kurikoma Highlands (pass) – Ichinoseki (pass) 1:47:30 Ichinoseki (pass) – Mizusawa-Esashi (pass) 1:52:18 Mizusawa-Esashi (pass) – Kitakami (pass) 1:55:33 Kitakami (pass) – Shin-Hanamaki (pass) 1:58:20 Shin-Hanamaki (pass) – Morioka 2:08:40 Morioka – Iwate-Numamiyauchi (pass) [+3 min] 2:18:13 Iwate-Numamiyauchi (pass) – Ninohe (pass) 2:26:20 Ninohe (pass) – Hachinohe (pass) 2:33:30 Hachinohe (passing) - Shichinohe-Towada (passing) 2:42:05 Shichinohe-Towada (passing) - Shin-Aomori 2:56:44 Shin-Aomori - Okutsugaru-Imabetu (passing) [+2 min] 3:09:10 Okutsugaru-Imabetu (passing) - Seikan Tunnel entrance 3:12:05 Seikan Tunnel entrance - Tappi fixed point (former Tappi submarine station) 3:17:10 Tappi fixed point (former Tappi submarine station) - Yoshioka fixed point (former Yoshioka submarine station) 3:24:40 Yoshioka fixed point (former Yoshioka submarine station) - Seikan Tunnel main exit 3:30:20 Seikan Tunnel main exit - Kikonai (passing) 3:36:50 Kikonai (passing) - Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto [arrival on time]