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Akita Shinkansen (the Komachi): This bullet train, which covers the 660 kilometers (410 miles) between Tokyo and Akita in 3 hours 49 minutes, debuted in March 1997. Like the Yamagata Shinkansen, it is capable of running on both conventional and bullet-train tracks, and it runs on the Tohoku Shinkansen tracks between Tokyo and Morioka. Komachi is a word for the beautiful young women of the Akita region.
