The 600km Hokuriku Shinkansen will eventually provide a second high-speed rail corridor between Tokyo and Osaka via the north coast of Honshu. The first 117km section from Takasaki on the Tokyo - Niigata Joetsu Shinkansen to Nagano opened as the Nagano Shinkansen in October 1997 in time for the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano. Construction of the 228km Nagano - Kanazawa extension is well advanced and will open in March 2015. Work started in 2012 on a 120.7km extension from Kanazawa to Fukui and Tsuruga with completion scheduled for 2025. Three options are being studied for the final section to connect the Hokuriku line with the Tokyo - Osaka Tokaido Shinkensen.
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