JR West vs Nankai - Shin-Imamiya to Kansai Airport

[miyakoji]

This video by YT contributor HINTEL1824TRAIN is really something.  He compares JR West and Nankai rapid services between Shin-Imamiya and Kansai Airport.  Notice, rapid services--these are not the Haruka and Rapi:t limited express services.  Although to confuse the issue, Nankai calls this a kyuko.  I was thinking about where else such a comparison could be made.  To match both geography and speed of service, there are not that many that I can think of.  A few somewhat close examples:

 

JR West vs Sanyo/Hanshin; JR West - Himeji to Osaka, Sanyo/Hanshin - Sanyo Himeji to Umeda.  JR West has a westbound Shin-kaisoku leaving Himeji at 5:47AM and arriving at Osaka at 6:48AM.  On the Sanyo/Hanshin direct service, there's train leaving Sanyo Himeji at 5:38AM and getting to Umeda at 7:13AM.  Big difference.

 

JR Central vs Kintetsu; JRC - Kuwana to Nagoya, Kintetsu - Kuwana to Kintetsu Nagoya.  JRC has a Kaisoku Mie leaving Kuwana at 8:23AM and arriving at Nagoya at 8:49AM.  Kintetsu has a no-charge kyuko leaving Kuwana at 8:25AM and arriving at Kintetsu Nagoya at 8:48AM.  Kintetsu makes two stops in between while the JRC train makes none.

 

JR Central vs Meitetsu; JRC - Kanayama to Owari-Ichinomiya, Meitetsu - Kanayama to Meitetsu-Ichinomiya.  JRC has the geographic advantage here as the Meitetsu line curves around quite a bit.  JRC has a special rapid (tokubetsu kaisoku in JRC lingo rather than JRW's shin-kaisoku) leaving Kanayama at 8:06AM and reaching Owari-Ichinomiya at 8:25AM.  Meitetsu's kaisoku-tokkyu (this thing had better go like hell) leaves Kanayama at 8:03AM and arrives at Meitetsu-Ichinomiya at 8:24AM.  Not bad!

 

Can anyone else think of any?  For some reason I really enjoy digging into ekikara.jp!

 

Here's the video:

 

[bikkuri bahn]

Other possible examples:

 

1. Keikyu Kaisoku Tokkyu vs. JR East Tokaido Line services Yokohama to Shinagawa (Tokaido Line trains are essentially kaisoku compared to local Keihin Tohoku trains)

 

2. Tsukuba Express vs. JR East Joban Line

 

3. Nishitetsu Omuta Line vs. JR Kyushu Kagoshima Honsen, Hakata (Tenjin) to Omuta