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There is now just one month until the end of scheduled 0-series Kodama services on the San’yo Shinkansen. Intermediate (for which, read ‘minor’) stations on the line, such as Higashi-Hiroshima, are good places to see the trains, because there are fewer photographers than at major stations, and because the Kodama services often make quite lengthy [...]

An 0-series Shinkansen (in the grey/green livery) calls at Mihara Station, on a Kodama service to Hiroshima.

As of today, it is just 100 days until the end of scheduled 0-series Shinkansen services (November 30, 2008).
Details of the services operated by the three remaining trains are here.

The 0-series Shinkansen are relatively easy to photograph, since they operate all-stations-stopping ‘Kodama’ services: the slowest services on the San’yo Shinkansen. Because of the frequency of ‘Nozomi’ (and ‘Hikari’) services, which do not stop at every station, ‘Kodama’ services have frequent station stops of several minutes, waiting for faster services to overtake. These longer station [...]