Day train
Spacia X
SPACIA X is Tobu Railway's limited express from Asakusa in Tokyo to Nikko and Kinugawa-Onsen, six times a day each way in about two hours.
Besides its standard and premium seats it has a seven-person Cockpit Suite behind the driver's cab, private Compartments for four and a lounge car with sofas and a café counter.
From
¥3,340
Length
about 1 hour 50 minutes
Age
Children pay half the fare and limited express charge, rounded up to the nearest ¥10
Japan
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A day
SPACIA X to Tobu-Nikko (numbers 1, 3, 5 and 11; back as 2, 4, 6 and 12)
Asakusa to Tobu-Nikko · Tokyo Skytree, Kita-Senju, Kasukabe, Tochigi, Shin-Kanuma, Shimo-Imaichi
Daily, all year: from Asakusa at 7:50, 9:00, 10:00 and 15:00 (in Tobu-Nikko 9:39, 10:50, 11:49 and 16:49); back from Tobu-Nikko at 10:20, 11:55, 12:55 and 17:44 (in Asakusa 12:15, 13:45, 14:45 and 19:35). Extra trains on set days: number 61 from Asakusa at 8:09 and 909 at 9:09, number 62 back from Tobu-Nikko at 15:26.
A day
SPACIA X to Kinugawa-Onsen (numbers 7 and 9; back as 8 and 10)
Asakusa to Kinugawa-Onsen · Tokyo Skytree, Kita-Senju, Kasukabe, Tochigi, Shin-Kanuma, Shimo-Imaichi, Tobu World Square
Daily, all year: from Asakusa at 12:30 and 14:00 (in Kinugawa-Onsen 14:32 and 16:04); back from Kinugawa-Onsen at 15:19 and 16:40 (in Asakusa 17:35 and 18:45)
The special cars
Cockpit Suite (car 6)
11 sq m · 1 on board
A private room for up to seven behind the driver's cab, with windows ahead as well as to the sides. Tobu calls it the largest private room on any private-railway limited express. Crew pass through it on their rounds.
Compartment (car 6)
A private room for up to four with a U-shaped sofa round a folding table, blue carpet and red and brown walls.
Cockpit Lounge (car 1)
Sofas for one, two or four in the car with the café counter; the interior takes the Nikko Kanaya Hotel and the old embassy villas of Nikko as its models. The four-person sofa is sold to parties of two or more.
Box Seat
Two seats facing each other, screened from the aisle by partitions: a half-private space for two.
Premium Seat (car 2)
Seats in pairs and singles, with electric recline, a movable neck-support headrest and a shell back so reclining does not touch the seat behind.
Before you go
Dining
No meals are served. GOEN CAFÉ SPACIA X, a counter in the Cockpit Lounge (car 1), sells Nikko coffee, craft beer including beers brewed for the train, and snacks and sweets, some from the Nikko Kanaya Hotel's bakery or devised by its head chef. Guests in the Cockpit Lounge, Cockpit Suite and Compartments use it freely; passengers in cars 2 to 5 can take away against an online ticket while slots last (about 20 parties a train). It is open from departure to Shimo-Imaichi going north and to Kasukabe coming back, and takes cards, IC cards and some code payments, not cash.
How it is booked
Tell us your dates and our team in Japan reserves the seats and any meal for you, passes on your preferences and requests, arranges anything special with the operator, and books the stays before and after.
Good to know
The Japan Rail Pass is not valid on Tobu trains, and the NIKKO PASS covers the fare only, so a limited express ticket is bought on top. The café is cashless.
Every fare
Fares as published in October 2026 (regular season), Asakusa to Tobu-Nikko, per person: ¥3,340 in a Standard Seat (¥1,400 fare and ¥1,940 limited express charge) and ¥3,920 in a Premium Seat (¥2,520 charge). A one-person sofa in the Cockpit Lounge adds ¥500 (¥3,840 in all); the two-person sofa is ¥1,000 and the four-person sofa ¥2,000, each per sofa. Room charges are per room, on top of each person's fare and Standard Seat limited express charge: the Cockpit Suite ¥18,000 for up to seven (¥24,680 for two from Asakusa to Tobu-Nikko), a Compartment ¥8,000 for up to four, a Box Seat ¥400 for two. On this journey the limited express charge is ¥200 more in busy periods and ¥200 less in quiet ones. No meal is included; the café is paid for on board.
About the train
Designed by Tobu Railway with Hitachi, which did the body design, design studies and build of the N100 series (in service from 15 July 2023), on the concept 'Connect & Updatable'. The white of the body is taken from the gofun whitewash of the Yomeimon gate at Nikko Toshogu, the window frames from Kanuma kumiko fretwork and kagome basket weave, and the Cockpit Lounge from the Nikko Kanaya Hotel and the embassy villas of Nikko.
Run by Tobu Railway, since 2023.
Good Design Award (2023); iF Design Award (2024); Blue Ribbon Prize of the Japan Railfan Club (2024); DFA Design for Asia Awards, Bronze (2024); Red Dot Award: Product Design (2025)
Stay before or after
Q&A
Tell us your dates and our team in Japan reserves the seats and any meal for you, passes on your preferences and requests, arranges anything special with the operator, and books the stays before and after.
Fares as published in October 2026 (regular season), Asakusa to Tobu-Nikko, per person: ¥3,340 in a Standard Seat (¥1,400 fare and ¥1,940 limited express charge) and ¥3,920 in a Premium Seat (¥2,520 charge). A one-person sofa in the Cockpit Lounge adds ¥500 (¥3,840 in all); the two-person sofa is ¥1,000 and the four-person sofa ¥2,000, each per sofa. Room charges are per room, on top of each person's fare and Standard Seat limited express charge: the Cockpit Suite ¥18,000 for up to seven (¥24,680 for two from Asakusa to Tobu-Nikko), a Compartment ¥8,000 for up to four, a Box Seat ¥400 for two. On this journey the limited express charge is ¥200 more in busy periods and ¥200 less in quiet ones. No meal is included; the café is paid for on board.
SPACIA X to Tobu-Nikko (numbers 1, 3, 5 and 11; back as 2, 4, 6 and 12): Daily, all year: from Asakusa at 7:50, 9:00, 10:00 and 15:00 (in Tobu-Nikko 9:39, 10:50, 11:49 and 16:49); back from Tobu-Nikko at 10:20, 11:55, 12:55 and 17:44 (in Asakusa 12:15, 13:45, 14:45 and 19:35). Extra trains on set days: number 61 from Asakusa at 8:09 and 909 at 9:09, number 62 back from Tobu-Nikko at 15:26. SPACIA X to Kinugawa-Onsen (numbers 7 and 9; back as 8 and 10): Daily, all year: from Asakusa at 12:30 and 14:00 (in Kinugawa-Onsen 14:32 and 16:04); back from Kinugawa-Onsen at 15:19 and 16:40 (in Asakusa 17:35 and 18:45).
Children pay half the fare and limited express charge, rounded up to the nearest ¥10; tickets cannot be bought for children travelling alone.