年表
- 2005Pre-series 16-car prototype set Z0 completed on 4 March and unveiled at JR Central's Hamamatsu Works; on 7 September it recorded 320 km/h in a speed-up test.
- 2007Revenue service begins on 1 July; the first production Z set (Z1) had been delivered to JR Central in April, and trains entered service on eight daily Nozomi runs, replacing the 300, 500, and 700 series.
- 2008By the end of February 2009 the N700 was working 74 Nozomi services per day; the type received the Blue Ribbon Award (51st) in 2008.
- 2009On 16 November, JR Central ran a high-speed demonstration with set Z0, recording 332 km/h on the Tokaido Shinkansen between Maibara and Kyoto for international guests.
- 2011Eight-car N700-7000 (S, JR West) and N700-8000 (R, JR Kyushu) sets enter service on through Mizuho and Sakura runs from 12 March, with the full opening of the Kyushu Shinkansen.
- 2012From the 17 March timetable revision all regularly scheduled Nozomi services run with N700 series sets; JR Central announces (April) the retrofit of its 80 Z sets toward N700A specification, and the final Z set (Z80) is delivered in February.
- 2013Retrofitting of the original 16-car sets begins (fiscal 2013): JR Central's Z sets are renumbered X (2000 subseries) and JR West's N sets renumbered K (5000 subseries).
- 2020The successor N700S enters service on 1 July (first four sets), beginning the gradual replacement of the N700; withdrawals of N700 X sets commence in July (set X12).
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