年表
- 1985Revenue service begins on 1 October with a single Tokyo-to-Hakata Hikari working by the pre-series set; the pre-series X1 set had begun test running from 27 March that year.
- 1986First production sets enter service from 13 June (initially as 12-car Kodama sets); from the November timetable revision the X sets run as full sixteen-car formations including the dining car, on Hikari services.
- 1988From 13 March, G sets (carrying a cafeteria in place of the dining car) enter Hikari service on the Tokyo-Shin-Osaka route; the 50 G sets were built from 1988.
- 1989From 11 March, JR West's V sets (100N "Grand Hikari," with four double-decker cars) enter Hikari service between Tokyo and Hakata.
- 1992By the 14 March timetable revision all sixty-six sixteen-car sets are in service; construction of the type runs 1985-1992.
- 2000Dining-car service ends on 10 March; reformed four-car P sets enter San'yo Shinkansen Kodama service from October.
- 2002The V sets end operation on 23 November (after "Sayonara Grand Hikari" runs) and are reformed into shorter K and P sets for Kodama duties; the first six-car K set was formed in January for San'yo Kodama service from February.
- 2003Last regular Hikari runs on 22 August; the 100 series is withdrawn from the Tokaido Shinkansen on 16 September.
- 2011The last four-car P sets are withdrawn from revenue service (by 11 March / the 12 March timetable revision).
- 2012The six-car K sets leave regular operation on 14 March; the final run is the "Hikari 445" farewell working on 16 March, ending the type's revenue service on the San'yo Shinkansen.
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