Statistics for Nicknames of types of Shinkansen services

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Line	Type	Nickname	% Correct
Tokaido - Sanyo	Fastest (Tokyo - Shin-Osaka - Hakata)	Nozomi	96%
Tokaido - Sanyo	Semi-Fast (Tokyo - Shin-Osaka - Hakata)	Hikari	91%
Tokaido - Sanyo	Local (Tokyo - Shin-Osaka, Shin-Osaka - Hakata)	Kodama	86%
Sanyo -Kyushu	Fast (Shin-Osaka - Kagoshima-Chuo)	Sakura	82%
Tohoku	Fastest (Tokyo - Shin-Aomori - Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto)	Hayabusa	79%
Sanyo -Kyushu	Fastest (Shin-Osaka - Kagoshima-Chuo)	Mizuho	74%
Joetsu	Tokyo - Niigata, Echigo-Yuzawa or Nagaoka - Niigata	Toki / Max Toki	70%
Akita	Tokyo - Akita	Komachi	69%
Tohoku	Fast (Tokyo - Morioka, Morioka - Shin-Aomori, Shin-Aomori - Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto)	Hayate	64%
Hokuriku	Fastest (Tokyo - Kanazawa)	Kagayaki	55%
Kyushu	Local (Hakata - Kagoshima-Chuo)	Tsubame	55%
Hokuriku	Local (Tokyo - Nagano)	Asama	54%
Hokuriku	Fast (Tokyo or Nagano - Kanazawa)	Hakutaka	54%
Tohoku	Semi-Fast (Tokyo - Sendai or Morioka)	Yamabiko	54%
Tohoku	Local (Tokyo - Nasu-Shiobara or Koriyama)	Nasuno	53%
Sanyo	Semi-Fast (Shin-Osaka - Hakata)	Hikari Rail Star	44%
Yamagata	Tokyo - Shinjo	Tsubasa	44%
Joetsu	Tokyo - Takasaki or Echigo-Yuzawa	Tanigawa / Max Tanigawa	42%
Hokuriku	Shuttle (Toyama - Kanazawa)	Tsurugi	37%