Oozora, or ‘Big Sky’, is the name of the express train that connects Hakodate, the rail gateway to Hokkaido, with Kushiro {see planets (3720) and (4096), respectively}, the largest city on the eastern side of the island. The 580-km journey takes less than eight hours. (M 26930) _ _.
Discovered on 13-11-1990 in Kitami by Takahashi, A., Watanabe, K.