JR Hokkaido has announced that it will retire the rest of its JNR Era KiHa 183 (29 cars) and early JR Hokkaido Era KiHa 281 (27 cars) Ltd. Express DMUs by end of Fiscal Year 2022 (March 2023) and end of September 2022 respectively. The Ltd. Express services Okhotsk and Taisetsu that are currently running on the Sekihoku Line will be replaced by the remaining 25 KiHa 283 Series DMU cars that got replaced by the KiHa 261-1000 Series DMU serving the Ltd. Express Oozora, do note that the last three KiRo 282 Green Cars were scrapped earlier in March this year so those two services will no longer have Green Cars.
https://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/CM/Info/press/pdf/220713_KO_183.pdfhttps://www.jrhokkaido.co.jp/CM/Info/press/pdf/220713_KO_281.pdf>>1826195Indeed it is long whether it is displayed properly or not (aka here)
