This train WILL depart on time. This is Japan. A futuristic looking Shinkansen waits to leave Tokyo station. JR staff are always immaculately turned out, with caps and white gloves.
Viewed from the 14th floor of the Hotel Sarasa Shin-Osaka, a Shinkansen, bullet train, accelerates rapidly out of Osaka.
The first Japanese Shinkansen carriage to be exhibited outside Japan was unveiled at Britain's National Railway Museum in York by His Excellency The Ambassador of Japan. Built in 1976, Series 0 ca... (more)
JNR Shinkansen Tokyo