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| Above, a Joetsu shinkansen (connecting Tokyo and Niigata) at Tokyo Station. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
Japan's shinkansens, or "bullet trains", will be turning 50 in 2014. Japan is gearing up to celebrate fifty years of high-speed trains.
Inside Japan posted an "Ultimate Guide To Japanese Bullet Trains" along with a couple of videos of different bullet trains.
They start it with:
They’ve been clocked at up to 200 miles per hour, their tracks cover about 1,500 miles of the country and they safely and reliably transport hundreds of millions of passengers each year around Japan. The Shinkansen is better known simply as the “bullet train,” (a nickname it gets from its bullet-shape nose and fast speeds) was launched for the Tokyo Olympics way back in October 1964. In 2014, the Shinkansen will be 50!
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| Above, a "300 series" bullet train in 2001. This series was decommissioned in 2012. Photo by Armand Vaquer. |
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