Japan launches new 300kph luxury bullet train

“Hayabusa,” the new luxury 186mph(about 300kph) Japanese bullet train, allows passengers to travel with their own cabin attendant.

Japan has launched a brand new 186mph luxury bullet train, complete with a business class carriage modelled on airliners, the British Daily Mail newspaper reported Monday.

A network of cutting-edge Shinkansen train lines has been built up across Japan since the 1960s, and the island nation now hopes to sell the technology abroad.

The latest ultra-fast train will make two trips a day between Tokyo and Aomori, a scenic rural backwater on the northern tip of the main Honshu island.

It will also make one more trip a day to Sendai, between Tokyo and Aomori.

Mutsutake Otsuka, chairman of East Japan Railway, said, “To the best of our ability, we will strive to improve Hayabusa's passenger comfort, safety and environmental friendliness, not just its sped.”

The thin-nosed train's debut journey was delayed by seven minutes after a passenger fell from the platform at Tokyo station, where more than 1,000 train spotters had gathered to take pictures.

The train was not moving at the time, and the man climbed back up to the platform unaided.

From next year, the green and silver E5 series will push its top speed to 200mph to become Japan's fastest train, the report said. .

일본 새로운 호화 초고속열차 ‘하야부사’ 공개

일본의 새로운 호화 초고속열차 ‘하야부사’는 승객들이 객실 승무원과 함께 여행할 수 있게 한다.

일본은 항공기 비즈니스좌석을 모델로 한 시속 186마일(약 300km)의 이 새 초고속열차를 공개했다고 영국의 데일리 메일이 7일 보도.

일본은 1960년대 이래로 최첨단 신칸센망을 전국에 걸쳐 완성했고 이제 이 섬나라는 초고속열차 기술을 해외에 팔기를 바라고 있다.

최신 초고속 ‘하야부사’ 열차는 도쿄와 혼슈섬 북단에 있는 경치가 좋은 조용한 벽지 아오모리 사이를 하루 2회 운행한다.

또한, 도쿄와 아오모리 사이에 있는 센다이를 하루 1회 운행할 예정이다.