I rode on a Japanese bullet train with top speeds of nearly 200 miles per hour. Despite the downsides, I'd do it again.
I took Japan's famous bullet train Shinkansen for the first time. My trip from Osaka to Tokyo was quick with comfy seats, but I got motion sickness.
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Mt. Fuji’s fury: When it blows, ancient traces suggest disaster
YAMANAKAKO, Yamanashi Prefecture--Solidified lava from eruptions of Mount Fuji in the distant past offers frightening clues of what awaits if the sacred mountain blows its top again. Researchers ...
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Japan's speedy, spotless Shinkansen bullet trains turn 60
Each day nearly a quarter of a million passengers ride the Tokaido Shinkansen line, which stretches from Tokyo past Mount Fuji to Hakata around five hours away. One top-speed Nozomi train arrives ...
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Yamanashi ends Mt. Fuji railway plan, looks into rubber-tire tram
Yamanashi Prefecture has abandoned plans for a Mount Fuji railway line and is instead ... to coincide with the opening of the Linear Chuo Shinkansen maglev train line. Yamanashi Prefecture might ...
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Six of the world’s most amazing railway journeys
Travelling on the Tōkaidō Shinkansen Line, passengers are gifted an extraordinary glimpse of Mount Fuji. Japan’s tallest mountain, this volcano is famous for its snow-capped peak and ...
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City in Japan near Mount Fuji turns empty commercial spaces into lodgings for tourists
Despite the prefecture being home to well-known tourist destinations such as Mount Fuji and the Izu Peninsula ... through Shizuoka city on the Tokaido Shinkansen [bullet train]," said the 37 ...