Technology:
The long-cherished Hokkaido
Shinkansen (Bullet train) was inaugurated on March 26, 2016. It travels 149 km
between Aomori in Honshu and Hakodate in Hokkaido in about one hour through the
tunnel under the Tsugaru Straits. Now you can travel from Tokyo to Hakodate in
four hours and two minutes. The Hokkaido Shinkansen is scheduled to be extended
up to Sapporo, the largest and prefectural capital of Hokkaido, by the end of 2018.
With the extension, you can travel from Tokyo to Sapporo in about five hours.
in most of which the train travels under the water.
Various highly sophisticated
technologies have been developed to make the Hokkaido Shinkansen a reality. For
example, it uses the existing line for the first time as a Shinkansen Line. That
is, a Shinkansen train and a freight train go by each other on the existing
line as shown in the following video.
A Shinkansen train and a freight
train go by each other on the existing line.
Now you can visit Hokkaido aboard
a Shinkansen train and enjoy wonderful cuisines in Hokkaido without being
worried about flying above the ground. Japan wishes people from every part of the
world to enjoy Tokyo and Hokkaido during their stay in Japan.
Can you believe this? A bar in Tokyo
has a miniature Hokkaido Shinkansen to
entertain customers. This is typically
Japanese hospitality.
