![]() ![]() ![]() (Add the scores of conventional lines that also pass through here, and what you’ve got is a veritable trainspotter’s paradise.) With a rail pass or the appropriate platform tickets, one might easily hop between the JR Central and JR East shinkansen sections to ogle most of the high-speed train classes currently in service, though I’ve always found the JR East platforms more interesting due to their larger variety of rolling stock. Right now, let’s talk about something else: the trains that I rode or saw along the way.Īs the terminus of no less than six shinkansen lines – eight if one includes through services on the Sanyō and Hokkaidō Shinkansen – Tōkyō Station is a great place to take in almost the entire sweep of Japan’s famed bullet trains. On a wet July day in Tōkyō (just a sliver over a year ago now), I decided to escape the dreadful weather by travelling hundreds of miles north to the drier landscapes of Iwate Prefecture … but we’ll save the sightseeing part for a different post.
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