Sogo knew the true budget were double what he submitted to the Japanese Diet. He intentionally lied because, had he given the true estimate the project would never get build! Later on once the project had started he knew the government was committed to completion no matter the cost He was prepared to sacrifice his career to get the job done Nike ad
And eventually Japan now has 300 billion dollars in long term debt because of HSR construction. Money that will never be recouped and that basically bankrupted the Japanese National Railways in 1987. All in all, the construction of the Shinkansen, except for the Tokkaido Shinkansen, is a huge welfare loss for the Japanese.
In many cases the fast train travel is much more comfortable than flying. Like in Italy, where the 2X shuttle bus to the airport can de more expensive, than the tickets from train station to train station.
I hate Italian high speed trains. The air inside is extremely stale and dry. Also I hate the two in front of two seating with a useless table in between that cuts on the leg room. I'm 6'1", as are many italians, and I felt super uncomfortable.
I got scam at the Rome airport. Someone pretended to work their and people were lining up. He told us the trains were sold out and sold us shuttle bus tickets. I checked one of the vending machine and the train ticket wasn't sold out.
That’s true... if you take Milano to Rome (unless you fly from the city airport) you first need almost an hour to get to malpensa - and with italo. now you even have a choice of carriers
That depends on the duration of the travel to the airport for example if you get the train shuttle it will cost more than the regular train that stops almost at every station or the shuttle bus. I prefer to travel by bus as there is more space to put your luggages under the bus cuz the space in the trains is limited and near the exit, as you can't always find seats near it you could lose something
One other thing about the Bullet Train, there has never been a single fatality due to operational error since operations began nearly 60 years ago. The Shinkansen has had a practically spotless safety record. This has got to be the pinnacle of railway technology.
hyou zan ren well in truth, while high speed trains are ideal for places like Europe, Japan and China, they'd only work in some parts of America because of the sheer size of the country compared to its density. The costs would be far higher and the number of passengers wouldn't make it a worthwhile investment. If I had to guess, the only parts of America where this could work would be the North East and maybe California... maybe
James Franko but I'm going back to my original point though: Japan first did it in a really densely populated area and it costed a fortune. America could do it in a similar area, like the North East, but that's it. If they were to create a line that went from, let's say, Miami to New York, its cost would dwarf Japan's original line. Would there be enough people using that train to make it financially viable?
"Older trains were banned from the line." Those trains are a different gauge, so they can't run on the Shinkansen line anyway. So it's not really a "ban".
Same in India 😪 We have only 180km/hr high-speed railways (limited regions) Rest of all are 120km/hr but stays in between 90-100 due to very frequent railway junctions 😪😪
@@NativeVsColonial i think the highspeed rail between mumbai and ahmabad will be great for india, it might even increase tourisim in mumbai/surat/vapi ect... i just wish australia would speed up our current rails to more than highwayspeed
@@caesar7734 I doubt it, hyperloop is just way too expensive, and honestly a dangerous form of transportation as of now. I really don't see hyperloop becoming much of a success. (coming from an Elon fan right here)
@@puffypegion7815 I'm pretty sure Hyperloop will never work, why don't we just keep building more lines of a system that actually exists and has been proven to work, y'know, high-speed rail.
@@LuisMendoza-wj7lc yeah exactly, if anything, with enough time, Maglev technology will probably be able to reach that of hyperloop. Hyperloop is just an overhyped concept really...
Loved riding the Shinkansen in Japan. Everything is spotless, train timing is down to the minute, and they sell cute little bento boxes on the platforms
I went to Japan a year and a half ago, and the Shinkansen is so nice. It's a bit expensive (more than a flight would have been I think), but waaaay more leg room than an airplane and you don't have to go to the airport, go through security, taxi to the runway, ... you get the rest. Plus, you get some nice views from the train. The plane you wouldn't get as many (although seeing the clouds/ocean is still nice, just really far below the plane).
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dmitriy40 - In the US, it's more political. The US is a car country, has always been. Its infrastructure is built in a way that encourages people to use the car, even across the coasts. It's unfortunate, but it's not like the US can't build fast trains. They can if they want to. Let's say for the sake of argument, the US doesn't have the technology or the expertise to do that, then they can always lend Japan's help. After all, Japan is US's closest ally. The US helped build Japan after WW-II. So the reasons why you don't see fast trains in the US are more political than anything else.
@@stephaniehale946 I have been living in the US for thr last 26 years, and I am eternally grateful to you for explaining "how things are". You are assuming things are "political" only in the States, and executing $4BIL infrastructure projects is easy elsewhere, aren't you? BTW, my original comment was intended as a mild joke...
dmitriy40 - It doesn't matter where in the world you live, you don't understand the US politics. Do you know what does "lobbying" mean? It's a business in itself, unlike any other country in the world. Yes, executing a $4 billion or $400 billion projects are easier elsewhere, because elsewhere Congress is not as divided for the most part. There is a reason why the US is pretty much the only country in the developed world without universal healthcare. Again, lobbying.
Although there are other high speed rail lines in Asia, don’t be fooled, Japan is by far the best. They have the most consistent trains, the fastest trains, and the highest quality. Riding a bullet train, especially in first class, is not much different from being in a private jet. And the view of the country side is beautiful.
Nah, not anymore. You can balance a coin on its side on the Chinese HSR but it will roll off on the Japanese HSR. The Chinese trains are much smoother, providing a better experience. The Chinese trains on the busy routes actually run faster than the Japanese trains too.
Can’t trust anything made in China. Just wait until those trains start flying off the tracks when they break down. China has the worst maintenance mentality in all of Asia. I’ve rode on both Chinese and Japanese bullet trains and agree with OP.
chinito77 Look at the facts. The Chinese HSR system is safer than Europe's. It has had 1 accident while having more kilometers of tracks than the rest of the world combined. Europe has had about 4 (5 now, new accident in Spain) accidents while having much less kilometers of HSR tracks laid. The Chinese HSR line is about as safe as the American airplane industry. The number of kilometers traveled by the Chinese HSR system is already nearing what the Japanese have accumulated all these decades.
People should also know that the plane route between Tokyo-Osaka is one of busiest domestic route in the world as well as Shinkansen route is. Basically, crazy amounts of people are moving in two cities.
I rode the Shikansen from Fukuoka to Kyoto then to Tokyo(stopped twice for sight seeing) and it was one of the best times traveling. The speed and engineering are superb(I love when two trains cross in opposite directions, not sure how they solved that wind problem) but what's great is seeing the Japanese country side on a summer day. Small villas, bridges, and acres of rice paddies can be seen in the distance even at high speed.
Its amazing that japan's rail just keeps on expanding since the end of the war. Meanwhile in the philippines, our rail infra went wayy down since before ww2 from more than 100km to lower than 100 km today
I don’t know if anybody heard of this, but Texas has been planning to make a high speed rail line between Houston and Dallas, using the N700 rolling stock from Japan.
mukoue7303 It will never happen, they've been talking about it for years. The reality is that you would get to your destination and not have transportation. No one will ride.
@@theheartoftexas Do cities in Houston and Dallas not have buses? Subway? Taxis? Uber? RentaCar? I thought in every major metropolitan area there would be an abundance of alternative transportation to self-owned cars. Maybe America is 50 years behind nowadays.
Omni Yes, we have alternative transportation, but it's inconvenient and expensive. Buses do not run everywhere, the nearest bus stop to me is 8 miles away and requires you to cross a freeway. No subways. Dallas and Houston have light rail, but the lines are extremely limited. Taxis and Uber are extremely expensive, only doable for a trip or two (realize that these are very large metropolitan areas). Rental cars are the only real option, but again, are expensive. It's far cheaper and far easier to drive. Also, when they have studied the issue of building these high speed trains for most areas of the country, they have found that the train fare would be as much as, if not more than flying (which is faster). So, this idea has always been dismissed.
America: we have the greatest vehicles of all time! look at that constellation! *japan builds high speed train America: HA! can't beat us with that "fast trains" of yours our planes will be the image all around the world! *japan finishes high speed trains and beats america america: [surprised pikachu]
you must understand that trains are bad. 1.) they are communist. ussr made trains. that's bad. if they do something, we do opposite. 2.) no freedom. i want to drive to my destination, not use the train and walk 10 feet. >:( 3.) no gaming lights. bruh, trains dont look cool enough. it's lame. i can add disco lights to my car.
I wonder if you would like a 60 hour journey across Siberia from Shanghai to Paris. Unless it is a sleeper, I would opt for the jetliner (hopefully those turbines are powered by fuel cells instead of the brute force heat from the burning kerosene).
@@unf3z4nt The turbine engines of aircraft are always powered by the brute force heat from burning kerosene, with no change in sight. And some people actually enjoy the trip and seeing the countryside as they go.
@@unf3z4nt The Transsiberian is meant to be a leisure trip if you take it for its whole length. Most who take it get on and off on the stations in between.
We just have horrible politicians being voted in by ignorant voters. We recently just purchased an expensive diesel train to go from downtown Toronto to the airport. None of our lines are electric yet. And a large subway system expansion that was supposed to be completed within the next 5 years was cancelled by our old crackhead mayor.
@@drdewott9154 I've never ridden Amtrak, but Via is just barely faster than car speeds (when it doesn't completely stop to let commercial traffic pass), has horrible WiFi and shakes side to side so much that you don't wanna pee standing up in the washroom.
I rode the high speed train in China many times. It went about 180mph (like 305km?), but it felt smoother than highway driving and didn't make much noise at all. Getting to the platform was also about 10x more convenient than any aiport (security, location of station)
Here in Spain the entire country is connected with our high speed trains (it reaches the speed you said, 300km) and, boy, it's the best way to travel. So comfy and fast.
MrWalker1000 No, it's their own trains. The only German train in China is the Maglev. There's only 1 short Maglev line in China running from the Shanghai Airport to the city.
In the case of Japan, the project was viable because there was enough ridership from Tokyo and Osaka (and Nagoya in-between) to justify the enormous expense of the project. Indeed, the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo Station and Shin-Osaka Station is the busiest high-speed rail line in the world even now.
@ I disagree. When the original Tokaido Shinkansen line was built, it went *WAY* over budget--and that's with JNR using some of the tunnels that had already been built for an faster rail line planned during World War II. It was only the massive number of riders on the system (3 hours 10 minutes from Tokyo to Osaka one-way in 1965 was a huge improvement over previous means, which immediately attracted riders) that ensured JNR finally making money on the project in the late 1960's, which funded the first major line expansion, the San'yo Shinkansen from Osaka to Fukuoka.
If all goes well, Texas could have the very first high-speed railway with a Bullet Train connecting Dallas to Houston sometime between 2021-2024. A 4 hour drive would then turn into an hour and a half train ride away.
The Japanese who always plan ahead decided that an advanced economy needed to be able to transport a skilled population quickly and efficiently to and from their jobs and schools and industries.
@Shreyash The Slayer this is one of the reasons why I hate some indians in general.. they can't even take a joke similar to some american people on the internet
Will not happen in a 1000 years, by then nobody would want to visit the Americas because of how backwards the two continents have become compared to the Old World, Australia and Zealandia.
Their building one in Florida, Nevada, and Texas. Heck the Florida one is already running between Florida and West Palm Beach with an extension to Orlando just beyond the horizon so you don't have to wait long 👍
Kamalakanta Mohapatra I live in Mumbai and I have been hearing this since last 5 years. I haven't seen any progress, if the project has even started. To me it is still a word of mouth. Don't expect it before 2040.
Man I'm just glad my home country (Denmark) is finally jumping on the band wagon. We have had fairly high speed trains for years, (Heck our "Thunder train" was one of the first high speed diesel train services when it was introduced back in 1935) We're finally now catching up to our neighbors. We've had 2 ICE branches as well as Swedish X2000 trains running in the country for years but both of them used the older non upgraded rail lines and one of the ICE lines even had to board onto a ferry. Nowadays that's changing though. A High speed line is under Construction between the Copenhagen's Central Station and the Province town of Ringsted because of the line between the 2 at the moment being at full capacity, This new stretch of line will be able to have trains running on it at speeds of up towards 250km/h and have trains continue down the current cross country line to the western part of Denmark (though the news trains being ordered by the state railroads can only run 200 km/h). From Ringsted the current line to the German ferry route (Rødby-Puttgarden) is being upgraded to being electric and have trains able to run at 200km/h as well as the replacement of the ferry with an underwater tunnel. From there the trains will continue on a brand new high speed line from Fehmarn to Lübeck where it'll connect to the rest of the German ICE network. So yeah cool stuff.
Thats not high speed. High speed trains are trains going 300km or186mph and actually Denmark doesnt have any HSR just higher speed train that go 200km< but >300km
Meanwhile in the Netherlands. Dutch Railways spent billions on an own high-speed railway. They bought way too cheap and unreliable trains. Trains broke down piece by piece. Fast Thalys trains from Belgium and our own regular (and way slower) Intercity locs are riding the expensive high-speed line now. :D
You can see one of the first shinkansen engines at the Omiya train museum! If that's the sorta thing that interests you, definitely check it out if you're in Saitama!
'Catch up' what do you mean by that. The Japanese are building India's Bullet train line between Ahmedabad to Mumbai using money they gave as loans to India. China builts it's own Bullet trains unlike India.
@@nabeelmohammedca Actually, China use the technology from Japan, Germany, Canada and Finland( if my memory is correct) when developing its system However , in recent years , the country already developed its own system of high speed railway, but the system is a little like that in Japan, as many China's train use parts from Japan
@@alphagopage7869 That's true, what I'm trying to say is that India is building this project on loans provided by Japan. To pay off those loans and be profitable in the future the ticket price would be high, which a lot of Indians can't afford. Business people will choose to travel by air instead of using the bullet train because the ticket prices on both will be similar and an airplane is faster than a bullet train. The business model in Japan won't work here in India because wages of average workers are lower. This project is meant for ordinary people isn't?
*Those commenting on the US - In the US, it's more political. The US is a car country, has always been. Its infrastructure is built in a way that encourages people to use the car, even across the coasts. It's unfortunate, but it's not like the US can't build fast trains. They can if they want to. Let's say for the sake of argument, the US doesn't have the technology or the expertise to do that, then they can always lend Japan's help. After all, Japan is US's closest ally. The US helped build Japan after WW-II. So the reasons why you don't see fast trains in the US are more political than anything else.*
The US can't build high speed rail even if it wanted to. Look at the california high speed rail, takes ages to build is hugely over budget and now they are including a lot of non high speed rail in the trajectory. Even though the LA to San Francisco route is perfect for high speed rail, the US doesn't seem to approach this opportunity properly.
William Hale If the USA is a car country, then why are the roads so crappy. We have no roads that even come close to the Autobahn in Germany, and our drivers education is a joke. We give licenses out to nitwits, then wonder why our highway fatalities are so much higher than other nations. Even our currently existing rail systems are a deadly joke. How many accidents has Amtrak had compared to other systems worldwide? This nation is third world, and we don’t have the guts to admit it.
starventure - That's correct. It applies to all kinds of infrastructures - roads, trains, freeways, airports, etc. There is just too much politics into those things nowadays. Also, these things require work by both the federal and the state governments, so that's another issue where it's difficult for them to work together. When it comes to the physical infrastructure, the US is certainly the third world in many ways.
Not really, it's more of trying to transport people in cattle trailers. The U.S.'s rail network was built primarily for and optimized for our miles long freight trains, which has made it one of the world's best freight distribution networks, but trying to shove higher speed passenger trains onto routes designed for slow, long freights just doesn't really work out that well.
Here in the Netherlands we're wondering ourselves if airlines should be counted as public transit as well. If that's really the case, you Americans are surrounded by public transit. Unless everyone is going to buy pickup private jets of course.
An issue with the continental USA is there are relatively few corridors that can justify the enormous expense of a high-speed rail line. I can only think of three: Boston to Washington, DC, Chicago to Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Dallas to Houston.
Where is that first shot from? Must be somewhere shortly after Shin-Fuji st. towards Tokyo. And shot with super telephoto, to have Fuji so big in a frame.
to be precise, the "wider tracks" were simply using the normal international gauge of 1.435m width. It is simply that the usual Japanese railway network is on a metric gauge.
America has horrible passenger trains, but our freight trains, we have the best freight system, plus the world's most powerful locomotive. But trains the American passenger train was great, until the about 1960.
Japan did a great job on trains.Good for them.really hope there could be a high speed train linking Asia and Europe,from China to Kazakhstan，Russia,Poland,Germany,Belgium,France,eventually get to British,that would be pretty dope.i really wanna give that a try.
just get Russia to upgrade the trans-Siberia railway to specs... you would get that HSR faster ... (it would be more of a higher speed line than high-speed line)
It would be a great infrastructure and jobs project to start construction for lines from Boston to Miami and Seattle (Vancouver BC even better) to San Diego. it won't ever happen but it would be great.
What wasn't mentioned in the video is that Japan's earthquake-resistant engineering design and technology are something of a world of its own, which the Shinkansen makes full use of. If I were a government official in earthquake-prone locations (e.g. West-coast U.S., Indonesia, Philippines, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan) considering high-speed rail, then no contest I'd go for Japan's.
Alex Mercer I Because the Chinese do not care about safety and will run their trains as fast as possible in order to make more money from it’s passengers. You should know Chinese way of thinking. As for smooth, geography...of course Japan has more earthquakes than China.
Alex Mercer In terms of speed, the Chinese government owning 100% of the land in China obviates the need for land acquisitions and enables train tracks to be laid in the most efficient, straight-line path. Moreover, eastern and southern China (that is, where most of the high-speed rail routes are concentrated) consist mostly of vast plains in contrast to Japan's mountainous topography. I'm not sure what you mean by "smoothness" but if you mean comfort, then I'll just note that the typical Chinese bullet train experience is characterized by the presence of asshats who think it's fine to sit in your seat until you show up, dirty or faulty washrooms, and passengers yelling into their phones or watching videos with no headphones at loud volumes.
Y O wtf southern China is full of mountains. The plains are in the East to the North. China's trains are smoother as well. You can balance a coin on its side on the Chinese trains without it falling off while it would immediately fall off on the Shinkansen. There are videos all over youtube of those.
@Andrés Iniesta Nah a coin stands on Shinkansen too. Shinkansen "érmepróba" / Shinkansen "coin test" And one thing you need to know is that the alignment between Shinkansen and crh lines. The former is R2500, the latter is R7000~9000, or on some lines it’s even R12000. High speed lines in china are FAR shallower than Shinkansen lines.
Plapla That's the South Korea coin, not the Swedish coin. You need to use the same coin on both trains to do the test. Only then will we know which is more stable. The alignment is part of the journey. A straighter alignment provides the customer with a better experience. These are all part of the plan. A smaller radius is desired for a smoother journey.
As a regular rider of the bullet train, a faster train system is in the works. It will connect Tokyo to Osaka in about 48 minutes. This I am looking forward to! I love Japanese innovation and it’s far future planning.
Spain wasn't mentioned :( We have a fairly dense high speed train network (with some poor decisions added in) but it's far better than the German one for example.
Carlos Balaguer Ya pero como todo el mundo piensa que España está como Grecia y por alguna razón que desconozco los youtubers de habla inglesa tienen un tabú alrededor de España. Es una pena que no se nos reconozca algo en lo que somos buenos.
@Filipus Adendum you forgot Talgo :) And yes, the technology in some things is imported from France and Germany, but there are plenty other things designed and developed by spanish companies, bye my friend and hope you enjoy our playas when you visit us.
Could you please describe in what way it is better than the German one? In Germany, even the smallest villages have train connections to the surrounding bigger cities and from there almost always direct trains to any part of Germany. For example, to go from Munich in the south to Bremen in the North, you don't need to change trains at all.
Currently when I write this at May 11th, 2019, the Shinkansen max speed is 320 km/h on the Tohoku Shinkansen between Utsunomiya and Morioka. JR East planned the max speed 360 km/h by 2020.
But trains can only be successful when you have a high population density where owning a car is not financially sound. Look at HKG. A parking space could cost as high as a small apartment in the US.
This only works between two high density locations that are relatively close to each other. That's why this won't catch on in most of America. Besides their coast lines, their population simply isn't dense enough to support these lines.
I photographed the sunset in France when traveling from Paris to Rotterdam a few weeks ago, it was hard because you were going with 300 km/u, with all kinds of objects (to reduce noise and let the line go pass on a right track, because france has a lot of hills and so on). But it worked and I got the shot I wanted. And damn it was fun to drive the train. Like, I just went to Paris for 2 days, the whole trip costed me 500 euro, 75 euro for the train forth and back, 60 euro for the hotel and the rest was just tickets for the entry of monuments/foods and drinks). It was a bit confusing how to get in the train, which isn't fun when being autistic, but, once in the train the ride, even in second class, was seriously comfortable/silent and like the only noice you hear from the train was when it started to go hard, but when it did, it was more silent then anything can ever be. Like you could sleep for 2 and a half hours without any problems. I did really like the Thalys a lot. And now I wanna try out the Eurostar to Londen. But, yeah first I need to get by the trip to Paris, because being autistic, there were way to much sounds/things that made my brain super tired and still getting to normal state again. One thing I do know, as I am very fat, I will rather use trains then airplanes, also I do not like busses at all. The car is the only thing I use, oke and bicycle, but in the Netherlands you can take them with you so. Besides the train. And for me it was another archievement, because 5 years ago, I didn't even dare to go on public transport at ALL. In Paris that's the only thing I used. I would love to go to Japan once. Because of 3 reasons: Anime, the Bullet-train and Fireworks. But from Holland to Japan is like the most expensive trip possible. So, saving money as it is...
Thank you for picking up the 🇯🇵Japanese 🚅Bullet train (Shinkansen). I am really proud of 🇯🇵Japan and it is very convenient. I am surprised that 🇺🇸America is not running at all in developed countries.
Meanwhile in India in 2020, no train can touch 200kmph, no one can imagine the same. And every other train is late. Interiors have started to improve though.
@@randomnickify For the Shinkansen project, around 60 billion yen was used for land acquisition out of the 380 billion yen total cost. Not a small amount, but not that huge because they had already started purchasing land during the war.
Lol. I used to live in the US, and if you didn't own a car you basically had no means of transport, and riding a train was considered poor. Whereas in Japan if you own a car it means you live in the countryside, and if you don't own a car and live near the station it means you can afford the rent and have easy access to public transport.
Here in the netherlands we have on of the worst railways in the universe. Terribly expensive and they drive 1990s doubledeckers which only go max 130 km/u at peak times. The trains barely get proper cleaning and maintenance. The only thing they do is picking existing trains and give them a make over once in a while.
The rail prices here in the UK are astronomical, surpassing prices for flights to places thousands of miles away, if we had this high speed rail I could only see the prices going one way... Up. The trains here are always late due to some film flam excuse for a reason, and in some cases they don't even give you a reason at all, the prices have just gone up recently and that's even after the fact that most of them are late or completely cancelled, it's a joke of a service and we should all boycott the trains until it's sorted but that's impossible as so many people rely on it to get to work... And they know this. My girlfriend has her train to work cancelled at least 2 or 3 times a week meaning she has to run to the station (because they let you know right at the last minute) and then has no time for a ticket as she would miss the train then the conductor tries to fine her for not having said ticket, the whole thing is a mess.
You saying older trains were banned is similar to saying older trains were banned from hyperloop infrastructure. Well, duh!. They're not compatible with each other so, one would believe a 'ban' is vital.
Not suitable to India . What India needed is many fast trains for Mass transport not this costly high speed train. India is a over populated country with vast population under BPL who can't afford or fit in this bullet train
D C ... please get your info right india has many mass transport systems like buses , metros , trains etc .. and yeah only 5.3% of Indian population is poor and India is pulling out close to 100 people per min out of poverty .. India need to progress so it needs High speed rail
@@rex_schd People such as yourself also existed when computers were introduced in India in the late 1980. Look at the IT industry it has spurred today. The same is expected due to introduction of Bullet train & subsequent transfer of technology in the MSME sector.
Sogou and Shima are not the one who invented Shinkansen!! Tadanao Miki is the inventor of the Shinkansen.He's the one who inventing it after he was fired following the allied occupation in Japan
I prefer to travel by train long distance which I do travel on Amtrak. I also travel on Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner when I’m home in he San Diego area from San Diego to Los Angeles & Oxnard,CA alternating my visits between Los Angeles & Oxnard. It beats driving on the I-5/U.S.101 & I-405 parking lots and also beats the bus, beats flying domestically. The only way I’ll fly is Trans Pacific between Los Angeles & Manila on Philippine Airlines, Los Angeles & Honolulu, San Diego & Honolulu on Hawaiian Airlines, Trans Atlantic between Boston & Dublin’s on Aer Lingus Irish Airlines, Between Boston & Oslo on Scandinavian Airlines and between Philadelphia & Rome on Alitalia Airlines.
Sogo knew the true budget were double what he submitted to the Japanese Diet. He intentionally lied because, had he given the true estimate the project would never get build!
Later on once the project had started he knew the government was committed to completion no matter the cost
He was prepared to sacrifice his career to get the job done
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2:27, and after that, due to his DELICADEZA, he resign.
But that’s like the standard, at least in Germany (where I come from) about every government development takes longer than projected and costs more
And eventually Japan now has 300 billion dollars in long term debt because of HSR construction. Money that will never be recouped and that basically bankrupted the Japanese National Railways in 1987. All in all, the construction of the Shinkansen, except for the Tokkaido Shinkansen, is a huge welfare loss for the Japanese.
In many cases the fast train travel is much more comfortable than flying. Like in Italy, where the 2X shuttle bus to the airport can de more expensive, than the tickets from train station to train station.
I hate Italian high speed trains. The air inside is extremely stale and dry. Also I hate the two in front of two seating with a useless table in between that cuts on the leg room. I'm 6'1", as are many italians, and I felt super uncomfortable.
I got scam at the Rome airport. Someone pretended to work their and people were lining up. He told us the trains were sold out and sold us shuttle bus tickets. I checked one of the vending machine and the train ticket wasn't sold out.
That’s true... if you take Milano to Rome (unless you fly from the city airport) you first need almost an hour to get to malpensa - and with italo. now you even have a choice of carriers
That depends on the duration of the travel to the airport for example if you get the train shuttle it will cost more than the regular train that stops almost at every station or the shuttle bus. I prefer to travel by bus as there is more space to put your luggages under the bus cuz the space in the trains is limited and near the exit, as you can't always find seats near it you could lose something
I remember hearing that one Italian 'nickname' translated as "the prime minister's dildo". Having ridden from Milan to Rome, I can see why.
One other thing about the Bullet Train, there has never been a single fatality due to operational error since operations began nearly 60 years ago. The Shinkansen has had a practically spotless safety record. This has got to be the pinnacle of railway technology.
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hyou zan ren well in truth, while high speed trains are ideal for places like Europe, Japan and China, they'd only work in some parts of America because of the sheer size of the country compared to its density. The costs would be far higher and the number of passengers wouldn't make it a worthwhile investment. If I had to guess, the only parts of America where this could work would be the North East and maybe California... maybe
James Franko how would it work then? Bullet trains are very expensive
It might be possible if America didn't blow half its national budget on its armed forces every year.
James Franko but I'm going back to my original point though: Japan first did it in a really densely populated area and it costed a fortune. America could do it in a similar area, like the North East, but that's it. If they were to create a line that went from, let's say, Miami to New York, its cost would dwarf Japan's original line. Would there be enough people using that train to make it financially viable?
Coronavirus is spreading like bullet train in China.
"Older trains were banned from the line." Those trains are a different gauge, so they can't run on the Shinkansen line anyway. So it's not really a "ban".
Meanwhile in Australia, we are still arguing about the safety of public Electric Scooters 🛴 😂😂 smh
Same in India 😪
We have only 180km/hr high-speed railways (limited regions)
Rest of all are 120km/hr but stays in between 90-100 due to very frequent railway junctions 😪😪
@@NativeVsColonial i think the highspeed rail between mumbai and ahmabad will be great for india, it might even increase tourisim in mumbai/surat/vapi ect... i just wish australia would speed up our current rails to more than highwayspeed
Same discussion as in Germany with many claiming only in Germany people would heatedly debate issues like this
Idiots
Lmao it's also happens in Indonesia *smh
Japan is currently working on the Chuo Shinkansen, a maglev version of the Tokyo-Osaka high speed rail line capable of even higher speeds.
Hyperloop will make it obsolete in a decade.
@@caesar7734 I doubt it, hyperloop is just way too expensive, and honestly a dangerous form of transportation as of now. I really don't see hyperloop becoming much of a success. (coming from an Elon fan right here)
@@puffypegion7815 I'm pretty sure Hyperloop will never work, why don't we just keep building more lines of a system that actually exists and has been proven to work, y'know, high-speed rail.
@@LuisMendoza-wj7lc yeah exactly, if anything, with enough time, Maglev technology will probably be able to reach that of hyperloop. Hyperloop is just an overhyped concept really...
@@LuisMendoza-wj7lc problem with highspeed rail is it already at max capacity, that why it’s slowly being replaced by maglev technology.
Loved riding the Shinkansen in Japan. Everything is spotless, train timing is down to the minute, and they sell cute little bento boxes on the platforms
I went to Japan a year and a half ago, and the Shinkansen is so nice. It's a bit expensive (more than a flight would have been I think), but waaaay more leg room than an airplane and you don't have to go to the airport, go through security, taxi to the runway, ... you get the rest. Plus, you get some nice views from the train. The plane you wouldn't get as many (although seeing the clouds/ocean is still nice, just really far below the plane).
I am from India🇮🇳. Japan🇯🇵 is a mother of bullet train🚄 and most trusted high speed train system in whole world. Still 58 years no accident record. It's very big Acchivement for Japan🇯🇵. 🙏🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳
Now I have sudden urge to go to japan
Lemon there’s a famous japanese song called “lemon” by kenshi yonezu. listen to it, lemon
Don't go only for the train as travelling in them is a very ordinary experience. You don't feel the speed while inside.
Wait until the maglev shinkansen construction is finished then go
tourisim in japan is up as well recently. In one year tourism increased by 20%
u won’t regret it
As always, US is at the forefront of technological development!!! .... Wait...
👊➡️💀🐴
Well not at everything
dmitriy40 - In the US, it's more political. The US is a car country, has always been. Its infrastructure is built in a way that encourages people to use the car, even across the coasts. It's unfortunate, but it's not like the US can't build fast trains. They can if they want to. Let's say for the sake of argument, the US doesn't have the technology or the expertise to do that, then they can always lend Japan's help. After all, Japan is US's closest ally. The US helped build Japan after WW-II. So the reasons why you don't see fast trains in the US are more political than anything else.
@@stephaniehale946
I have been living in the US for thr last 26 years, and I am eternally grateful to you for explaining "how things are".
You are assuming things are "political" only in the States, and executing $4BIL infrastructure projects is easy elsewhere, aren't you?
BTW, my original comment was intended as a mild joke...
dmitriy40 - It doesn't matter where in the world you live, you don't understand the US politics. Do you know what does "lobbying" mean? It's a business in itself, unlike any other country in the world. Yes, executing a $4 billion or $400 billion projects are easier elsewhere, because elsewhere Congress is not as divided for the most part. There is a reason why the US is pretty much the only country in the developed world without universal healthcare. Again, lobbying.
Although there are other high speed rail lines in Asia, don’t be fooled, Japan is by far the best. They have the most consistent trains, the fastest trains, and the highest quality. Riding a bullet train, especially in first class, is not much different from being in a private jet. And the view of the country side is beautiful.
Nah, not anymore. You can balance a coin on its side on the Chinese HSR but it will roll off on the Japanese HSR. The Chinese trains are much smoother, providing a better experience. The Chinese trains on the busy routes actually run faster than the Japanese trains too.
Can’t trust anything made in China. Just wait until those trains start flying off the tracks when they break down. China has the worst maintenance mentality in all of Asia. I’ve rode on both Chinese and Japanese bullet trains and agree with OP.
@@chinito77 It's been 8 years since the first high speed line opened in China, keep on waiting if you want.
chinito77 Look at the facts. The Chinese HSR system is safer than Europe's. It has had 1 accident while having more kilometers of tracks than the rest of the world combined. Europe has had about 4 (5 now, new accident in Spain) accidents while having much less kilometers of HSR tracks laid. The Chinese HSR line is about as safe as the American airplane industry. The number of kilometers traveled by the Chinese HSR system is already nearing what the Japanese have accumulated all these decades.
OP's comment is kinda ironic, considering his avatar is Mao Zedong.
People should also know that the plane route between Tokyo-Osaka is one of busiest domestic route in the world as well as Shinkansen route is. Basically, crazy amounts of people are moving in two cities.
sogo and shima were the real hero's here. much respect
I rode the Shikansen from Fukuoka to Kyoto then to Tokyo(stopped twice for sight seeing) and it was one of the best times traveling. The speed and engineering are superb(I love when two trains cross in opposite directions, not sure how they solved that wind problem) but what's great is seeing the Japanese country side on a summer day. Small villas, bridges, and acres of rice paddies can be seen in the distance even at high speed.
And we're out here in Romania travelling at an astonishing 20 km/h.
Lmao, What was that Cycle you were riding on? 😂
Laughed so loud
Wow, i thought 90 km/h was slow.
Bhim Sen Hansda *laughs in Albania at a top speed of 40 km/h*
Its amazing that japan's rail just keeps on expanding since the end of the war. Meanwhile in the philippines, our rail infra went wayy down since before ww2 from more than 100km to lower than 100 km today
I don’t know if anybody heard of this, but Texas has been planning to make a high speed rail line between Houston and Dallas, using the N700 rolling stock from Japan.
And yet majority of Americans opposed that project.
It will take how many years?
mukoue7303 It will never happen, they've been talking about it for years. The reality is that you would get to your destination and not have transportation. No one will ride.
@@theheartoftexas Do cities in Houston and Dallas not have buses? Subway? Taxis? Uber? RentaCar? I thought in every major metropolitan area there would be an abundance of alternative transportation to self-owned cars. Maybe America is 50 years behind nowadays.
Omni Yes, we have alternative transportation, but it's inconvenient and expensive. Buses do not run everywhere, the nearest bus stop to me is 8 miles away and requires you to cross a freeway. No subways. Dallas and Houston have light rail, but the lines are extremely limited. Taxis and Uber are extremely expensive, only doable for a trip or two (realize that these are very large metropolitan areas). Rental cars are the only real option, but again, are expensive. It's far cheaper and far easier to drive. Also, when they have studied the issue of building these high speed trains for most areas of the country, they have found that the train fare would be as much as, if not more than flying (which is faster). So, this idea has always been dismissed.
America: we have the greatest vehicles of all time! look at that constellation!
*japan builds high speed train
America: HA! can't beat us with that "fast trains" of yours our planes will be the image all around the world!
*japan finishes high speed trains and beats america
america:
[surprised pikachu]
today China beats the reste of thé World, Chinese CRRC buffet than Alstom+Simens,
@@Emilechen huh? Japan has all the world records. 600 km/hr world record of the fastest train is Japanese.
you must understand that trains are bad.
1.) they are communist. ussr made trains. that's bad. if they do something, we do opposite.
2.) no freedom. i want to drive to my destination, not use the train and walk 10 feet. >:(
3.) no gaming lights. bruh, trains dont look cool enough. it's lame. i can add disco lights to my car.
You cannot fast travel with enemies nearby.
*_You take a sip from your trusty Vault 13 Canteen_*
I’m surprised at how much quicker and more efficient bullet-trains are vs flying. Big ups to Japan!
I wonder if you would like a 60 hour journey across Siberia from Shanghai to Paris. Unless it is a sleeper, I would opt for the jetliner (hopefully those turbines are powered by fuel cells instead of the brute force heat from the burning kerosene).
@@unf3z4nt The turbine engines of aircraft are always powered by the brute force heat from burning kerosene, with no change in sight. And some people actually enjoy the trip and seeing the countryside as they go.
@@unf3z4nt The Transsiberian is meant to be a leisure trip if you take it for its whole length. Most who take it get on and off on the stations in between.
Meanwhile, in 2018 Canada, we ride the ricketty old Via Rail... 🙄
ro pro your population density is very low
We just have horrible politicians being voted in by ignorant voters. We recently just purchased an expensive diesel train to go from downtown Toronto to the airport. None of our lines are electric yet. And a large subway system expansion that was supposed to be completed within the next 5 years was cancelled by our old crackhead mayor.
Just asking is it better or worse than Amtrak. Because if it's worse than Amtrak then boy do you guys have a problem
Meanwhile, in 2018 U.S., we drive Hummers to the mailbox. 😔
@@drdewott9154 I've never ridden Amtrak, but Via is just barely faster than car speeds (when it doesn't completely stop to let commercial traffic pass), has horrible WiFi and shakes side to side so much that you don't wanna pee standing up in the washroom.
I rode the high speed train in China many times. It went about 180mph (like 305km?), but it felt smoother than highway driving and didn't make much noise at all. Getting to the platform was also about 10x more convenient than any aiport (security, location of station)
Yeah it's smoother than Japan's high speed train.
Here in Spain the entire country is connected with our high speed trains (it reaches the speed you said, 300km) and, boy, it's the best way to travel. So comfy and fast.
do they use german trains?
MrWalker1000 No, it's their own trains. The only German train in China is the Maglev. There's only 1 short Maglev line in China running from the Shanghai Airport to the city.
Not 305 km per hour but 350
Thank you japan from INDIA
Fuck you india from JAPAN
Make your own trains
Mingkun Ng we are
@Abhishek Chakraborty oof
@@abdullah7792 I'm a Japanese and I don't think that Abdullah is a Japanese name?
In the case of Japan, the project was viable because there was enough ridership from Tokyo and Osaka (and Nagoya in-between) to justify the enormous expense of the project. Indeed, the Tokaido Shinkansen line between Tokyo Station and Shin-Osaka Station is the busiest high-speed rail line in the world even now.
@ I disagree. When the original Tokaido Shinkansen line was built, it went *WAY* over budget--and that's with JNR using some of the tunnels that had already been built for an faster rail line planned during World War II. It was only the massive number of riders on the system (3 hours 10 minutes from Tokyo to Osaka one-way in 1965 was a huge improvement over previous means, which immediately attracted riders) that ensured JNR finally making money on the project in the late 1960's, which funded the first major line expansion, the San'yo Shinkansen from Osaka to Fukuoka.
@@Sacto1654 it was still profitable. that is all vinsu was saying
Wow! Brief. Yet, impactful 👏👏👏
If all goes well, Texas could have the very first high-speed railway with a Bullet Train connecting Dallas to Houston sometime between 2021-2024. A 4 hour drive would then turn into an hour and a half train ride away.
Fun fact, the guy who designed the first shinkansen used to design aircraft for the war, he designed the P1Y Ginga.
The Japanese who always plan ahead decided that an advanced economy needed to be able to transport a skilled population quickly and efficiently to and from their jobs and schools and industries.
India is still on 80km/hr
yeah majority is still slow but we do have semi high speed trains
Wow that's fast
They still figuring out how to build a toilet
@Shreyash The Slayer
this is one of the reasons why I hate some indians in general..
they can't even take a joke similar to some american people on the internet
straw barrow ,they are mostly first generation literates and got internet recently only,understand their enthuisasm to express out..!?
Can't wait for the HSR to run here in the states!
Shel You're going to have to
Will not happen in a 1000 years, by then nobody would want to visit the Americas because of how backwards the two continents have become compared to the Old World, Australia and Zealandia.
Their building one in Florida, Nevada, and Texas. Heck the Florida one is already running between Florida and West Palm Beach with an extension to Orlando just beyond the horizon so you don't have to wait long 👍
Wider tracks meant that the track could not be used for freight.
Well hello friend from the yokosuka line in japan
Your thumbnail train is dying
A true measure of a society’s progress is its high speed trains
That's such a cool design!
One bullet train already developing in Mumbai to Ahmadabad Railway line,
Kamalakanta Mohapatra I live in Mumbai and I have been hearing this since last 5 years. I haven't seen any progress, if the project has even started. To me it is still a word of mouth. Don't expect it before 2040.
I like how there's a rouge Odakyu RSE train among the shinkansen models that they used
Man I'm just glad my home country (Denmark) is finally jumping on the band wagon. We have had fairly high speed trains for years, (Heck our "Thunder train" was one of the first high speed diesel train services when it was introduced back in 1935) We're finally now catching up to our neighbors. We've had 2 ICE branches as well as Swedish X2000 trains running in the country for years but both of them used the older non upgraded rail lines and one of the ICE lines even had to board onto a ferry. Nowadays that's changing though. A High speed line is under Construction between the Copenhagen's Central Station and the Province town of Ringsted because of the line between the 2 at the moment being at full capacity, This new stretch of line will be able to have trains running on it at speeds of up towards 250km/h and have trains continue down the current cross country line to the western part of Denmark (though the news trains being ordered by the state railroads can only run 200 km/h). From Ringsted the current line to the German ferry route (Rødby-Puttgarden) is being upgraded to being electric and have trains able to run at 200km/h as well as the replacement of the ferry with an underwater tunnel. From there the trains will continue on a brand new high speed line from Fehmarn to Lübeck where it'll connect to the rest of the German ICE network. So yeah cool stuff.
Thats not high speed. High speed trains are trains going 300km or186mph and actually Denmark doesnt have any HSR just higher speed train that go 200km< but >300km
HSR needs a high-density population to succeed.
Meanwhile in the Netherlands. Dutch Railways spent billions on an own high-speed railway.
They bought way too cheap and unreliable trains. Trains broke down piece by piece.
Fast Thalys trains from Belgium and our own regular (and way slower) Intercity locs are riding the expensive high-speed line now.
:D
You can see one of the first shinkansen engines at the Omiya train museum! If that's the sorta thing that interests you, definitely check it out if you're in Saitama!
Or in Nagoya or Kyoto. Mostly Kyoto since everyone goes to Kyoto
I live this short videos!
India will catch up with Japan on the bullet train in 2022. great friendship between India and japan.
'Catch up' what do you mean by that. The Japanese are building India's Bullet train line between Ahmedabad to Mumbai using money they gave as loans to India. China builts it's own Bullet trains unlike India.
@@nabeelmohammedca Actually, China use the technology from Japan, Germany, Canada and Finland( if my memory is correct) when developing its system
However , in recent years , the country already developed its own system of high speed railway, but the system is a little like that in Japan, as many China's train use parts from Japan
@@alphagopage7869 That's true, what I'm trying to say is that India is building this project on loans provided by Japan. To pay off those loans and be profitable in the future the ticket price would be high, which a lot of Indians can't afford. Business people will choose to travel by air instead of using the bullet train because the ticket prices on both will be similar and an airplane is faster than a bullet train. The business model in Japan won't work here in India because wages of average workers are lower. This project is meant for ordinary people isn't?
@@nabeelmohammedca It seems Indians still have to use railway technology from Japan according to some news
@@alphagopage7869 Majority of Indian trains are low or average speed. The ongoing bullet train project only connects two cities.
The high-speed rail line between Tokyo and Hozaka
HOZAKA
2:08
*Those commenting on the US - In the US, it's more political. The US is a car country, has always been. Its infrastructure is built in a way that encourages people to use the car, even across the coasts. It's unfortunate, but it's not like the US can't build fast trains. They can if they want to. Let's say for the sake of argument, the US doesn't have the technology or the expertise to do that, then they can always lend Japan's help. After all, Japan is US's closest ally. The US helped build Japan after WW-II. So the reasons why you don't see fast trains in the US are more political than anything else.*
*I agree*
Just look at AP1000 nuclear plants in US... After 10 years, still delaying...
The US can't build high speed rail even if it wanted to. Look at the california high speed rail, takes ages to build is hugely over budget and now they are including a lot of non high speed rail in the trajectory. Even though the LA to San Francisco route is perfect for high speed rail, the US doesn't seem to approach this opportunity properly.
William Hale If the USA is a car country, then why are the roads so crappy. We have no roads that even come close to the Autobahn in Germany, and our drivers education is a joke. We give licenses out to nitwits, then wonder why our highway fatalities are so much higher than other nations. Even our currently existing rail systems are a deadly joke. How many accidents has Amtrak had compared to other systems worldwide? This nation is third world, and we don’t have the guts to admit it.
starventure - That's correct. It applies to all kinds of infrastructures - roads, trains, freeways, airports, etc. There is just too much politics into those things nowadays. Also, these things require work by both the federal and the state governments, so that's another issue where it's difficult for them to work together. When it comes to the physical infrastructure, the US is certainly the third world in many ways.
Well done visuals and storyline
More we need more!
Notice:
The Shinkansen’s track gauge is standard gauge.
Meanwhile, the US is still satisfied with crippling traffic.
Speed of a Shinkansen/Bullet Train is 356 MPH. The length of this video is 3:56... 🤩
356 KPH not MPH.
video is 3:55
The maximum speed of a Shinkansen is 320 KPH *AND* the video is 3:55.
Not true. it's 320KM/H.
abhishek roy The 603KPH trains are experimental trains and are not in operation.
Americans be like: "Trains? Isn't that something for the poor? Sounds like communism to me, and communism is baaaaaaad, so trains are bad. " 😂
tell that to the people taking northwest corridor Acela express trains
Not really, it's more of trying to transport people in cattle trailers. The U.S.'s rail network was built primarily for and optimized for our miles long freight trains, which has made it one of the world's best freight distribution networks, but trying to shove higher speed passenger trains onto routes designed for slow, long freights just doesn't really work out that well.
Here in the Netherlands we're wondering ourselves if airlines should be counted as public transit as well. If that's really the case, you Americans are surrounded by public transit. Unless everyone is going to buy pickup private jets of course.
An issue with the continental USA is there are relatively few corridors that can justify the enormous expense of a high-speed rail line. I can only think of three: Boston to Washington, DC, Chicago to Minneapolis-Saint Paul, and Dallas to Houston.
Sacto1654 What about connecting the west and east coast?
Where is that first shot from? Must be somewhere shortly after Shin-Fuji st. towards Tokyo. And shot with super telephoto, to have Fuji so big in a frame.
to be precise, the "wider tracks" were simply using the normal international gauge of 1.435m width. It is simply that the usual Japanese railway network is on a metric gauge.
The usual Japanese railway network gauge is 1,067 mm, which is 3 and a half feet. How is that metric?
America has horrible passenger trains, but our freight trains, we have the best freight system, plus the world's most powerful locomotive. But trains the American passenger train was great, until the about 1960.
And here in Philippines our trains break like after 2 uses...just like a gold sword
LOL, what you use plastic?
IDK.
If those trains in the thumbnail weren’t reprints of the 2001 trainbots then I don’t exist
Japan did a great job on trains.Good for them.really hope there could be a high speed train linking Asia and Europe,from China to Kazakhstan，Russia,Poland,Germany,Belgium,France,eventually get to British,that would be pretty dope.i really wanna give that a try.
just get Russia to upgrade the trans-Siberia railway to specs... you would get that HSR faster ... (it would be more of a higher speed line than high-speed line)
@@PrograError Russia is actually planning on upgrading the Transibirian to a high-speed line.
Right now the freight train from China to London takes a leisurely 18 days .Must be fun .
It would be a great infrastructure and jobs project to start construction for lines from Boston to Miami and Seattle (Vancouver BC even better) to San Diego. it won't ever happen but it would be great.
jbgrooves “it won’t ever happen but it will be great” sums up everything I wish I could see in the US🤦🏻♂️😂
"Up against bureaucratic obstacles and fierce opposition, [Sogo and Shima] drove the project forward."
Definitely on my bucket list 😊
What wasn't mentioned in the video is that Japan's earthquake-resistant engineering design and technology are something of a world of its own, which the Shinkansen makes full use of. If I were a government official in earthquake-prone locations (e.g. West-coast U.S., Indonesia, Philippines, Nepal, New Zealand, Pakistan) considering high-speed rail, then no contest I'd go for Japan's.
Alex Mercer I Because the Chinese do not care about safety and will run their trains as fast as possible in order to make more money from it’s passengers. You should know Chinese way of thinking. As for smooth, geography...of course Japan has more earthquakes than China.
Alex Mercer In terms of speed, the Chinese government owning 100% of the land in China obviates the need for land acquisitions and enables train tracks to be laid in the most efficient, straight-line path. Moreover, eastern and southern China (that is, where most of the high-speed rail routes are concentrated) consist mostly of vast plains in contrast to Japan's mountainous topography. I'm not sure what you mean by "smoothness" but if you mean comfort, then I'll just note that the typical Chinese bullet train experience is characterized by the presence of asshats who think it's fine to sit in your seat until you show up, dirty or faulty washrooms, and passengers yelling into their phones or watching videos with no headphones at loud volumes.
Y O wtf southern China is full of mountains. The plains are in the East to the North. China's trains are smoother as well. You can balance a coin on its side on the Chinese trains without it falling off while it would immediately fall off on the Shinkansen. There are videos all over youtube of those.
@Andrés Iniesta Nah a coin stands on Shinkansen too. Shinkansen "érmepróba" / Shinkansen "coin test" And one thing you need to know is that the alignment between Shinkansen and crh lines. The former is R2500, the latter is R7000~9000, or on some lines it’s even R12000. High speed lines in china are FAR shallower than Shinkansen lines.
Plapla That's the South Korea coin, not the Swedish coin. You need to use the same coin on both trains to do the test. Only then will we know which is more stable. The alignment is part of the journey. A straighter alignment provides the customer with a better experience. These are all part of the plan. A smaller radius is desired for a smoother journey.
Japan is a small country with 40% US population
train could find more customer with high population density when the US could not
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As a regular rider of the bullet train, a faster train system is in the works. It will connect Tokyo to Osaka in about 48 minutes. This I am looking forward to! I love Japanese innovation and it’s far future planning.
We 🙏 respect u japan .
Shinji Sogo looks like Colonel Sanders.
Spain wasn't mentioned :( We have a fairly dense high speed train network (with some poor decisions added in) but it's far better than the German one for example.
Carlos Balaguer Ya pero como todo el mundo piensa que España está como Grecia y por alguna razón que desconozco los youtubers de habla inglesa tienen un tabú alrededor de España. Es una pena que no se nos reconozca algo en lo que somos buenos.
@Filipus Adendum some of them are developed by Talgo (a Spanish company) and Bombardier ;)
@Filipus Adendum you forgot Talgo :)
And yes, the technology in some things is imported from France and Germany, but there are plenty other things designed and developed by spanish companies, bye my friend and hope you enjoy our playas when you visit us.
Could you please describe in what way it is better than the German one? In Germany, even the smallest villages have train connections to the surrounding bigger cities and from there almost always direct trains to any part of Germany. For example, to go from Munich in the south to Bremen in the North, you don't need to change trains at all.
Spain would have the spotlight, if China didn't happen.
Wish my country could have high speed trains
i prefer china CRH and Fuxing Hao. looks a lot better than JR shinkansen trains
doubt. I love me my Hayabusa. And dont forget, the CRH is based on the shinkansen
Currently when I write this at May 11th, 2019, the Shinkansen max speed is 320 km/h on the Tohoku Shinkansen between Utsunomiya and Morioka. JR East planned the max speed 360 km/h by 2020.
I love the thumbnail the train was the same toy that i get from hok ben lol
Why the video thumbnail looks like pens on a paper?
Ladies and Gentlemen Welcome to Hikari Super express bound for Osaka! This for those who have used these trains !
why'd you got the dr yellow with the others in that toy line up? It's not a shinkansen for public ridong
Boi These coming to Texas along with Renfe.
So at 1:50 you are sure that they build 3000 bridges and not 3000
pylons?
Welcome to Indian Railways 🇮🇳
But trains can only be successful when you have a high population density where owning a car is not financially sound. Look at HKG. A parking space could cost as high as a small apartment in the US.
*changed travel in developed countries
This only works between two high density locations that are relatively close to each other. That's why this won't catch on in most of America. Besides their coast lines, their population simply isn't dense enough to support these lines.
I photographed the sunset in France when traveling from Paris to Rotterdam a few weeks ago, it was hard because you were going with 300 km/u, with all kinds of objects (to reduce noise and let the line go pass on a right track, because france has a lot of hills and so on). But it worked and I got the shot I wanted. And damn it was fun to drive the train. Like, I just went to Paris for 2 days, the whole trip costed me 500 euro, 75 euro for the train forth and back, 60 euro for the hotel and the rest was just tickets for the entry of monuments/foods and drinks). It was a bit confusing how to get in the train, which isn't fun when being autistic, but, once in the train the ride, even in second class, was seriously comfortable/silent and like the only noice you hear from the train was when it started to go hard, but when it did, it was more silent then anything can ever be. Like you could sleep for 2 and a half hours without any problems. I did really like the Thalys a lot. And now I wanna try out the Eurostar to Londen. But, yeah first I need to get by the trip to Paris, because being autistic, there were way to much sounds/things that made my brain super tired and still getting to normal state again. One thing I do know, as I am very fat, I will rather use trains then airplanes, also I do not like busses at all. The car is the only thing I use, oke and bicycle, but in the Netherlands you can take them with you so. Besides the train. And for me it was another archievement, because 5 years ago, I didn't even dare to go on public transport at ALL. In Paris that's the only thing I used.
I would love to go to Japan once. Because of 3 reasons: Anime, the Bullet-train and Fireworks. But from Holland to Japan is like the most expensive trip possible. So, saving money as it is...
Japanese reliable stuff.....
Woah people are genuine✌
Thank you for picking up the 🇯🇵Japanese 🚅Bullet train (Shinkansen). I am really proud of 🇯🇵Japan and it is very convenient. I am surprised that 🇺🇸America is not running at all in developed countries.
Japan is a very interesting country and very intelligent people a developed Nation World is nice place
Hope Japan helps the US that's still using locomotive Amtrak.
Not happening, we went to European Siemens instead for a new generation of locomotives to replace the Genesis and AEM-7 units
And high accidents rate. Outdated technology.
Texas Central Railway maybe
Meanwhile in India in 2020, no train can touch 200kmph, no one can imagine the same. And every other train is late. Interiors have started to improve though.
Lol negative always
that ending is such a deadpan cliffhanger XD Make a video on China licensing and building upon foreign highspeed rail tech!
$3.6 billion for a massive high speed line. In the UK we're going to have to spend up to £100 billion on part of our high speed lines
Keep in mind this is $3.6 billion in the 1960’s
@@Kevbot6000 no it was the equivalent to $3.6 billion in the 1960's.
I assume most of this money will be for buying out the land, maybe Japans land ownership structure was different by then.
@@randomnickify For the Shinkansen project, around 60 billion yen was used for land acquisition out of the 380 billion yen total cost. Not a small amount, but not that huge because they had already started purchasing land during the war.
Lol. I used to live in the US, and if you didn't own a car you basically had no means of transport, and riding a train was considered poor. Whereas in Japan if you own a car it means you live in the countryside, and if you don't own a car and live near the station it means you can afford the rent and have easy access to public transport.
Here in the netherlands we have on of the worst railways in the universe. Terribly expensive and they drive 1990s doubledeckers which only go max 130 km/u at peak times. The trains barely get proper cleaning and maintenance. The only thing they do is picking existing trains and give them a make over once in a while.
Agree, those doubledeckers should be replaced with new types of doubledeckers. Or they should go away.
But the new sprinters are pretty nice tho
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The rail prices here in the UK are astronomical, surpassing prices for flights to places thousands of miles away, if we had this high speed rail I could only see the prices going one way... Up. The trains here are always late due to some film flam excuse for a reason, and in some cases they don't even give you a reason at all, the prices have just gone up recently and that's even after the fact that most of them are late or completely cancelled, it's a joke of a service and we should all boycott the trains until it's sorted but that's impossible as so many people rely on it to get to work... And they know this. My girlfriend has her train to work cancelled at least 2 or 3 times a week meaning she has to run to the station (because they let you know right at the last minute) and then has no time for a ticket as she would miss the train then the conductor tries to fine her for not having said ticket, the whole thing is a mess.
You saying older trains were banned is similar to saying older trains were banned from hyperloop infrastructure. Well, duh!. They're not compatible with each other so, one would believe a 'ban' is vital.
Don’t use a non-existent system as an example comparison, it makes no sense. A better example would be banning buses from the metro rail.
Why is Japan and South Korea so ahead of Europe and North America?
progressive, less NIMBY... and politics...
NIMBY?
South Korea's HSR is crap. You mean Japan and China.
In South Korea the Wifi is great!
@@pawo4521 Not In My BackYard
Lessons for India!
Who are you ??.. no body give a damn to you .. india is fastest growing country and it is adopting new technology..
Not suitable to India . What India needed is many fast trains for Mass transport not this costly high speed train. India is a over populated country with vast population under BPL who can't afford or fit in this bullet train
D C ... please get your info right india has many mass transport systems like buses , metros , trains etc .. and yeah only 5.3% of Indian population is poor and India is pulling out close to 100 people per min out of poverty .. India need to progress so it needs High speed rail
Luxurious symbols don't make any place prosperous .
@@rex_schd People such as yourself also existed when computers were introduced in India in the late 1980.
Look at the IT industry it has spurred today.
The same is expected due to introduction of Bullet train & subsequent transfer of technology in the MSME sector.
新幹線のプロトタイプは弾丸列車(BULLET TRAIN)計画として1910年頃から計画されていました。
WW2の影響で当初のプランそのものが消滅しています
Sogou and Shima are not the one who invented Shinkansen!! Tadanao Miki is the inventor of the Shinkansen.He's the one who inventing it after he was fired following the allied occupation in Japan
Shinji-Hikari!
Rail transport is the best. Fast and economical.
I prefer to travel by train long distance which I do travel on Amtrak. I also travel on Amtrak’s Pacific Surfliner when I’m home in he San Diego area from San Diego to Los Angeles & Oxnard,CA alternating my visits between Los Angeles & Oxnard. It beats driving on the I-5/U.S.101 & I-405 parking lots and also beats the bus, beats flying domestically. The only way I’ll fly is Trans Pacific between Los Angeles & Manila on Philippine Airlines, Los Angeles & Honolulu, San Diego & Honolulu on Hawaiian Airlines, Trans Atlantic between Boston & Dublin’s on Aer Lingus Irish Airlines, Between Boston & Oslo on Scandinavian Airlines and between Philadelphia & Rome on Alitalia Airlines.