Japan launches first overnight Shinkansen bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka this summer
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Yes please I would love to turn a 3 hour journey into a 9 hour psychological prison
I thought that was a typo, but
from Yomiuri. That does not sound fun. I mean, I can nap on the shinkansen most of the time, but I don't think I could sleep through the night like that.
They should bring back more sleeper trains instead.
Even cross-border sleeper trains where everyone gets out with their bags, goes through customs, and back on the train aren't as bad since everything goes back to sleep protocol after the crossing. Lights on and people bording while the train doesn't even have the gentle motion and noise to help you sleep sounds literally worse than a bus. These aren't even beds, you're sleeping in a passenger seat.
Six hours stationary during normal peak sleep hours, with the lights on, in a commuter coach. So the trip averages under 80kph?
I don’t think you understand the assignment; not even a little bit.
Japan used to run really nice, cheap non-bullet night trains, wtf happened?
Largely disappeared after the single-decker blue-coloured sleeper coaches from the 70s were withdrawn around 2015.
Everything I know about Shinkansen I learned from Jet Lag and that is that Shinkansen are amazing.
Its fine. Its more expensive than Korea or China, but the seats are a little nicer than in China, but some of the chinese bullet trains have dining cars.
I prefer regular speed sleeper trains.