Shinkansen Bullet Train ride in Japan 07/07/07 新幹線

This video was taped on a shinkansen (Japanese highspeed bullet train) ride from Atami to New Osaka on 07/07/2007. Fare was included by the tour company, but it would have cost the equivalent of about US$120 per person for this trip if we were to pay out of our own pocket.

No editing was done. The video is run at real time. Notice how fast the trains pass each others. Bullet trains travel at about 150mph, so the two trains passed at 300mph relatively to each other.


Highlights: (at time marker)
0:00 Just out of a tunnel
0:32 train passing
1:02 tunnel
1:14 another tunnel
2:17 river
4:01 station platform
4:46 another train only 3 min. after the previous one.
4:49 a highway overpass

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• bullettrain
• shinkansen
• Japan
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• ride
• atami
• osaka
• high speed railroad
• 新幹線
• 子彈列車
• 子彈火車
• cplai
• bullet train

[Blink44AirwavesXBL]

how fast were you going? and how far did you go in 5 minutes?

[cplai]

@Blink44AirwavesXBL I honestly cannot recall the speed. It was like 4 years ago. I probably have taken a picture of the speedometer displayed near the exit. Unfortunately, I lost all the pictures from this trip due to a disk crash. (the disk crashed between manual backups and didn't do it frequent enough.)

[jukio02]

$120? is that a fair price?

[cplai]

@jukio02 back in 2007, the exchange rate was US$1 to 110 Japanese Yen. So the trip cost about 12000 Yen. As of today, $1 US only worths ¥81. So the same trip would have cost $148 at today's exchange rate. Besides, the ticket price may have increased after 3 years. I think the price was reasonable because the same 2 hour trip took our tour bus driver 10 hours on mountainous roads.

[nyshortline]

I understand the Japanese Bullet trains are 16 cars long.

[totorofusion]

despite both going 150mph notice how long that first train was lol?

cool vid, can't wait to ride one day

[creamyfilling102]

150 mph? big deal. i'll just mount a railroad truck on the bottom of my gt500 and cruise along our local railroads at the same speed.

[trainmaster500]

not to mention the platforms are extremely long... you gotta try it out one day bro!

[rajnikantsharma]

MAN!!!

[Modeltrainguy]

Excellent! 5 Stars!

[totorofusion]

depends on which one is running, but yeah up to that long

i rode on the Hikari line and each time the train was fairly long, other ones were shorter and had more frequent stops... omg its so fun highly recommend the experience