Many have heard of the shinkansen Japanese superfast train. Actually not really have a supersonic speed. The most I was I reach speeds of 285 km / h (some say faster trains ..) It's like one of our high-speed train. The "small" difference is that we have the AV trains go at a normal speed most of the time and speed on 300km / h in small sections, but the Japanese trains travel almost all the way those crazy speed.
But the real reason why a train Tokyo-Kyoto it takes is just because of short stops at the station. Few minutes. How do they do? well on the pavement there are signs the various carriages and the train stops right at the car where a person has a place reserved.
So if my ticket is the seventh place in the carriage 10, I try to land where the sign is written 10 and wait there, in a neat line that the train stops and the doors open. And I assure you that stops right there! In this way
just 2 minutes to pick up all (of course everyone is expecting that people will fall, and no one tries to come up with arrogance). And the trains are punctually.
Once a girl has booked a trip with one minute of coincidence between the two trains! fiction eh?
other beautiful things of shinkansen trains :
- cleaning. are very clean, you could eat on the floor! I have personally seen the girls cleaners wait for the train to the track, come in, clean the car, turn the seats (in trains in Japan because people travel more in the direction of the train!) and get in 1 minute exactly.
- convenience: the seats recline almost horizontally .. you make those you sleep!
- silence: no one speaks in a loud voice, and when you get near a train station a sweet jingle Eastern warns that we are coming into the station. so those who have fallen asleep are woken up gently ..
stations and trains in general have written in Japanese and English in turn. One ball is stations must present ticket (in our case, the Japan Rail Pass) every time I go in and out of the station. But in this way can not 'enter into any station that does not have to travel.
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