Fifty years ago on Wednesday two Shinkansen bullet trains completed their first journeys, kickstarting a high-speed rail network that would transform JapanAt 10am on 1 October 1964, with less than a week and a half to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the two inaugural Hikari Super Express Shinkansen, or bullet trains, arrived at their destinations, Tokyo and Osaka.
How The Shinkansen Bullet Train Made Tokyo Into The Monster It Is Today
Philip Brasor and Masako Tsubuku, The Guardian
Tue, 09/30/2014 - 5:48am
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