Shinkansen

Sunday February 26th:

On Sunday, Yujo and and I and Daichi made a trip to Tokyo to see some friends. Normally this is an fairly expensive trip at about 130.00 US dollars a way, or 260.00 round trip. Lucky Japan has a nice package for foreigners wishig to travel in the way of the JR Rail Pass. People can by these passes in 7,14, and 21 day varieties. We choose the 7 day pass as it was the cheapest of all three at 260.00. This pass allows the holder to ride any JR Rail line for free, including the Shinkansen.

The ride was great! I have to say that the seating was a little cramped on the ride to and from Tokyo, but I really don`t want to give a bad impression that covers all of the Shinkansen trains as we have ridden the Rail Star 700 later in the week and was very roomy.

For beening one of the fastest trains on the planet, it really give the rider the impression that we were going about 150mph. I have to say that the light poles were a blur and you could tell that we were really moving as houses moved pretty fast further up on the horizon.

We did get lucky and see Mont Fuji as it happened to not be covered in clouds. I did take quite a few rolls of film on the trip to Tokoy and if they turn out, hopefully I got some great Fuji shots as well.