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Get Transported Into A Sci-Fi Movie with the Nagano Shinkansen
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by JAPAN Foward
Photo by Masamichi Kirihara | © JAPAN Forward
Just before dawn, a sight which resembles a sci-fi movie unfolded before our eyes. With their red headlights waiting to pull out of the station, the bullet trains of the Hokuriku Shinkansen linking Tokyo to Nagano are all lined up. They make for a stunning view.
A train conductor grabs his bag and briskly walks in the direction of his train. In this space-like environment, one can almost imagine the train conductor becoming the astronaut of these spaceship-like vehicles.
It’s a scene which manages to grab the imagination. As images of space race through my mind, I hit the shutter button and take a picture.
Photo by Masamichi Kirihara | © JAPAN Forward
There are four types of Hokuriku Shinkansen, also popularly called Nagano Shinkansen. They sport names such as Kagayaki, meaning bright and shiny, Asama, Hakutaka and Turugi.
Photo by Masamichi Kirihara | © JAPAN Forward
At the Shinkansen train center in Nagano City, the trains are lined up in a perfectly scattered manner between the late evening and the early morning hours. The trains on this route differ from the Tokaido Shinkansen, which has a wide variety of models. Instead, the Hokuriku Shinkansen has just the E7 model (used by JR East Japan) and the W7 (used by JR West Japan), and therefore the aesthetics are all similar.
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Get Transported Into A Sci-Fi Movie with the Nagano Shinkansen