Bullet Train



Japan Rail announced that they'll be shooting a commercial from their soon to be opened bullet train line and thousands of people showed up to celebrate. People are very excited about this new line, it connects southwest Japan to the rest of their extensive train system. Now people living in Kagoshima Chuou can get to Osaka in just under 4 hours.

29 comments:

  1. how come we dont have cool comercials like this in the U.S.!? and when ever people are watching TV and a 3 minute comercial comes on... its for some crapy music like justin bieber!!!

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  2. so I figured why there is a low birth rate going on right now in Japan . . . everyone is gay.

    Otherwise "cute" commercial . ==

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  3. ahaha even the power rangers were there to celebrate!

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  4. under 4 hours...
    is that suppose to be a major improvement?

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  5. @Dr. DaMan, it currently takes ~11 hours... so yea... rather major improvement...

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  6. If only our ICEs in Germany were half as reliable as the Shinkansen...

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  7. If only our intercities in the Netherlands were half as reliable as the ICE...

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  8. Is that Company of thieves playing?

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  9. Hooray, gay pride. <3

    XD

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  10. if only our Metro in D.C. was half as reliable as intercities...

    i'm enjoying this, keep it rolling.

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  11. if only our ICEs were as half as reliable als D.C. Metro... wait what? o.O

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  12. Whats the song to this D: I must know!

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  13. Good for you Japan!

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  14. Shit. It's so touching seeing almost the whole nation celebrate with such joy. I wish it was like that in my country. The things we celebrate here are petty stuff.

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  15. If only we had more than one high-speed rail line in the U.S.

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  16. If only Amtrak was half as reliable as the Shinkansen......

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  17. I wish here in the UK we were as accepting of new rail plans as Japan. We were supposed to have lots of new high speed rail lines connecting up our cities but it's been met with nothing but protest and I don't understand why - it should be as happy and positive as the Japanese find it!

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  18. it's swedish/japanese singer Maia Hirasawa

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58j899VUYpQ

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  19. THIS IS SUPER CUTE! ID WISH TO BE IN JAPAN!!

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  20. You know nothing, that's just a regular day in japan

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  21. For some reason this made me feel very happy...

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  22. too bad part of its gone

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  23. There's nothing WTF about this.

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  24. the wtf here is it made me cry from joy...WTF - I'm gay?

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  25. I wish our country showed that much love and pride and respect towards new things as much as Japan!! other then that this was a sweet commercial! =]

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  26. Here(NW coast of USA)they put in overpriced, trolly-slow rails that run only six blocks, in the middle the busiest streets. Or they run poorly scheduled overpriced trains on freight rails a total of 40 miles with no bicycle train-cars, no parking or reliable buses at either terminal, and think they just made such a huge advancement. For longer trips, Amtrak tickets cost more than airplane tickets and have to yield to every frieght train as the tracks are owned and maintained by the freight companies.

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  27. Here(NW coast of USA)they put in overpriced, trolly-slow rails that run only six blocks, in the middle the busiest streets. Or they run poorly scheduled overpriced trains on freight rails a total of 40 miles with no bicycle train-cars, no parking or reliable buses at either terminal, and think they just made such a huge advancement. For longer trips, Amtrak tickets cost more than airplane tickets and have to yield to every frieght train as the tracks are owned and maintained by the freight companies.

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  28. For the cities now connected by this line it may be a blessing, but the huge stretches of land where it doesn't stop... well, the old people seem to remain in those parts, otherwise they're pretty much deserted

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