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'Not too much time for painting in recent years... I have a portrait of my youngest daughter on the go - and I will definitely finish it one day. (I started it when she was 16. She is now 19 - so I will have to finish it while she is, technically at least, still a teenager!) Photography... Well, this little blog of mine is also supposed to be about some of my attempts at photography, so here are a few snaps I took of the Shinkansen, on a recent (work-related) trip to Japan. Welcome, to the Shin-Kan-Sen!! (You have to pause for a very brief moment after "Welcome" - and say it with pride!!) The photos I posted on Facebook created quite a few comments and I have reproduced some of these below: Vic Rolfe I was talking about the Shinkansen to a friend in Kokura. He said he couldn't understand what was so special about the Shinkansen! "It's just a train, right?" Just a train??!!!! Well... I suppose - for Japan, yes!! Luis Reyes Ordinary train lng sa kanila FB Friend:" Beautiful, wish we had those here in Australia. " Vic Rolfe Ideal country for it... Japan has spent a stupendous amount of money over the years building that network. At least, you wouldn't need too many tunnels, for a start off! Vic Rolfe City center to city center, all over Japan. Every station on the Shinkansen network is surrounded by hotels, so you just get off the train and walk for two minutes to your hotel. In Japan, unless you are going from one end of the country to the other, it is actually quicker than flying, by the time you get stuck in a traffic jam just getting to the airport. Then you have to check in and get through security. Luis Reyes Ganda ng train Vic Rolfe These things don't spend all day in the station, either. They arrive on time and they have to leave on time - exactly to the second. Hence the announcement as you slow down on the approach to Hakata (Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, Japan) "If you are planning to get off at the next station, then you need to get all your stuff ready NOW and start making your way towards the doors.." (or words to that effect!!) I am not sure how long they stop for - but it can't be very long! That's for sure... 1 minute? 2 minutes max!! -
Smooth, sleek - and fast!! East-bound high speed train on the Shinkansen
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Another awesome train at Kokura Station. (I used to be a train-spotter, you know? Does it show?!!) ? ? ? Shinkansen 新幹線 (pronounced: Shin-Kan-Sen) refers to the rail system, not the trains that run on it! 新幹線 translates, word-for-word as "New trunk line" - in other words, it's a dedicated high speed rail network. When I was in school, we used to call the trains that ran on the Shinkansen, "Bullet Trains" (Some people still do!) Here's an East-bound or "Up" train at Kokura Station in Kita Kyushu - on a very brief stop before hurtling off towards Tokyo. -
Super Train!! N-700 Shinkansen "Bullet Train" at Hakata Station
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JR 500 Shinkansen - Close-up of the sharp end!!
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博多新幹線駅 Photo taken at Hakata Shinkansen Station in Northern Kyushu, Japan -
Platform scene at Hakata Shinkansen Station
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新幹線の N-700 は速さが十分です - (The N-700 Shinkansen train is travelling at full speed)
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...or something like that!! Something or other whizzing past the window whilst traveling at high speed on the Shinkansen between Kokura and Hakata. Don't ask me what it was - I don't know!! (We were going too fast!!! ...Bracing wires for the gantries that support the overhead power cables, at a guess!!) -
Northern Kyushu countryside whizzing by on the Shinkansen
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新幹線の窓口から外え見る。新幹線の速さが十分に一杯 -
Northern Kyushu countryside viewed from the Shinkansen whilst travelling at speed
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Looking out of the window whilst traveling at "full chat", somewhere between Kokura and Hakata on the Shinkansen -
新幹線の窓口から外え見る。美しの景色です (Looking out of the window on the Shinkansen)
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Beautiful Japanese countryside, viewed from the window of a train on the Shinkansen ("New Trunk Line"), travelling at speed between Kokura and Hakata. -
Wizzing along in the Shinkansen - at 300km/h!
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View from the window when the Shinkansen winds up to full seed!! I have no idea what this was!!! ??? ?? -
"We will be making a very brief stop at Hakata"
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Lot's of people getting off here and the Shinkansen trains run on time... To the second - unless there is an emergency! So you need to have all your stuff together and be ready, waiting by the doors to get off as soon as the train pulls into the station. -
A crowded Hakata Shinkansen station - 博多新幹線駅
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Lots of people getting off the "Bullet" train at Hakata -
Inside a train on the Shinkansan - comfortable seats and plenty of space
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This beats flying any day! A lot more leg room - and a better sensation of speed. There's actually quite a lot of people in this carriage but the Japanese are not noted for being particularly tall - which is why you can only see half of them!! -
Passing Nishi Kokura JR station en-route to Hakata
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Rapidly acclerating out of Kokura, you can feel the G-force pushing you back in your seat! -
View from the Shinkansen - Crossing the Murasaki River at Nishi-Kokura
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Just outside Kokura - rapidly picking up speed as we head towards Hakata on the Shinkansen -
Kokura Shinkansen Station from a 10th floor room in the Station Hotel
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A room with a view! -
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The Shinkansen is Japan's high-speed rail network. The trains that run on the network, ("Bullet Trains") in the West, are smooth, slick, quiet - and very fast! They run in the region of 300km/h. Running from city center to city center all over Japan - (and without the need to check-in one hour before departure!) - they can make getting to where you actually need to be quicker than flying, if you are going anything less than from one end of the country to the other! -
Another so-called "Bullet Train" on the Shinkansen at Kokura
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Hakata-bound train making a very brief stop at Kokura, in Kita Kyushu.
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