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The bullet train
"Shinkansen" is the term for Japan's high-speed railway line. That line runs through all of Japan and is traveled by so-called "bullet trains." In all the years that I have been visiting Japan, I have never had to take a trip aboard a Shinkansen train. Recently, to join a friend who lives in Tokyo, the opportunity finally and naturally materialized, and I realized how much expectation I had for this mythical train. It is the first train in the world to realize true commercial high speed. While l...