Kyoto to Tokyo via Controversial New Shinkansen Route
The Hokuriku Shinkansen line was extended and opened between Tsuruga and Kanazawa Japan in March 2024. I’m taking this line from Kyoto back to Tokyo.
GranClass on Tohoku Shinkansen
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That train was cool.
Nice!!!😮😮😮❤
what a fascinating place Japan is
That was such a nice trip, the seats looked very comfortable
Always a pleasure to watch this channel. Boy, that icecream was sure hard!
I grew up with Dean & Deluca as a high-end deli with the most expensive cup of coffee in NYC …always amazes me to see it has cornered the Western Menu for Shinkansen. And the coffee wasn't that great. But your videos are! Arigato, STJ!
Thank you for another enjoyable video. I have just had my 2 year anniversary of watching your videos. I always enjoying your content, it's relaxing and informative and will help me plan a trip to Japan in the future.
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This video arrived perfectly! Was planning to do the Hokuriku arch for my trip this year.. was gonna go Tokyo – Osaka – Kanazawa then Tokyo via the Hokuriku Shinkansen + Thunderbird didn't know they have changed the route
I love the Thunderbird, sad to see it retiring.
I just did this exact route, including Gran Class yesterday. Came off the shinmoji to Izumiotsu overnight ferry. Yes it is a little annoying to do the change at Tsuruga but you get longer in Gran Class!!! i did not have a Shinkansen ticket, just a limited Express ticket, so at Tsuruga i needed to buy a shinkansen ticket. I did not see the shinkansen/limited express machines near the Shinkansen transfer gates, so instead, exited the entire station to buy my shinkansen ticket. BIG Mistake!! It was quite a walk to and from the main station. I wish i'd seen the machines near the transfer
very italian thing… world is all the same big boat… the richest want always more… why 2 trains??? that cost so much????
It's controversial that there's no shop or restaurant at the station!
Why travel any other class. excellent.
Feels like the interior of the NCC-1701D Enterprise from Star Trek , truly beautiful trains inside and out.
The foot traffic doesn't look that bad, but then again I'm used to London foot traffic so nothing is busy to me anymore.
wow interesting experience
Hello, I'm traveling to Japan a second time so far in October. We're landing in Tokyo and on the very next day we'll travel to Fukuoka. What would be the best possible way to do so? Currently I'm just thinking to take the Shinkansen. Is there anything better or something alternative? 🙂
Why /What is controversial about it?????
Everything looks so clean compared to the U.S.!
Too bad that we have no train (or other travel experience for that matter) that nice within the United States. And if we did, it would end up dirty and crime-ridden in some (but not all) cities.
I enjoy your videos and hope to visit Japan one day.
Japanese "small towns" make Maine's biggest towns look like villages
Always lovely videos. Really appreciate the lack of background music, talk-over or selfie. Classy and understated.
One thing I really appreciate about Japan is that it feels comfortable at every instances. The attention to details and pursuit of beauty makes it possible to craft a tranquil experience for every one, not just tourists.
9:40 that is my favorite drink!! Lol couldnt get enough
Pouring to the brim is never a good idea!
11:24 This sounds so good. I need a 8h version of this immediately
I’m so jealous! Even though I’m only 100 miles from NYC it can take 3 hours to get there on commuter trains. The “high speed” Acela averages about 40 mph in my state. Thank you for sharing your trip with me!🙃
What’s with all that packaging on the food – insane amount of plastic and other resources!
loooks nice
Kyoto to Tokyo
San Francisco to Francisco San
New York to York New
Woah!! I remember learning abt that station when it was being built in my Japanese Class in school!
I would love to see videos about shinkansen that go from Tokyo to Hokkaido. Partly because I plan on doing that myself, and partly because I just enjoy watching these types of videos.
nothing controversial. There is a plan to extend the shinkansen from Kanazawa to Kyoto and now it is on the way of such extension. Meanwhile, they are using the current train up to Tsuruga.
I rode the shin from Tokyo to Hiroshima, Hiroshima to Kyoto and Osaka back to Tokyo and Osaka back to Tokyo easily had the most dumb ass tourists being morons. A group of Americans dressed in sweatpants tried to pretend they didn't know the green car was reserved seats.
it's ony controversial for a few years. the line will be extended to kyoto, so then you'll have direct shinkansens to kanazawa again.
The loss of the Thunderbird to force people onto the Shinkansen is hugely disappointing. I've only taken the Thunderbird all the way to Kanazawa once, last year. The only loss of service worse from my own personal perspective was the discontinuing of the Limited Express Kamome between Fukuoka and Nagasaki.
My wife and I used Thunderbird 10+ times and was our favorite train because of comfort and you lose the crowd.
The seats look very comfortable, but the food other than the dessert didn't look like it was something I would order. The ekiben looked tastier to me. 🙂
It’s the Toyota-train.
I rode it in 2016, but only from Kanazawa to Nagano. Two nights stopped in Toyama in between. The trains had plugs for charging, which I remember was missing in the JR West Sakura and Kodama shinkansen trains
Just think if it wasn't for Godzilla and the United States Japan would never had something like this. Now Japan just needs to get rid of squat toilets.
Sorry I don't have the time to watch the whole video, could anyone that has watched the whole video tell me why it is controversial?
I took this trip from Osaka to Kanazawa March 28th.
Your Thunderbird was delayed by 8 mins im assuming because of fog.
We only had a 12 min transfer so it was 4 mins. There were plenty of staff to directed us and help people who needed assistance and of course they held the Shinkansen for us to arrive.
Very nice trip up to Kanazawa Kanazawa
Are u taking applications for a wife? Asking for a friend🤭😂
Finding YT videos with only the ambient noise and no added audio is becoming increasingly rare these days. Love hearing the sounds of places as well as the views. This was very enjoyable.
Cheers.
Very limited views and very brief time spent looking out of the windows at the scenery going by. This video is all about food and drink rather than the journey. Not too helpful.
Kyoto Station is, to me, mind-boggling. My first visit to Kyoto was in December of 1983 and, due to miscommunication, I spent several hours waiting to meet my girlfriend. I had arrived at Narita the night before and, since my plane arrived late, I missed the last Shinkansen from Tokyo and, instead, rode a sleeper train kakko ecki densha that took 14 hours and I didn’t sleep. So my first hours in Japan are burned in my memory. Back then, Kyoto Station was much smaller and there were no real indoor spaces. I remember being quite chilled by the time we finally connected.
Last October, I returned to Kyoto, this time on a Shinkansen and the size and crowds of people completely surprised me. It had been almost exactly 40 years between visits and I was quite shocked that my memory didn’t match very well with the reality of current-day Kyoto. It was, however, wonderful to be back.
From here, it seems more of an inconvenience than ‘controversial’. Sure, a straight train is better.
GranClass is absolutely luxurious & beautiful 👍👍👍
And what I would do at the overcrowded escalators, go first or go last.
Overall – Beautiful in God’s own country, Japan ~
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