Hayabusa, The Latest Bullet Train In Japan Named as Falcon (Video)

Japan’s latest bullet train, the thin-nosed Hayabusa or Falcon, made its 300 kilometer per hour, which is186 mph, boasting a luxury carriage modeled on airline business class, debuted this month (before that Tsunami!)

Japan has built up a network of cutting-edge Shinkansen train lines since the 1960s that criss-cross the island nation and now hopes to sell the infrastructure technology abroad, including to the United States.

The latest ultra-fast tech-marvel will make two trips a day from Tokyo to Aomori, a scenic rural backwater on the northern tip of the main Honshu island that has until now been off Japan’s bullet train map. It will also make one more trip a day to Sendai, located between Tokyo and Aomori.

The green-and-silver E5 series Hayabusa travels at up to 300 kilometers per hour to make the 675 kilometer trip to Aomori in three hours and 10 minutes. From next year, it will push its top speed to 320 kilometers per hour to become Japan’s fastest train.

To promote the service, the train company has also heavily advertised Aomori as a tourist destination, praising its landscape, seafood and winter snow. Japan’s ultra-fast, frequent and punctual bullet trains have made them the preferred choice for many travelers, rather than flying or road travel, ever since the first Shinkansen was launched in time for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics.

Japan has also been developing a magnetic levitation or maglev train that, its operator says, reached a world record speed of 581 kilometers per hour in 2003 on a test track near Mount Fuji in Tsuru, west of Tokyo.
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