How the Shinkansen bullet train made Tokyo into the monster it is today
At 10am on 1 October 1964, with less than a week and a half to go before the start of the Tokyo Olympic Games, the two inaugural Hikari Super Express Shinkansen, or “bullet trains,” arrived at their destinations, Tokyo and Osaka. They were precisely on time.

October 3, 2014 at 06:29AM
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