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Japan's 'bullet trains' reach Hokkaido

 

Japan's famed 'bullet trains,' the super-speed trains that 50 years ago were the world's first, have finally reached the northern island of Hokkaido, via an undersea tunnel.

The new routes, which cut as much as a quarter off times between Tokyo and Hakodate, are expected to bring new traffic, population and development, just as they have to other areas. Other recent expansions, and their hoped-for effects were reported in a blog HERE on TravelGumbo last week. 

For a more detailed view of the Hokkaido expansion from The Telegraph (UK) click HERE.

Photo: Children in Iiyama, Japan celebrate the arrival of a new shinkansen station in their town. Photo by Holly Anna

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