Tuesday, January 31, 2006

Go west

I was born in Kochi, south west of Japan. Sometimes I visit my grandmother there. This time I took an overnight sleeper train from Tokyo.


The most economical way is to take the overnight bus. The overnight bus in Japan usually is quite comfirtable. But to my surprise, my mother had decided to come with me which I did not know.

A young and good looking man like me (who said that?) would quite be ok with the bus journey, but probably it is too hard for my mother. So, I decided to take a sleeper train.

Sleeper train in Japan used to be called "blue train".

(yes very blue)
But the one we took was the new generation of the sleeper.
When a beautifully colored 14coaches overnight train "Sunrise Express" appeared at the platform number 9 in Tokyo station, I was quite excited.


Well, this can not be called "blue train" anymore, can it?

A 900 kilometre journey was about to start...

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Blue train ..Pink train..Sunrise Express..sounds great.
In india we only have Indian railways..probably the 2nd largest network...
From Delhi to Calcutta (my home town) it's about 1550KM and it takes 19Hours in an express train...
How much time you need to travel 900KM by train in Japan??

Hidekis said...

It's about 11hours to travel 900km in Japan (except bullet train). 19hours for 1550km sounds quite fast enough, I think.