Shinkansen and Eki ben

This is the Nozomi Shinkansen. A shinkansen pulling up to a station does not sound like an ordinary train that goes gadan-gadan, instead, all you will hear is a high-pitched whine and it just goes slowly and quietly to a stop. Very other-worldly for me.





Inside the Nozomi. It runs at 300 km/h (186 mph); strangely, there are no seatbelts at all! Trains jump off their tracks right? There is one cabin attendant, usually female and she sells drinks and snacks
during the trip. The train goes so fast, you tend to gaze really at the farthest distance you eyes can focus at. Your ears go pop as you speed through a tunnel, since the cabin is pressurized. Windows are double-glazed like in airplanes. When 2 bullet trains pass each other at running speed, you hear a whomp at the same time feel a nudge and a see a blur zip by your window. Whomp, nudge, ZIP! Yes, that was a train.

Eki-ben! (Station bento) Our dinner, on the left a boxed gyudon bento that is self-heating, just pull that string before opening the box then you'd hear a hiss, in a couple of seconds,
you have a nice, steaming beef bowl!
The right one is a conventional bento, ooh loove that big umeboshi! Itadakimasu!