Themes 3 and 4 from the final week of Photography 101 are edge and double. The goal with “edge” was to get a perfectly straight line. Double’s optional idea was to rotate the image for a different perspective. Edge A gift shop in a busy bullet train station was the first place I fell in love… with shinkansen…
Four fun features of travelling by shinkansen (bullet train) were featured in Part 1. This post adds five more fabulous qualities. Reserved or unreserved? If you have a Japan Rail Pass, reserved seats are included but you still have to book them. Some trains, like the JR East Komachi, only have reserved seats. Getting a reserved seat means a…
Several train stations around Japan start with the word “shin”. Hubby told me that shin means new. I thought about my experiences riding the shinkansen (bullet train) and realized that these fastest of trains tend to stop at stations that start with “shin”. This now made sense to be because the shinkansen often run on their own tracks…
Updated May 2014 I met Hitoshi, my hubby, while I was living in Akita. Hitoshi lived in Tokyo. These two cities are far apart. In fact, the shinkansen (bullet train) takes about four hours. Flying takes about the same once you count the bus to the airport and the airport nonsense. I took the night bus…
Updated April 2014 I love taking the shinkansen, “shink” for short or bullet train in Japan. In my first year living in Japan, I took the shinkansen over 20 times. This post is about my favorites features of the shinkansen that I discovered using the super speedy bullet train. Swivelling seats! If you’re in a group in…
