Gratianus

Shinkansen means "new main line." The trains are also known in English as "bullet train". The tracks are very straight, and the trains go up to 300 km/h. There were, unfortunately, no announcements of the speed on the trains I took, so I do not know how fast we travelled. We got from Tokyo to Niigata in quite exactly 2 hours, and the ride was very comfortable in cars with two levels.