ช่วงแรกมีการเอาเครื่องรถบัสมาใส่ด้วยนะครับ เหยียบคันเร่งเหมือนรถยนต์เลย _________________ "You are star I am darkness Our love brighter than the sun .."
TOKYO The restored Tokyo Station building opened on Monday morning after a five-year restoration project.
Originally constructed in 1914 in distinctive European-style red brick and designed by architect Kingo Tatsuno, the iconic Tokyo Station building includes new commercial facilities such as the high-end Daimaru Department Store and the Tokyo Station Hotel, which opens on Wednesday.
Tokyo Station was damaged in the Great Kanto Earthquake in 1923, but remained standing. However, the building was later burned and gutted in 1945 firebombings. Postwar reconstruction altered the terminals picturesque silhouette, resulting in the removal of the third floor and the replacement of the stations original ornate cupolas with more octagonal domes, modeled on the Pantheon in Rome.
In 2006, a reconstruction project began that was designed to restore the Tokyo Station Marunouchi Building to its original 1914 charm and splendor.
According to East Japan Railway Co (JR East), Tokyo Station attracts over 1.1 million passengers every day. Tokyo Station attracts over 1.1 million passengers every day. As the hub of the financial district of Marunouchi, east of the Imperial Palace, 4,000 businesses representing 10% of the Tokyo Stock Exchange are based around the station, including 17 Fortune Global 500 firms (as of 2011).
Since 2000, Tokyo Station has become a fast-developing commercial center, with hundreds of new shops and restaurants opening up, and the brand new Mitsubishi Ichigokan Art Museum has hosted exhibitions since 2009.
East Japan Railway Co. has presented on Thursday a new bullet train model, with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour.
The new E6 series train is called the Super Komachi. It was presented at a rail yard in Rifu, in Miyagi Prefecture, according to Kyodo.
The Super Komachi will inaugurate the Tokyo-Akita service next March. Thanks to the higher top speed of 300 km/h, travelers will only need three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service to get from one city to the other.
This is five minutes shorter than what the current E3 series Komachi can achieve, with a top speed of 275 kilometers per hour.
East Japan Railway intends to increase the top speed of the Super Komachi train to 320 km/h by the end of fiscal year 2013.
East Japan Railway Co. has presented on Thursday a new bullet train model, with a top speed of 300 kilometers per hour.
The new E6 series train is called the Super Komachi. It was presented at a rail yard in Rifu, in Miyagi Prefecture, according to Kyodo.
The Super Komachi will inaugurate the Tokyo-Akita service next March. Thanks to the higher top speed of 300 km/h, travelers will only need three hours and 45 minutes on the fastest service to get from one city to the other.
This is five minutes shorter than what the current E3 series Komachi can achieve, with a top speed of 275 kilometers per hour.
East Japan Railway intends to increase the top speed of the Super Komachi train to 320 km/h by the end of fiscal year 2013.
The first of a new generation of high-speed, magnetic levitation trains has been unveiled in Japan, designed to operate at speeds of more than 310mph.
The worlds first commercially used maglev train in Shanghai Photo: AP
The front car of the Series L0 maglev measures nearly 92 feet long of which 49 feet forms an aerodynamic nose section and is fitted with 24 seats. A full 16-carriage train will be able to carry 1,000 passengers.
Designed by Central Japan Railway Co. (JR Tokai), the state-of-the-art trains are scheduled to go into use in 2027 and link Shinagawa Station, in central Tokyo, with Nagoya.
At present, it takes 90 minutes for a conventional "shinkansen" bullet train to complete the journey between the two stations, but the new technology will cut the trip to 40 minutes.
The vehicle has no wheels doing away with friction and, hence, providing a smoother and quieter ride at a faster speed and is propelled along a track through electromagnetic pull.
JR Tokai has announced plans to more than double the length of the track at its Tsuru development facility to 26 miles and conduct further tests.
"Through the test runs, we will make final checks to ensure that commercial services are comfortable," Yasukazu Endo, the head of the development centre, told local media.
The aim is to extend the line to Osaka by 2045 and the cost of the new lines has been put at Y8.44 trillion (£64 billion).
A panel under Japan's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism is examining the route proposed for the new line by JR Tokai. The plan is for a track that runs through the mountain chain known as the Southern Alps to the northwest of Mount Fuji.
A prototype of the maglev train on a test track in Tsuru, west of Tokyo in 2003 (AP)
Japan will be the first nation to build a large-scale maglev route and hopes to be able to export the technology once it has been perfected.
Japan is famously the developer of the bullet train system which can trace its genesis as far back as 1964 but is still regarded as one of the best high-speed mass transit systems in the world but developers want to get in ahead of the competition for the next generation of trains.
JR Tokai points out that bullet train technology will be 60 years old by 2025, while maglev technology is less polluting than flights that presently link the cities.
At present, a maglev train operates in Shanghai.
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