More Videos from Japan: Ever wanted to know where your Sushi comes from? I spy on a Bullet Train Conductor
I’m getting positive feedback from contacts, friends, and family that they like these videos, so here’s the last few. Japan is a very modern and efficient culture. Blip seems to be really showing my videos in high quality, unlike YouTube or Google Video, I’ll stick with them until something better comes along.
Video: Jeremiah spying on the Pilot and Cockpit of a Bullet Train
It gets really loud here towards the front car where the engine is, you can check out the white haired pilot. I walk back four cars to my seat, we just departed Okayama, a suburb so it’s not as populated.
- View my other Bullet Train Video Tour, I show the western and eastern restrooms and seating area.
- Learn more about the Shinkansen (Bullet Train)
- View all my Flickr Bullet Train pictures and Train Stations
Video: Touring Tokyo’s Fish Market ‘Tsukijji’
Warning: Some parts are a bit gross! Ever wanted to know where your sushi may come from? This is one of the largest Fish Markets in the world, every morning fishermen bring in the best catches, they are sold via auction and cut with large two-person sword/saws. They are packaged up and shipped to local restaurants and even globally. It was SO busy everywhere folks were driving crazy circular small transports, I felt like I was on the flight of the Rebel base in Star Wars. So foreign, so busy, so many strange creatures, so many ‘droids’. And yes, that’s my wife imitating the fish’s last pleading words “I don’t want to die, I don’t want to die”!
My other two Japan videos of the automated garage and pachinko are here
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Jeremiah,
I counted at most eight passengers in the first four cars. Do they really run a train virtually empty? Surely that’s no way to run a railroad!
Who pays for these empty trains. Is it state subsidized? Or are there shareholders betting on the next “passenger rail bubble?”
Thanks for sharing your videos and pictures. It was great to piggyback on your shoulders!
Joseph
It gets VERY busy in those trains, When I took the video we were at the end of the line in the Okayama suburbs headed to Tokyo, so therefore it was empty.
The bullet train tickets are VERY expensive, we paid a few hundred for a 3 day unlimited pass.
Guess what? I’m going to be posting some other videos from the train in a few days, you’ll get to see it’s a bit more crowded, stay tuned!
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