The doors open and a robotic, yet friendly voice greets you over the speakers as you board.
“Welcome to the Shinkansen. This is the Hikari Super Express bound to Shin-Ōsaka.”
Onboard, you stare at your watch to confirm if there’s truth to the timeliness. Sure enough, the doors close, and you pull away at the scheduled time. To the second.
Travel back home has conditioned you to expect music blasting from cell phones. People gabbing on calls.
But there isn’t. And there aren’t.
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Inside this train, all you hear is a soft hum. Your perception of what public transportation can be instantly shifts. From the outside, this machine is just steel, aluminum alloy, and wheels barreling down the track. Metal cutting through the air like a speeding bullet. Yet somehow, it takes on a personality of its own. There’s a life to the train, and of course the lives and stories within.
This mechanical marvel reflects the engineering prowess and infrastructure of Japan, but also serves as a window into its people. The decency, respect, attention to detail, and insistence on quality that each person shows towards something that, ultimately, belongs to all of them.
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