Bullet train

Riding Japanese commuter trains in rush hour with a 50 liter backpack is quite a challenge, you do take up quite a bit more space than the average person... This morning we did however not have much of a choice since we had to get to the station to catch the bullet train to Kyoto. Even though we thought we fought the crowd pretty well we sill managed to miss our train by 5 minutes. Luckily there was another train a bit later and we got to experience our first ride on a bullet train (shinkansen).

Shinkansen is Japan's high speed railway network. Its first line opened in 1964 and the trains run at a maximum speed of between 240 and 300 km/h.