We Tried Japan’s Famous Train With No Reserved Seats! (Shinkansen Bullet Train)

We Tried Japan’s Famous Train With No Reserved Seats! (Shinkansen Bullet Train)

japan has one of the most advanced railway systems in the world the crowning jewel of that is the Shinkinson not only is it fast safe and very famous but with an average delay rate of 1 minute per year it is incredibly punctual
checking his watch he’s checked it like five times already
today we are catching the Shinken train from Hiroshima to Kyoto and to save $30 we are in unconfirmed seats meaning it might get interesting either way we need to get to the station because our very punctual train leaves in 40 minutes [Music] couldn’t help ourselves we have become obsessed with laws the effort I put into that the sound that came out of my body this journey should take exactly 1 hour and 40 minutes during that time we will be flying at over 300 km per hour traveling a distance of 225 miles saving us a 6-hour bus ride if you’re new here we’re Jordan and Emily an Australian couple on a mission to visit 100 countries and today we’re in country 52 Japan
54 54 we’ve been moving really quick so you can’t blame her for that so we ended up paying about $110 Australian dollars per person for these tickets and we ended up getting them online
we were this close to booking a JR regional pass that covers Hiroshima and Osaka but at $175 it just wasn’t worth it for us if we did Hashima as a day trip from Kyoto a,000% that would have been the cheaper option
yeah almost necessary yeah
but instead we got the cheapest ticket possible which means unassigned seating so I’m glad we’re first in line
me too fingers crossed i love that it tells you which cars are unreserved it also has so much signage that you know that you’re standing at car number one you also know where you are in line because it’s like tells you where to stand japan is just so organized i love it [Music] i’m so excited here we go
i thought these could be good seats because there was room for our bags turns out we have some time while we’re here at the Hashima station so I thought I’d give you a quick seat tour while there’s hardly anyone in here first of all it seems like there’s a toilet on every second carriage i’m fascinated to see what they’re like but I might check them out a bit later genuinely the best public toilet I think I’ve ever been in we opted for these seats D and E because there’s plenty of space for our rolly bags behind us also this is incredibly spacious plus we can recline and no one’s going to be mad at us wo that’s quite the reclined other than that it’s the same as most train seats it’s quite comfy we have a little tray table a hook a net and a coat hook plus we actually have a window this time if you’ve been following along you know that we have a pretty average track record with whether or not we have windows on planes trains automobiles so it’s really nice that we have one also has the classic sun shade plus plenty of storage above your head for all of your bags so this whole space is just for our legs it’s a party down here
so coordinated there’s a power There’s Wi-Fi there’s a power outlet somewhere 10 out of 10 wo this might be the new number one transport toilet I’ve ever been in i honestly can’t think of one to compare and I’m not surprised because we are in Japan it is a westernstyle toilet that you do not have to touch to open the lid there is a button to do that for you so no gross public toilet hands of course there is a bedet it’s also a warmed seat there’s toilet paper a seat cleaner a nappy change spot in case you’re traveling with a baby and a trash bin plus there’s a sink in here and another sink out in the out in the corridor today’s sponsor is Get Your Guide it’s price that it M
is
you can justify the price with the effort in every realm
i can’t believe how clean it is you could eat off of these floors
it’s frustrating because the benefit is that it’s so fast but that’s also a negative
spend less time on it
cuz you’re spending less time on it probably too
we should be going [Music] i would say
on the nose
3 seconds after it hit 12:03 and we’re going so this must be one of the late ones [Music] we’ve got to be quiet because there’s hardly anyone on here and there is no one talking we’re going this is so good i’m so relaxed already if you’re a regular viewer of the channel you might think it’s a bit weird that we’re leaving Hiroshima without having any videos from there and we can explain
i’ve been sick
everyone’s been really really sick we have been moving a lot faster this kind of back end of this travel stint and it’s wearing us down plus we only had one day in Hiroshima and it may have been the worst day of all
so we did go out and walk around but I had like vertigo like I was dizzy standing up so I just could barely function as a human let alone try and pull it together to give you guys facts about somewhere so important
so instead we spent the day walking around just taking in what we could and to be honest you only really need half a day in Hashima now on the way to Kyoto not only are we on a Shinkazen but we are on a Super Express bullet train so the fastest of all fast options in Japan it’s the Nomi line and it connects Tokyo all the way down to Fukoka I believe 283 that’s crazy we’ve seen a bunch of these videos in preparation for this trip and a lot of people get like these lunch snack boxes into box into boxes we were tempted by that but the price was a little bit more than we wanted to pay and it kind of added an extra element before we got on the train so plus we have fallen in love with egg salad sandwiches from Lorson’s they don’t have crusts on them i’m not an egg salad sandwich kind of gal but I love these i do feel bad about the smell actually we didn’t think about that
they don’t smell cuz they’re so cold don’t look better it’s a fact also we’re supposed to wait until there’s light because it makes for a better video but there are so many tunnels and we are traveling so fast that there’s just no way so some of this will be filmed in darkness so when you go to book the Shinkasen train there are going to be three options for seating there’s going to be what we did which is the cheapest option standard class unreserved first in best dress that’s in a 32 configuration with the pretty comfy seats that we’ve already been through the next option up is technically the same class but you can reserve your seats so you can go in and pick exactly where you want to sit and have that confirmed before you get here to be honest if you’re on this train and it’s a midday train during the week you can probably just come and and walk on cuz there’s no one here the next class up from that um we always call like first class or business class here it’s green class they have a 22 configuration i’m pretty sure the seats are a little bit wider a bit more plushy um I was going to say probably fancier toilets but I don’t know if you can get fancier toilets but they do cost quite a bit more than this class i think for an hour and a halfish journey this class is honestly all you need unless there’s some sort of special for the same price then you can upgrade but probably not worth it [Music] and returning city this is the Mazami Super Express bound we will be stopping at Himei Shin Osaka Kyoto Nagagoya Shin Yokohama and Shinagar stations we have said time and time again how much we love train travel just because it’s such a good way to get from A to B and you get to see the country that you’re traveling in plus here in Japan I feel like getting a bullet train is an experience like it’s a bucket list moment for Japan to do this
don’t you reckon
yeah we love trains because it’s usually cheaper that’s not the case with this one if you don’t want to do the experience of being on a bullet train in Japan and you just want to get somewhere and you can book early enough flights are going to be considerably cheaper
for example I think our flights from Tokyo to Rashima were like $30 each
yeah something like that yeah it was crazy cheap but this train is a lot more they also have an attendant that walks past after every stop and when he gets to the end of the carriage he turns around and bows [Music] so most people think Shinkansen refers to the train but it actually translates to new trunk rail or new trunk way and it refers to the track itself and that is your fun fact if you look at a map of Japan you can see the tracks running up and all over the country kind of like branching out like a tree trunk emil is really not feeling well she gets a bit motion sickness too and she’s not fully recovered so now she looks like this then please be ready to get off [Music] and just like that we’ve made it to Kyoto
12 is
I think we’re going to check into our hotel and then probably get some food dropped off our bags now we’re trying to get a bite to eat thank you this place seems super authentic we’re the only tourists in here truthfully we only picked this place because it was around the corner from where we’re staying and it was currently open but it looks really good so we’ve been told and we’ve been trying to get okonami yaki pretty much since we got to Japan but it seems like everywhere that sells it with whatever region we’re in doesn’t open until later than we wanted to eat so we will get it before we leave but today is not that day
don Brew is just like a rice with something on top
i love rice with something on top
we’re just going to eat this but we’ll see you tomorrow as we explore
so these tickets cost us about $110 Australian i was like I’m making a face
why
cuz I’m sick [Music]

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