Riding the Hello Kitty Bullet Train (Shinkansen) in Japan to visit Hiroshima and Miyajima Island.
Today I’m getting the Hello Kitty Shinkanzen from Shin Osaka station to Hashima in Japan. [Music] [Music] This is a daily service that leaves Shin Osaka station roughly at 22 midday and it heads to the south of the country to Hakata. [Music] So, I bought my ticket online on a Japanese website via the UK. I scan my QR code. It’s let me through the gate. It’s printed out a paper copy for me as well. I’m going to keep that safe with my mobile phone, but I suspect on the exit at Hiroshima, I will have to actually scan the electronic QR code at the gate to get out at the Hiroshima site. [Music] I’m on carriage number six, but I’m just going to go to the front and uh take a look at it. [Music] So, I got some snaps of the uh the front of the train and I I’ll make a short as well, but I’m on carriage number six. Just like in previous Shinkans Ends, the carriages are listed on the platform edge again. At the moment, the cleaners, they’ve just got off the train, so we should be able to get on shortly. [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] What? [Music] [Music] United [Music] 5 So that was something a little bit different. Um the journey from Osaka to Hroshima took just over 2 hours. It wasn’t a nomi like an express train. So it stopped uh more frequently at other stops, but um it was still went relatively fast and it was just something different to do rather than getting the standard train. Um, so Hashima, um, I have to say on first appearance, the station is a lot more quieter than Osaka. That was a really busy terminal. So, I’m hoping my QR code, the digital version that I bought in the UK, is now going to let me out here. So, it’s just a case of walking up to the reader and scanning the QR code. No. Unfortunately, it didn’t work. Let’s see what happens now. Yeah. So, I don’t I don’t know why the the digital QR code didn’t work at that gate, but um hopefully you picked up. If I still had the camera on, the lady just checked my ticket and then waved me through. So, this is Hashima. As always, if you’ve made it to this point in the video, I’m really grateful for your support. So, my hotel informed me that to get to the atomic dome site, you come into this railway station and we’re going to guess almost like a road train they call it or a tram. Um they’ve said from this main station at Hiroshima I need to get either um train or tram number two or six. So here’s the where we’re going to get the tram and you can see one’s coming in now. Number two train number two and SA. Yes. Okay. Only get off that please. Only when you get off. Thank you. Thank you. So, the cap chap just confirmed that the sewer card uh will work and I only have to tap uh when I get off. I think what I’ll do is uh when I get onto the actual tram itself, I’ll just get Google Maps out and as soon as I get close to where I think I need to get off, I I’ll jump off using Google Maps that way. So, this should be uh pretty good. Our first glimpse of uh Hiroshima, too. Oh yeah. Ah, [Music] So, been at this site for about half an hour. The bridge behind me is where the tram um brought me up to it. I got off um once the tram cross the bridge and I’ve just had a walk around this side of the bank. In front of me is the um International Peace Museum. And then if I scroll or turn around here, you can see the river and the dome site. So the flame over there in front of the peace museum, I think the flame is um a promise to keep burning until all nuclear weapons are destroyed. So, there’s the dome site in front of me. And actually, I’m just going to cross the river over this bridge here because tomorrow I’m going to get a ferry out to um an island. I’ll put the details uh over this video now, but I can just show you there’s um that’s where you get the cruise ship. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. Let’s record and go. Subscribe to Traveling Trains. Woohoo. [Music] [Applause] Yeah. [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] As always, if you’ve made it to this point in the video, I’m really grateful for your support. But until next time, take care and I will see you in the next video.
I ride the Hello Kitty Bullet Train from Osaka to Hiroshima, Japan. I arrive in Hiroshima and will guide you to the Atomic Bomb Dome Site and Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park & Museum. I will show you the view from Hiroshima Orizuru Tower and catch a ferry to Miyajima Island to Visit the Itsukushima Shrine (it was low tide) I met Jane and her friends from Australia, they were having an AWESOME holiday! @moochi67 on the gram.
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0:00 Hello Kitty Train Trip to Visit Hiroshima, Japan
01:49 Hello Kitty Bullet Train
03:57 Hello Kitty Plaza (Shop)
05:17 Hello Kitty Bullet Train leaving Hiroshima Station
08:36 Atomic Bomb Dome Site, Hiroshima, Japan
11:17 Ferry to Miyajima
12:02 Itsukushima Shrine
Filmed on a DJI Pocket Gimbal 2. Creator combo.
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