even myself as grown up adult i will still ride that and buy many souvenirs of that mascot. i wonder after these years the train and souvenirs still existed?
I keep looking for this videos after so long. So its been 6 years already. I wished you continue making this videos because Japanese culture is very interesting and it shows the different regions’ specialty product.
I do not know if you will see this, but I very much miss new videos from you. I have thoroughly enjoyed your channel for many years and continue to revisit videos from time to time because I like them so much. Arigato gozaimasu!
This level of speed that Shinkansen runs is needed to make a day trip to Hiroshima from Osaka a comfortable journey as Hiroshima is about 300km away from Osaka ....... Before COVID-19 hits our planet, in December 2019, I made a day trip to Hiroshima and Miyajima from Osaka, and I took one of these 8-car N700 series (as Mizuho) on my way to Hiroshima, and returned to Osaka on a 16-car N700A (newer "big-A" train) (as Nozomi that the same train also continued beyond Shin-Osaka to Kyoto, Nagoya, and Greater Tokyo along Tokaido Shinkansen). Both trains that I took stopped only at Shin-Kobe and Okayama along the way, took perfect 1 hour 20 minutes to cover 305.8km between Shin-Osaka and Hiroshima stations, and ran at mostly close to 300 km/h almost all the time. For foreign tourists, there is a deal for this route called "Kansai-Hiroshima area pass", which the pass itself is already cheaper than the regular roundtrip Osaka-Hiroshima Shinkansen tickets (doing only a day trip to Hiroshima from Osaka already pays off the pass' price), and also covers unreserved seats on all Shinkansen trains between Shin-Osaka and Hiroshima including on Nozomi and Mizuho that nationwide pass does not cover.
