[AKITA SHINKANSEN "KOMACHI"] Heavy snow trip - Amazing experience on the Shinkansen  

Wow! Excellent job job catching the snow that day on the Komachi train. Excellent video.

Great trip, even though it's heavy snow, the train is still operating. This is one of my favourite Shinkansen model, beside E5, E4 Max, and 500 Series. I forgot where this train changing it's train gauge, but E3 can changing it automatically.

Why is it that Japan's bullet trains (SHINKANSEN) have been able to run for almost 60 years without derailment and without passenger casualties, even after major earthquakes? And why is it possible for high-speed Shinkansen trains to operate safely in the snow without interruption, despite the fact that Japan is one of the world's snowiest winter regions? This is possible because the Shinkansen makes use of Japan's abundant water resources, and all the mechanisms are designed from the manufacturing stage with the occurrence of natural disasters in mind. The Shinkansen is not designed for high-speed operation alone. Therefore, even if one were to copy and imitate in form only the mechanism of the Japanese Shinkansen, which can run even in snow, it would not be able to operate stably in the heavy snowfalls. The reason for this is that Japan, an island nation, and China, a continent, have completely different topographies and weather conditions, but there is no consideration or improvement for these differences. It is not surprising that simply duplicating a mechanism that fundamentally overlooks these geopolitical and climatic differences will not work. This is because the environmental requirements and problems to be solved are different from those in Japan. Snow removal methods invented in Japan can only be used in the Japanese environment. Because Japan is a geopolitically volcanic island, it has a natural environment with an abundance of clear water that gushes out almost for free. The snow removal system was conceived and designed based on this abundance of water. In the first place, on an arid continent where water resources are scarce, this method cannot be used and will not work from the start. The only way to deal with this is to come up with a different method suited to the continental environment from scratch. Nevertheless, if this point is ignored and the system is simply copied from Japanese mechanisms, Japanese snow removal methods and mechanisms for high-speed rail in a continental environment will be wasteful, costly, and unprofitable. We must not forget that Japan has an idiom that warns against wasteful spending, "use it like hot or cold water," and that everyone uses this phrase as a matter of course in their daily lives. To understand the feeling and common sense of this idiom, you must live in the special environment of Japan yourself to realize it. In other words, Japanese technology has been developed and perfected by using wisdom and making improvements upon improvements to overcome Japan's unique and special natural environment and to take advantage of the resources it is blessed with. If we are to imitate them, we must learn from this process of thinking and devising unique ways of thinking from the natural environment. What Japanese religion, culture, behavior, norms, and traditions have in common is the existence of a natural environment that is the antithesis of good and evil. Japan is a land of abundant fresh water and food resources compared to anywhere else in the world, and at the same time, it is a land of harsh, large-scale natural disasters that occur on a regular basis. In order to survive as a species in this environment, they have developed a way of thinking that does not deny the environment, but rather accepts it, and how to coexist with it, making the most of the rich parts of nature and overcoming the dangerous parts of the natural environment. This is the common underlying factor and way of thinking across a wide range of Japanese cultures. This is not something that people around the world who grow up in different environments have in common. Even among Asian countries, the cultures and ways of thinking that have developed in continental and island countries are naturally different because of their completely different environments.

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Loved the video. Out of interest when was this filmed and did the train arrive in Tokyo on time. In the UK it us unlikely to have even left in that level of snow. In Japan middle of Feb and hope to see snow on Kanazawa to Tokyo Shinkansen trip. Just off to watch your GranClass video for that trip again.😄