The NEWEST Bullet Train in Japan - the E8 Series "Tsubasa" Mini-Shinkansen! 

Thank you for taking up Japanese railways!! I use the Yamagata Shinkansen every week, so I'm very happy❤

I personally loved Japanese railways and their trains. The Shinkansen is by far the best high speed railways in the world and it’s now turning 60 years old and what a milestone that the first high speed line has been as well still going strong to this day.

You hear a lot of this shinkansen trains and it's so interesting to see a vlog of these.

Love this trip report! Arigato for this one with the E8, excited for more!

Beautiful trains in Japan. All kinds of train. ❤

Ooohh i love to go back to Japan. My better half is originally from Taiwan, what feels really like Japan especially for the railways. Especially the scenery from the trains in Taiwan is awesome. If you go there, please let me know.

I'll miss the E3 😢It's one of my faves!

Japan is my dream destination to go to next year and Yamagata is the prefecture I really want to visit if I go there which is why THIS is the train I have got to try out 👍

Thank you for showing the wheelchair spaces. As a wheelchair user myself it's interesting to see the accessibility of trains in another country. It's great that they have got multiple wheelchair spaces in one carriage and the toilet looks quite accessible and spacious.

I find it amazing how much thought JR East design their Shinkansen sets for each of their services/routes. -E5s are the mainstay of Tohoku Shinkansen with their long noses ripping it at 320kph up and down the Tohoku Line -E6s stay obtain the long noses since they need to travel up the Tohoku mainline at top speed but is a mini Shinkansen up in the Akita region -E3s have shorter nose as they don’t need to travel as fast to the Yamagata region so those can carry more passengers -now the E8s are just a modernized redesigned to replace the E3s

Just a note: Because the E3 series haven't been fully replaced yet, regular E8 services are still adhering to the original "275 km/h" E3 series timetable. They will only reach 300 km/h if the timetable is delayed (which is not uncommon on the yamagata shinkansen). By the time all E3 series are replaced (should be around 2025), the timetable will speedup to fully utilize E8's 300 km/h capability.

That was so fun to watch! Loved it all, will there be more Shinakansen videos later? The format is really appealing :D

For problems like you had with the power socket, they sell 10cm long extension cords that have a narrow footprint.

You forgot to mention that the e8 is based of the e6 Shinkansen. But I am planing to get onto this train when I go to japan during the summer or winter.

sorry to hear the trains you took arrived late😅 Our trains aren't perfect, unlike what many people assume

Would love to take this someday. I have been on a Shinkansen countless times since childhood but mostly on the Tokaido line (I was born in Shizuoka, which is a stop from Tokyo to Osaka). It seems that shinkansen trains going north are more aesthetic, while the westbound is more utilitarian

Would have been nice for an explanation of what a “Mini” Shinkansen is; also 2x2 layout in indeed common; for Green Car. Otherwise every Shinkansen from 0 series up to the new E8, standard class is always a 3x2 format

Then, you have AMTRAK which apparently takes its decorating inspiration from a Bulgarian Train from the Stalinist Era 😂

You should really got try and ride the near extinct Shinkansen… ride them before they are gone.

Isn't fukushima the place that went kaboom a few years ago?