Meet Japan’s E5 Series Shinkansen

Come Spring 2011 Japan will add another Shinkansen model to it’s already impressive lineup. The E5 Series Shinkansen will be put to work by JR East and run from Tokyo to Shin-Aomori in just over 3 hours eventually reaching speeds of 320 kilometers per hour.

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E5 Series Shinkansen meeting the press

The long 15 meter platypus-like nose is is designed to reduce noise when entering tunnels and as can be seen above the entire aluminium alloy body will be mostly painted green and white with a pink stripe. This is one good looking train but the design of the N700 is still my favourite. Check the video below for a better veiw of the E5 Series Shinkansen including on the track action and testing.

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Image and Information sources

Mainichi News Photo Journal
Wikipedia
JR East

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19 thoughts on “Meet Japan’s E5 Series Shinkansen

  1. Cool! I have rode the N700 a few times and it is very nice. I can’t wait to try this one out.

  2. I like the green part but the color of the bottom sucks. I would like to ride it. To tell the truth I havent even rode a shinkansen in my 2+ years in Japan [sob]

  3. I’ve done the Tokyo-to-Osaka ride on Nozomi (non-stop from Tokyo to Nagoya) and it was smoother than flying, and almost as fast 😉

    My job requires me to travel all throughout East Japan on the company’s coin, so maybe I’ll be able to take a free ride on this baby, as well.

  4. First time here and looks like a very successful blog . Another great invention created by the Japanese . [japan]

  5. Thats’s an interesting train. Maybe I have to get back to Jpan in 2011 to try it Lived in Japan from 1993 to 1997 and have visited Japan on many occasions since as well. Have been on every Shinkansen up to the 700 series. My work took me everywhere, so, nice to ride the trains as my ex-firms expense.
    Last time that I was in Japan was in February, 2008, and saw the prototype N700 at Tokyo station.
    Amazing technology. Just read where all the 400 series have been scrapped
    ( Tsubasa). Went on those to Yamagata a few times.
    Fantastic trip, in winter with the snow so deep.
    I am in Australia, and we talk about HSR, but, it will never happen. Too big a country, and too few people to use the service.

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