Stunning Northern Japan on this STRANGE TRAIN: JR Hokuto Limited Express
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Hello and welcome back to Japan! Today we're on the northern island of Hokkaido and we'll be taking one of the Limited Express services through some stunning scenery!
The JR Hokuto starts from Hakodate at the end of the Shinkansen network and travels along some beautiful coastlines and breathtaking mountains en-route to Sapporo, capital of Hokkaido. I do hope you enjoy the video!
Date of Filming: 17/11/22
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: JR Hokkaido
Departure: Shin-Hakodate-Hokuto, Japan
Arrival: Sapporo, Japan
Cost: Green Car - 13,100 Yen (£78.50, €90.21, $93.33)
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Thank you for visiting Hokkaido! The first car's shape with the high cockpit is for protecting a driver in case of accidents. There was an accident with a car at a crossing before, which injured the train driver severely. After that they adopted this design cause the train goes through wilderness areas with many wild deers and the visibility gets low due to snow in winter.
Thanks for the information ☺️ℹ️
@@NonstopEurotrip No worries! I always enjoy your fun and informative videos :)
incorrect, i'm sorry, the high cockpit is because they can couple with more coaches and at the same time people can move from coach to coach after coupling... same as the Dutch koploper...
@@guidodj8456 That's not the main reason in Japan
@@guidodj8456 Thanks for reply. It can be a reason for other trains but not this train. The design successfully saved a driver in an accident with a dump truck in 2010. You may see its accident report in the link below (all in Japanese but some photos there).
www.mlit.go.jp/jtsb/railway/rep-acci/RA2011-3-2.pdf
What can I expect from Japan?
Beautiful trip reports like this coming soon to this channel
10/10
Absolutely Pedro. Lots more to come! 😀
Definitely a XXI century Koploper! Gorgeous sceneries, comfy seats and distinguished trainsets. Very nice experience
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
Good video as always! Pay attention to a thing: the footrests in the Japan trains have two sides, the exterior one can be used with your shoes on, but the interior one can be used only without the shoes!! This way it stays clean for other people which rest their feet without shoes.
I'm aware now 🤣
Beautiful Japan 😍😍😍😍
Absolutely 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
As usual thanks for the video mate. As someone who loves japan, and is unable to travel there because of money or even get a job there due to language barrier and others and and! I love travelling via trains. These videos really help me! Thanks again.
Also one suggestion I would like to suggest is the shinkansan from niigata to tokyo. The shinkansen on that line uses the old 97 model, and the advantage of that is it has very big windows! Although it's the slowest of all the shinkansen at 220km/h but it is really nice. The new shinkansen model has smaller circular windows.
I just didn't have time this time. I did manage an E5, E7 and 700 series tho. I was after a 500 but they're rare now 🥲
Thanks for sharing a great video and interesting video. Loved watching your videos too. 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️
Glad you liked it Sharon ☺️
I think Hokkaido's natural view is good.
It sure is!
Great video.
Well portraid of our country's transportations! Thank you so much!!
Thank you so much 🥰🇯🇵🥰🇯🇵
really appreciate for the amazing information and beautiful
Glad you enjoyed it mate 😊
Japan is amazing ❤Japanese trains are stellar ❤ Can’t wait to go back!!!!
Me too!!!! 😀
Another amazing journey. Looks like a very smooth & comfortable ride!
Absolutely was David 😍
Wow coastal ride, lets see
😍😍😍
Funny, the day before yesterday I watched some videos by a Japanse guy exploring Europe’s trains and now by a European exploring Japan’s trains.
Ironic 😂
Wow 😮 that sunset! I would expect nothing less than punctuality and impeccable cleanliness of Japanese trains. Swiss trains also carry these attributes 👍🏻
Thanks Rob! Where have you been?! 😆
@@NonstopEurotrip … 🤣 busy getting ready for Christmas 🎄🧑🏻🎄
The elegance of Japanese trains 😍
Beautiful aren't they 😃
3:36 The shape of the front of this train originates from the JNR 583 series (1967-2017).
Background music is making me to feel my childhood.☺(random feeling)
😍🇯🇵😍🇯🇵😍🇯🇵
I hope you had some nice food as soon as you had arrived in Sapporo. Thanks for the video, this inspires me to finally visit Hokkaido which is a place I have never been to yet
You definitely should 😃
Very good video as always!
I took a Shinkansen from Tokyo to Fukuoka in 2018 in a Green Car with the JR Pass, it was too good and I was surprised by the progress made by the railway company JR after taking a Shinkansen previously in 2005
Best railway system in the world. No doubt.
Japanese trains have such characteristics. Even some do look like animals and can go even faster.
Such a wide variety, I love it 🥰🇯🇵
Yep 😊
สวยงามมากค่ะ
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Been there on Hikari Shinkansen, it was from Tokyo to Hamamatsu, a lovely and speedy journey
Absolutely 🤗
ようこそ日本へ!! Welcome to Japan!!
Japanese scenery have a different beauty depending on the season. I highly recommend winter in Hokkaido.
Oh absolutely. I'll have to come back for the cherry blossoms 🌸
Another great video mate., If my memory serves me right. I saw a news piece in the NHK's Japan Railway Journal show that they were testing composite sleeprs to be used as replacement for the wooden ones.
I don't know about that but these were definitely wooden 😂
Sapporo is a fantastic city. I was there in 2010 looking for work (unsuccessfully). I then took the Hokutosei night train down to Tokyo - sad it is no longer running. I hope you had some Miso butter corn ramen while you were there. It’s still my favourite type of ramen.
Beautiful city 💞
Well that was an interesting travel. KiHa also built some short-distance DMUs for the USSR in early 60's but those looked like Pacers.
KiHa isn't a company. KiHa (きは) is just a part of the abbreviation system used for Japanese trains. This train has the first class car (green car) named KiRoHa 261-200, and the other cars named KiHa 26x-y00, with x = 0 or 1, and y = 1 or 2.
The Class 261 trains were built by JR Hokkaido itself (21 trains) and by Fuji Heavy Industries (14 trains), and the car bodies were designed in cooperation with the Danish State Railways.
Yeah. It's like saying 'Class xx'
@Nonstop Eurotrip i just wanted to say that these japanese koploper trainset looks like the NS ICMm
Did you even watch the video 🤣
@@NonstopEurotrip yes i watched the video 🤣
@@marcogeurts9881 you must have missed my koploper photo then ☺️
@@NonstopEurotrip i didn't missed the photo but when the video began and that train was arriving i inmediatly recognize that train 😅
I'm most jealous of their toilets. I don't know if it's the culture or they do a lot more cleaning or both but I want that in NL.
Me too, should be worldwide 😀
Great trip. Can't wait for next Japanese trip video. By the way, beside trains, did you also try other transportation like Long Distance Bus and Long Distance Ferry in Japan?
Thanks! I tried the overnight bus from Osaka and Tokyo but no ferries... This time!!
@@NonstopEurotrip Ahh okay. Did you make trip report for Overnight bus?
I have started to ignore the Shinkansen trains for sightseeing when on holiday in Japan except for Tokyo - Osaka. The new lines are mostly sections of long tunnels (20-30km) connected together with a few km of open track, so you see almost nothing. They are good to get you between places quickly but you don't see much out of the window on the newer Shinkansen lines.
True yeah the limited express and local trains on the classic lines are definitely the way to see the landscapes 😍
Interesting tidbit pertaining to Japanese railways - only the Shinkansen uses the standard 1435mm (4ft 8 1/2in) gauge. Outside the Shinkansen, any other railway will almost certainly be 1067mm (3ft 6in) narrow gauge, though there are exceptions.
Indeed.
I believe that they are extending the Shinkansen to Sapporo (eventually), which I guess will then replace this train. Probably faster journey, but probably less scenic! I hadn't realised that Sapporo is so far away from the Southern end of Hokkaido.
Yep its planned to open in around 2030 & will cut travelling time to just 1h, but with ~80% of the route reportedly in tunnels
Indeed, 2030 with a new 350kmh Shinkansen
3:54 as someone who watched Japanese trains first and got into European trains after.... Come on, Europe, what are you doing?! I don't watch to ride anything facing backwards! And you can have more than 2 groups traveling together in each car!!!!!!!
Also, the foot rest: it has 2 sides, 1 with the same colour as the floor, 1 with the same colour as the seat. The floor coloured side can be used with shoe on. The seat coloured side is intended to be used with shoes off.
The reversing seat thing is really not a European thing. And most people don't care.
I’ve had Sapporo beer if that counts as experience 🤣
Defo counts John 😊 🍻
I'm planning to try the Shinkansen from Tokyo to Hakodate in late Nov. Question is if I purchase the JR Pass Green Car does that mean I top up less for Gran Class than the normal JR Pass?
Unfortunately not. The JR pass (standard or green car) only covers the base fare, then you need to buy the gran class supplement.
You should do the limited Fuji express. I would recommend it.
RomanceCar?
@@NonstopEurotrip That's it. I've watched many cab rides about this. If you never traveled by this train before I would recommend it for you!!! 🚄💖
@@special5513 I've already filmed it. Not edited yet tho ☺️
@@NonstopEurotrip I'm excited
Next train Sunrise Izumo please 🥺
I've already filmed but not yet edited Seto, will that be ok? 😌
If I have JR Rail Pass (Green class), do I have to reserved a seat or I can sit on any seat? Thank you.
Most trains have some unreserved seating but a few Shinkansen and limited Expresses are all reservation only. However it's free to reserve a seat online or at any Jr station so best to do that especially if travelling in a couple or group 🙂
Welcome to Japan! And how are you enjoying Hokkaido?
I was born in Hokkaido.🙂
The Hokuto Train runs on some of the most recommended routes in Japan.
Although it is only a local train, the Senmou-Line, which runs from Kushiro to Abashiri in the east of Hokkaido, is also very scenic.
The Shinkansen has many tunnels and no scenic views.
"Limited-express (Tokkyu)" runs throughout Japan, covering rural areas and offering scenic views.
Loved Hokkaido and Japan in general! Thanks for the information ☺️ℹ️
@@NonstopEurotrip Thanks for the reply.
I am going to London and Europe next year. Looking forward to riding many trains👍
@@NonstopEurotrip Also, have you noticed?
Type Kiha-261 trains are designed in collaboration with Danish State Railways (DSB).
The ceiling and information LEDs are very similar.
Wasn't departure time 13.50, hence why it was dark on arrival, video says 10.25 :) great trip report, Japanese trains very punctual :)
Well spotted 🤫
I would love to take that train, Have you taken the ferries in Japan? Have you been to Canada and Israel?
I've been to Canada, but not Israel. Japan ferries on the to-do list for next year 👍🏻
HOKKAIDO express train 261
As mentioned in the video
@@NonstopEurotrip I'm live in HOKKAIDO sapporo city
How did the sun set in the east?
Have a look at the route 😂
Muito lindo trem da China 🇨🇳 bom dia
It's Japan 🇯🇵
Hello again!
Just to make this non-spam:
I LOVE Japan, but not the working culture.
Any places in Japan not covered yet?
I agree about the work! I went to all 4 main islands on my trip 😊
As much as I am enjoying your Japan trip, I have to say in both of your videos, you didn't take off your shoes when using the carpeted side of the foot rest. Maybe somebody should have told you.........
The other passengers wouldn't have thanked me
7:56 Hardly a "green" train with low ridership and a diesel to boot!
Green car is first class.
@@NonstopEurotrip I wasn't referring to the color of the train cars but rather the lack of clean ("green") energy consumption and a practically empty train besides.
Completely useless maybe even pointless, but not entirely unrelated , fact - Sapporo was the first Japanese beer I ever tasted, as a teenager. The only thing I really remember was the full lid came off the top of the can. 😀
Have been watching and enjoying some of the Japanese travel guys over the last few months show off Japan, so def interesting to see Japan from a UK perspective. Hope to make it over there one day!
Anyway, re video ideas - i was wondering if you took any footage of the cities and towns you spend a few days at? Would it be worth vlogging some of these?
Haha don't worry I have much more to come too! I filmed some bits in the cities but for the start and ends of videos ☺️
The trip was awesome but damn, 90€ for a 3 hours journey?
That's a little absurd for me, even for Japanese standards.
I can go in a 2-3 days trip with that money.
I can't imagine giving 90€ for a train ride...
My advice. Don't go to Japan 😂
@@NonstopEurotrip Lmao