Japan’s $64BN Gamble on Levitating Bullet Trains Explained
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Finally a country that understands that public transport is one of the most important components of city infrastructure.
And it’s done so good to when I was living there I could travel anywhere in the country it was amazing and a very far price
Public transportation in cities is usually bloated and inefficient because of beurocrats.
If we reformed that, public transportation would be a legitimate means for every day travel
Lol calm down
They don't understand shit, they're deep in debt, depression, and dwindling population, and they're wasting more money on stupid shit instead despite that they ALREADY have pretty good public transport and infrastructure. They need to deal with their bloated government sector, overstretched social services, birth rstes and crippling debt (270% of GDP) first instead
@@mkzhero #preach
"It'll move at twice the speed and cut times in half"
I did the math for a few hours and I can confirm that it checks out
Rich, get out.
DAMN , so that means moving faster means less time ????this is groundbreaking .
Thanks bro!
Quick maths ayy
I just found out that dividing one hour by two gives you half an hour journey.
As a journalist working in a regional press, I was one of the few lucky ones to board the test maglev between Tokyo and Nagoya. It's quiet and stable, and when I closed my eyes, I really could forget that I was moving at 500km per hour.
🥺🥺
That's wonderful to hear.
I haven't been so lucky to ride the maglev but the one time I rode the shinkansen, I was on my phone waiting for the train to leave. Finally I looked up wondering why we hadn't left, and we were already going full speed.
Drove to Mt. Fuji and you could see the testing off the highway. Fastest thing I have ever seen. Japan is an amazing country.
One of the things I appreciate most about Japan is their willingness to build these insane investments into infrastructure.
They're the 3rd largest economy.
@@pepehimovic3135 meanwhile the world’s largest has almost nothing to show for hsr
@@duncanmcauley7932 Irrelevant. Their population density is far less than Japan's, and not only do their largest population centers have less people than that of Japan or China, they're far more spread out. Less demand, less investment. It's basic economics.
@@pepehimovic3135 but why wouldn't the northeast corridor work? That's the only area where anything close to high speed is in place
@@duncanmcauley7932 I don't know, you'll have to google, assuming you haven't already. I don't know enough about the US to make an educated guess on that specifically, but I imagine it's due to economic reasons as well. 🤷🏾
Japan is such an enigma. Avowed futurists and entrenched traditionalists in one.
Diversity sure doing wonders there 'wink wink'
@@N4CR5 I suppose it has. The modern Japanese are, after all, a mix of different cultural backgrounds that hybridized into one.
@@AD-gl2wi lmao no, japan is 99.8% Japanese
@John Ludwig Japan actually is far less homogenous than countries like say, Korea, in its heritage and cultural background. It isn’t a unique quality, but that’s what’s so interesting about all places, the cultural and genetic diversity. They did somewhat choose what was best for their own people, as all countries should. Overall, I find nothing to disagree with in your statement, or the statement preceding mine.
But they still love their fax machines.
Japan is such an interesting mix of modern and traditional. Very neat to see what's down the road here. I need to go back and visit, it's been a while.
It is very beneficial for the nation to improve on these nationwide bottlenecks. Since Japan has a small land area and the distance between cities is short, there is not much advantage in flying, so you can invest a lot of money in trains.
Agreed - this works for Japan because it's a small country. Flying isn't economical or practical for them. Driving is also tough because of the terrain. Not a problem every other country has. But even still it's amazing feat that I'm sure can be used in different ways around the world.
@@Snowkone81 Imagine if the US instead of building the interstate highway system, built the interstate high speed rail system. We could still have built more highways, but focusing on using all that land acquisition for rail lines instead.
Interesting that you'd call Japan small 😂.
Greetings from the Netherlands! A country so small, there are no commercial flights between its northernmost and southernmost airports
@@Jaker788 It's not like Japan doesn't have highways. Rather, its highways are limited to 4-5 lanes with high tolls.
Japan's land mass is really that small. Just regular size. 377K km²?.. that's bigger than most eu countries... Also, Japan's land mass is elongated, covering from eastern russia down to easter of taiwan. So...
"The maglev train can go only every 10 minutes unlike the traditional bullet train that can go every three minutes" - *Me crying silently in German* The train I have to take only comes every 60 minutes and sometimes slows down to 50 km/h. :(
Well, I live in Brazil, we have no trains here (except for a few cities) so I need to take a bus that takes over 1,5 hours to go through 20 kilometers because of heavy traffic. And sometimes I need to wait over 1 hour for that bus, because there are few lines and it's always late.
Be grateful for your train, seriously. 😕
My crying in American where the Amtrak train I need comes 3 times a day and is usually late by an hour.
Me an indian hanging off of a train running 7 hours late
Me an indian:- you guys have trains multiple times a day making the same trips and not once a month?
Well dont forget that we had the Transrapid already developed in the 1990 but our politicans decider, after decades of development that the technology is not worth pursuing and in the end we sold it to China. The same shit happened some years later with the Cargolifter... a fucking shame how a bit Lobby Influence can kill good projects.
I absolutely love trains, the only thing stopping me from taking them more in the UK is that the ticket prices are insane, if they were affordable I'd ride them all the time
So true, ticket prices in the UK are ridiculously stupid
Really? Lol cause I never lived anywhere else I thought they were always like that
I agree 100%
@@user-og8xv1ih4p aha nope, I mean from what I've seen train prices elsewhere in Europe are way cheaper, and the prices here used to be good but then they have just kept getting extremely expensive
It probably has to do to Margaret Thatcher "liberalizing" the economy while she was prime minister. Several companies share the rail market and the customers are the cuckolds of the story.
These mega projects are really cool, however it makes me jealous that the US doesn’t have trains that fast
Sadly it isn't really as practical in the US, at least for moving people around. The problem with the US is it's so damn big, there's just too much space between important cities to make something worth while. I mean on a small scale trains certainly are good and can be very practical and efficient when used in the right places, but there just wouldn't be enough benefit to justify the cost of a project like this in the US.
Yeah we suck. Washington DC to NYC would be amazing
the new york subways are slow asf 😭
@@Tommy50377 we also just refuse to take public transportation or infrastructure in general seriously
@@Tommy50377 There is no reason for the US to refuse to use these trains going forward, other then covering up black projects.
"the current trains run every 3 minutes, but the new ones will only be able to run every 10 minutes" - meanwhile where I live the train is every 2 hours.
The shot of the rain coming off as the train goes through the station was curiously engaging.
That's not rain. That is water sprayed onto the train from the side of the tracks.
@@DragonSeru @Jim it is neither. In fact it is condensing air due to the low pressure of fast moving air (look up bernoullis principle)
@@Zheeraffa1 cool
@@Zheeraffa1 A cone of condensing vapor around a bullet train would look pretty cool, I guess.
Time?
Its crazy to think about it.
When its done, it'll take me more time to get from my home in the Tokyo suburbs (about 30km from central Tokyo) to the Maglev station, than it takes to go from Tokyo to Osaka which is almost 600km away.
Can't wait!
You live in Japan?
@@MB-ju6yv Since Harsh said "my home in the Tokyo suburbs" I assume that means Tokyo, Japan. :D
@@civlyzed Genius
You're a telugu guy... if I'm not wrong.
They say trains on the Tokyo-Osaka line run every 3 minutes. Does that mean you can go every 3 minutes from Tokyo to Osako or do they count both directions, i.e. if you watch the rail, you will see a train every 3 minutes?
I have lived in Japan for 25 years and I Love living there , Highly educated and modest people . Tokyo the train fares are pretty reasonable and efficient . Japanese are honest and hard working people , Japan has population 127,000,000 and one of the safest country in the world . incredible people they are well mannared shy , rather quiet and as I said well educated . God bless Japan and the Wonderful Japanese people .
Thank you, it’s in our blood and upbringing.
True! I’m a 24yr old mixed Japanese, lived here 6 years and I love it!
It has it’s weird, sad, fucked up realities, and the haters sure hate, but overall it’s an amazing country!
どうもありがとうございます💕🇯🇵
It is their demographics
This video came up randomly in my recommended. Definitely glad it did. Fantastic and super interesting! Thanks!!
In my opinion this train system is also like the shinkansen in the 60's everybody was criticising it until it opened to the public and started generating enormous profits and economic benefits Japan should not cancel or delay this project
That is true but when you are improving something which is already good enough the upgrade will by very expensive and the profits wont be that large. For example lets say you have a connection by road between 2 cities it takes 8 hours by car and 4 hours by propeller plane. If you bring here aircraft with combustion engine and shorten it to 2 hours do you think that many people will make this switch? I dont think so. Only the richest will go for the 2 hours option. The most of the people stays in the cheaper 4 hour flight plane.
So at first the boost from 8 hours in car to 4 hours in propeller plane is huge step but another step from propeller plane to slighttly faster plane? Not that much.
I'm interested to see whether those economic benefits pan out. Supersonic Concorde cut transatlantic journey times by 2.5 times. But it turns out airliners were already "fast enough" and there's a point of diminishing returns in high speed travel where efficiency and scalability matter more. Costs increase exponentially the faster you want to go.
@@Captain__Obvious agreed
This.
The original Shinkansen was way over budget and everyone said it would be a flop, now it is the gold standard for rail travel.
@@Captain__Obvious I mean i dont know, i just would visit japan to drive this train. But i get what you mean. In country Airlines will hopefully die out for the most of he world. The shinkansen is allready the most comfortable way to travel in japan.
B1M talking about train again?? Let's gooo
All aboard
Wendover has planes, B1M has trains he’s just staking his territory
Just like Wendover talks about planes
Country planning to build road
Russia: **Pathetic**
Yesss
I live in tokyo and lemme tell you this we just go anywhere around tokyo without waiting for more than 4mins. Like the whole tokyo metro system is convenient af😮💨 its just crazy
Thansk for creating and sharing this.
The pride of the Japanese Shinkansen is that it is safe and no one has died from train derailments for more than half a century.
50 years and no train derailments? Wtffff
50 years and no train derailments? Wtffff
Meanwhile in the States....LOL
Yes, and the profound thing about Shinkansen is they are routine.
@@the_real_cookiez and they are not even fast.
One reason why this line would be super beneficial, is because you could live in a cheaper city (I’m pretty sure Nagoya and Osaka are relatively cheaper), and still get a job in Tokyo, where most of them are located. This would help quite a bit
I don’t think that will help. One way ticket from Osaka to Tokyo is more than 100 USD. So taking return trips daily is not something making financial sense.
@@wennw2711 There's a chance that the company bonuses will pay for your travel expenses if it's 100 usd. Maybe...
@@wennw2711 Very true, that's extremely cost prohibitive. On another point though, this still allows for people to partially live in a different city during the work week, then catch a train home for time off; something that's becoming very common already in Japan, so this just saves people a bunch of hours.
Plus, for things like visiting family or events, it's a no-brainer not having to spend 3 hours both ways to do it. Where a lot of times it just doesn't happen at all because of the time investment.
Y'all are forgetting that it's going to be cost inefficient for the beginning years and as the technology proves itself, they'll build more with better technology that will allow them to cut the costs to maintain the same efficiency.
You think the ticket will be free? Omg
Left many salivating...tq CZcamsrs..bringing the info faster than the fastest any..😊
I loved this video, it gives me great satisfaction and I hope you continue with this content.
In Australia we're still debating if high speed rail is viable or the work of the devil 🙄🇦🇺
The politicians are still trying to figure out how it makes them rich, when they do we will get high-speed rail ✅
Honestly we're still debating if regular rail is the work of the devil or not in most states.
Why wtf😂
This is so frustrating hey...
Same in Sweden. Politicians here have been discussing about trains going up to 320 km/h for years. After all these discussions the speed was decreased to 250 km/h and completion is unknown. They have started on the lines but no one knows if it will ever be completed. Meanwhile Japan be living in the 22nd century.
The UK is spending more than double that amount with HS2 to have trains that run at the same speed Japans trains were in 1958
Let that sink in.
But isn't that cause England's rail infrastructure is over a century old? Plus British Rail was privatised by Thatcher so it became a complete disaster that bled money.
@@zixx844 while our rail infrastructure is old and there was privatisation, neither really excuses the project cost being stupid. This is a (mostly) new line, except we're not having to work nearly as hard on the groundworks as Japan because we are not going through nearly the mountainous terrain nor do we have much in the way of earthquakes. That, and it's not actually very fast, so the precision needed is much lower. I'm impressed how incompetent we are :(
@@asharak84 Well what about land purchases? England is pretty much built out so you would have had to buy the land off other people in order to build new rail lines.
I live in Australia so I really am not familiar at all with England's current infrastructure situation so I'm basing what I'm saying off pretty loose understanding.
HS2 is ridiculous. I work in Birmingham City Centre so I walk past it every day and the cost of the whole thing does not justify the type of trains or environmental impact of the whole thing
@@zixx844 yeah purchasing costs are non-trivial, but still less than 10% of total budget. Money has to be going somewhere but I don't really know where, the cost breakdowns i can find are not very clear
Really well made Video, subscribed!
From 7 hours to 4 to 2 hours down to 67 mins. Nothing but progression, it’s cool to see they kept trains around and what they’ve done, I don’t see any where I live.
The craziest fact about the Shinkansen is that it's never had a fatal accident, despite it being the first and in earthquake country.
They are heavily designed around earthquakes. Im pretty sure there are sensors that are all along the tracks, and if a earthquake is detected, the train will shut down.
Except for all the people who jump in front of them... Plenty of people have been killed by the shinkansen, just not on the shinkansen. Though a guy with a knife did try to change that a while back, blindly stabbing passengers.
@@kidShibuya well, it's pretty much every train station in the world problem though, not the train's fault.
@@kidShibuya have you heard stabbing incident on U.S. ? Wtf your saying doesn't meant for the shinkansen, do you see a freaking shinkansen stab people using knife, are you on drugs nigga thinking this is thomas and friends episode and to tell you some facts, shinkansen already slowed before it reach the platform which means the driver can stop it fast before it hit a passenger who jump on rail tracks. Some station in japan has this barrier to prevent people from falling to tracks, your country probably don't have it that's why your putting your countries rail problem to shinkansen.
Technically not entirely true. One person died when he got his body stuck across the door from Mishima Station and fell onto the tracks in 1995. Granted, this only started because of him temporarily exiting the train to make a phone call and rushing back, but JR was also held responsible for not holding up the train as well as the train door being designed as fail-deadly...
"... Every THREE MINUTES..." for a train schedule??? This blew my (United States) mind. That is an extreme amount of people moved
It's really amazing over there, for the most part you can just go to any train station and one shows up in no time. Meanwhile if you miss the bus in the states you're sometimes waiting nearly an hour for the next one.
If you can have every 3 mins, why go back to 10? I'm sorry but 300km/he is good enough for me
@@timberwolfe1645 You might lost 7 mins for waiting for the new train. In the other hand you can save 1.5hr along the trip :)
The timing is very precise too. I live a block away from a shinkansen track and there's a train that passes at 5:00 PM every day…usually on the dot. The longest I've ever seen it delayed is about 20 seconds.
@@timberwolfe1645 It's just an additional option. It will not replace the existing shinkansen. Most likely, it'll be used primarily for business, while people who aren't in a hurry will save money by taking the regular high speed trains.
I love watching different videos this amazing I learn something new every day
Isn't the chinese maglev technology developed off of previous Germany developed technology for it, at least the foundational elements of the technology? That's what the Shanghai maglev train utilised. It feels weird to mention china's proposal in contrast to japan's like its entirely homegrown - china's technology and highspeed rail expertise is ridiculously good but it utilised existing german magelev testing as well as german designed rolling stock on its current functioning line and to reach where it is now. That's not this discredit the drive and work done in China, but I think this context is needed to dismiss the idea that china has just magically caught up with the nearly half century of research Japan put into their maglev trains.
Japan has their priorities straight !!!!
Ok Ron
At least when it comes to trains
@@mentoshoarder5175 But not work-life balance
@@user-do5zk6jh1k or gender/ racial equality to modernising
@@user-do5zk6jh1k don't forget censoring history
USA should take notes ... lol in Japan they already rethink their "old" HSR network and they worry about trains being less frequent, with only 1 train every 10 minutes instead of every 3 minutes ... what an impressive dimension! And then also being a decade ahead of schedule ... just WOW
Maybe you should more fair when making such comments. The USA is 26 times the size of Japan. The population density of the US is 36 per square KM vs 347 square KM for Japan. The cost of building that small line is $64B and it’s length is 177 miles; it couldn’t even connect LA to San Francisco (380 miles). Japan would benefit a lot more from investing in such a transit system compared to the us.
US is really different compare to Japan made HST harder to do but at least they already starts with small step (Brightline) hopefully they success in HST for passengers.
@@DeusEx.Machina Understood, thank you.
US is just a third world country with a Gucci belt
@@DeusEx.Machina lol this is so dense. The US is bigger but that just means the higher chance for growth along the lines. There is so much space disconnected and HSR gives faster access to goods. I’m addition there are other shorter lines from Atlanta to Charlotte to dc to Baltimore to NYC to Boston. That are more equitable to the one off SF to LA you proposition. The steel will increase the steel mill workers. The increased economic boom from smaller towns on the line would be astronomical not including the potential for millennials to move further away from costly cities without losing access.
i remember seeing a maglev train in the sci-fi movie "the island" and thought it was such a cool idea for a train, but thought it probably wouldn't be possible in reality. i'm glad i was wrong :P
It's always exciting to see new transportation technologies put into use.
Japan builds a whole Maglev line for $60 billion and here in NYC we build 3 new subway stations for the same amount of money 🤦🏻♂️
Try being here in Texas, Were still building freeways and the only subway we have is in Dallas. 🤦🏾♂️
nyc train suck balls. always got bums taking up a whole train section because they smell so bad, card machines either dont accept cash/coin or sell new cards/only for recharging, and trains are late occasionally.
The UK is currently planning to spend 100billion pounds (129billion US$) on a hs2 railway project just so we can go from 125mph to 225mph-250mph at most. So not even consistently at 225mph. Tl;dr our country decided to spend hundreds of billions, if not more, for a railway system that goes from London to Leeds in 2hrs instead of 2hrs30... And in the end, it'll likely raise the cost of tickets (current train rides from London to Leeds cost you around £60) because they'll need to make that money back somehow. It's like our countries want to throw away money.
Rail prices are different in different countries
@@woodlandforest3336 nope, the reason is the WCML is at capacity, we need more of it. We spend billions on trying to slightly upgrade victorian infrastructure, building new is much better value. Just wish we had a little less NIMBYism so it didn't cost so much.
I loved travelling on these when I went on holiday to Japan. They're so quiet and efficiently run. It was actually quite soothing.
I love traveling to Endia 🇮🇳 you'll see lots of dirty disgusting stinky slums
@@NightcorEDM first off, its India. And if you think India has only poverty then you didn't see a thing here.
;)
Your are one to the lucky one. While me just admire this video.
@@YourLocalCafe Despite the slums and countrytowns, India still looks fairly normal.
Great video. Videos like this make school obsolete since they teach from 1950's books.
This video has really LEVITATED my understanding of Japan's Maglev trains. It truly HOVERS ABOVE other videos.
I am going to cry now.
5:20
There is a reason why Shizuoka Prefecture is opposed to the Levitating Bullet Trains construction.
A long time ago, in Shizuoka Prefecture, the Tanna Tunnel, the most difficult tunnel at the time, was constructed. A large amount of water flowed endlessly during the construction, and the construction did not progress at all. After many years of work, when the construction was finally completed, the area, which was famous for its wasabi cultivation, abundant water and beautiful waterfalls, was completely dried up, and now it has been transformed into livestock and dairy farms. Because of this precedent, Shizuoka Prefecture residents are cautious about construction of Levitating Bullet Trains. The Tanna Tunnel also had benefits for the citizens of Shizuoka Prefecture.
However, the construction of the Levitating Bullet Trains is of no benefit to them.
Japan’s rail system is legit. I go there for awhile and come back to the states and sigh at our mass transit options. Ahhh the possibilities.
But mah oil profits!
They’re going to build a bullet train line in Tx using Japan’s N700 shinkansen. It’s cleared 90% of all major hurdles and is looking to start construction this year if possible.
@@Jps007cat Let's hope they make some progress and stay on budget unlike California's HSR.
Same with me but in Europe. Amtrak is an absolute joke in the US and needs a proper renaissance. We need a revival of the Transcontiental Railroad here with high-speed/hyper-loop trains. I fear Americans, alas, are still too obsessed with their cars, which I don't understand. I personally love to take the subway or a commuter train. Save a ton of money as opposed to owning a car.
Too much going to israhell and trillions wasted in war . Welcome to states .
Unlike hyperloop, maglev actually exists
But sir
Your wrong lol
Prototype hyperliop tracks can be seen around the world.
@@NiallMcEvoy05 can't even go 200kmph 🙂
@@adityaajit2120 oh right
@@NiallMcEvoy05 and I can't see it anywhere in Europe, Africa, South America, Australia and Antartica ( just for fun ) lol
@@adityaajit2120 they can't even go 100kph lmao
Honestly Japan really can build things we would never think of. I just love how creative they are
What?
What?
You mean the things people were thinking of in the 60s, like this video said?
Japan bought this technology from germany. it wasnt their invention. The whole concept behind it was made in germany.
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Excellent. Thanks for this.
I've been in the shinkansen that connects Tokyo with Kyoto, and let me tell you, it's a marvel of technology. While speeding at insane speeds you can hardly feel any movement. The surface of my glass of water was perfectly still. Amazing
Plus the train is super comfy :) I lost it when I saw you can even turn the seats to make 4 chairs facing each other.
I balanced a coin on the table in the smoking carriage haha. Meanwhile in Australia it's a rollercoaster on the narrow gauge tracks. Sigh.
@@deanfawcett2085 🤯
It truly is incredible. Always smooth for me too!
@Sahil Singh It wasn't sold it was licensed to CSR Sifang aka Chinese Government. Who in their right mind would sell something like that smh.
Japan is like 100 years ahead with trains, while Europe is debating if their old trains are slow enough "for safety" etc and no innovation in sight
Should be an interesting disaster movie about rescuing passengers aboard one of these trains hundreds of meters under a mountain.
No innovation in future too, you guys aren't still fed up with refugees... They are going push Europe back to 7th century
Well french's TGV are quite fast aswell...
@@forcehucos2429 has nothing to do with refugees. Europe just sometimes is kind of afraid of being innovative
There are plans for the Hyperloop train to connect European cities
It rings in my head every time you say “shedule”
Meanwhile in the Netherlands: Well, gents, looks like there is a leaf on the tracks. Better cancel the train for the rest of the month.
its amazing how japan gives no shit to hyperloop and other tech spin offs and focuses on their existing infrastructure constantly upgrading it.
Because Hyperloop is a trash concept
To be fair they need to build a totally new line for this technology which is not upgrading the current one but adding a new infrastructure.
they probably know hyperloop is a scam
Because they can only improve existing technology and cannot innovate new ones.
That's why it's economy is stagnant and it missed the internet and currently missing the ai revolution.
Hyperloop is a pipedream
"Wheels? Where we're going, we don't need wheels!" -Chief engineer (probably)
"We did not reinvent the wheel, we made it unnecessary"
Actually they do have wheels when they lift off and slow down ,when in transit they retract
@@MacHineJXD petition to remove the wheels in favor of a rocket.
@@lemmyboy4107 I remember reading about rocketrains as a concept some years back.
Chief Engineer Dr Emmett Brown at De Lorean Trains inc!
In japan it really feels like everything is possible. Great job!
This never gets mentioned in these videos but its actually german technology which has later been sold to japan due to an incident
One of the many reasons why I love the innovation and incredible ingenuity of Japan. Incredible country, plus people have manners and respect for one another.
They have lots of societal issues
Innovative? Not really. In many ways, Japan is stuck in the past with stuff like presenting business card, not being able to pay by card, and fax machine use.
-269°C is only 4° off of absolute zero. That's pretty impressive.
Goes to show how much power they need to keep the entire length of track that cold
Oh my god i didn't even notice that. That is very insane
That's to bring out the superconducting properties of whatever material they're using
Not impressive imo
Expensive is the word.
lmao theyre gonna need cooling akin to particle accelerator cooling
Kudos to Japan. A country that knows that fighting climate change is not by paying for people's new electric cars, but by offering them an alternative to buying a car.
That’s kind because they want to be the monopoly in the hydrogen powered vehicles. Hydrogen is far more environmental friendly and literally comes from air and sun. But because of Japan’s few corporation owning nearly every patent on this technology, it makes nearly impossible for any other country to participate without paying huge amounts of fees. You can see how Elon Musk is letting his patents go to other smaller corps around the world, it’s beneficial to have a healthy environment for technology advancements. So that’s probably why almost everyone is pushing ev as fossil fuel alternative.
@@user-ye6ft4ly7r Sure Hydrogen, if it spontaneously comes into existence, is environmentally sound and a perfect fuel. The issue lies in the energy required to create, distribute, and pressurize that hydrogen. If we can solve that issue maybe it will be viable in the future. I don't think there is any reason to suspect a conspiracy.
Cars aren't causing a significant part of "climate change ".
Sounds like we need levitating cars to help fight off climate change. 😂
@@user-ye6ft4ly7r Wtf are you talking about? Totota opened its fuel cell vehicle patents for free use... Google "Toyota hydrogen fuel cell patent" and you can find articles in a second.. I like Elon Musk too, but I don't think a blind believer like you are bright enough to truly understand his intelligence... lamo
It's crazy to imagine how the engineers managed to cut down the travel time by half every time. Costs and possible side effects aside, the feasibility of such an advancement is amazing.
Excellent video, very interesting. Small correction: Beijing-Shanghai is about a 2-2.5hr flight, not 4.5. But with airport security and check in, the train at 3.5hrs would still be faster in terms of total trip time :)
I love to travel by train. Sadly the ticket price is still forcing me to use airplanes and the new high speed trains tickets are predicted to cost 50% more. I would rather see more night trains with sleeping cabins so you can travel with more comfort,arrive early and rested. Super fast train can save you an hour or two, the night train gives you entire day while you sleep.
True, it's a big problem for residents. Tourists get to (ab)use the JR pass.
As if they got no time left
these trains are not build for overnight travel, so the price makes a lot of sense
The whole trip is about an hour, can we stay awake that long? I say yes.
I first saw the Shinkansen trains on TV in the 1960's and thought that they were the most fabulous things I'd ever seen. I finally got to travel on a Shinkansen 50 years later and I was beyond thrilled - it was a truly amazing experience as is the rest of Japan. Arigato Nihon 🇯🇵
Happy you got to fulfill a dream!
SO cool! I can't help but feel like we're getting really close to the point where people realize we don't need to commute at all. Just stay where you are and pop in to work virtually. It's not something I'm excited about, but it's probably an inevitability.
600 KPH - is just under 400 mph. This is Astounding. A DC10 travels at right around 600 mph. Just imagine what those traveling the Oregon Train would think!
Japanese construction company: Were gonna be finished 10 years ahead of scedule
German construction companies: Best we can do is 10 years behind
10 years? BER was once planned to open in 2007
To be fair... the initial estimates of 2027 have been pushed back from 2020... to 2025... to 2027.
The 2037 date isn't "ahead" of schedule, it's being moved UP in the schedule because Osaka wants in on the party. Chuo Maglev is being built by a private company, JR Central... so they were going to finish phase I to Nagoya, and then once they are profitable on Chuo, plan the Osaka extension... now the Government will step in and provide funding earlier so they can start Nagoya to Osaka right away.
czcams.com/video/zkMnxJF22O8/video.html
Chinese construction company CRRC: already finished the longest High-Speed Railway network in the Word in 2020, longer than the rest of Wordl all reunited,
next stape, build the Pan-eurasian High-Speed Railway network with Chinese standard,
@@Emilechen Very true. China's rail quantity it impressive... however, remember it still needs more. China's big... with ~10 MILLION km2. Compare that to Japan's 0.3 Million km2. When it comes to rail density, Japan has 9m of rail / sq km. to China's 3.4m / km2. Japan has a lot of its land uninhabitable as it's so mountainous. Tibet and the West, controlled by China, is also relatively difficult to build and inhospitable.
If we measure by population, China has 3 mm of HSR for every person... Japan has 29 mm / person.
It's not that China's accomplishment isn't great. It is... and it was built very quickly as well... but it's also a VERY large land mass with a LOT of people to plan and do the work.
What is most impressive about China's network is that they were to organize all these projects to be done at the same time.
Japan has few places that really NEED HSR after they build to Sapporo. There are a few secondary lines perhaps, ball the population centres will be connected apart from rural Shikoku and Okinawa (obviously)
" Were gonna be finished 10 years ahead of scedule
German construction companies"
Well... to be honest, they "10 year ahead of scedule" part is not even started. The bit that is started is 2 years behind sheduel.. Granted, this is mostly due to it being started 2 years later than they wanted.
What David Attenborough did to nature documentaries, the B1M will do to construction. I swear the voice is just as iconic!
Too bad it's marred by the annoying music.
Comparing an annoying ass commentator to attenborough.. Damn
@@crypsis5357 lol tell me how you really feel…
@@crypsis5357 I think this is the British voice, both commentators are soft! So if you love 1 you have like the other. If you hate one of the voices of the commentators then you dislike the other
@@RobinDobbie music is ok
Here in Germany a train is still on time with a delay up to 10 minutes. I had so much fun taking trains in Japan
Die deutsche bahn braucht 40 minuten für eine 10 minuten route
From 7 hours to 67 minutes! Amazing. Meanwhile, here in United States, with tens of trillions of dollars just sitting in computer screens, hedge funds, and stocks, we couldn’t even build a few miles of high speed rail in California.
Except that isn't exactly true: czcams.com/video/rcjr4jbGuJg/video.html and there is major construction and completed infrastructure on 119 mile section of the route: czcams.com/video/VgIa4uAnVVw/video.html
If anyone can do it, the Japanese can. I spent two weeks on the trains around Japan and it was a fantastic experience. Japan is a stunning place.
That last line, where you told that the decade after the opening of bullet train in Japan her economy grew from a mere 10% of the U.S. economy to world's 2nd largest, blew my mind. This definitely might be very beneficial for Japan.
Meanwhile we in India discuss whether we need HSR or not
@@s9ka972 not just India look at the UK, America & Australia.
@@MarkLeel One common thing among these countries US UK Australia & India ( irrespective of their economic condition ) is too much press freedom where press have liberty to criticise anything and everything which can influence masses and at the end since its a democracy , what people decides wins no matter it's good for the common man or not .
@RAHUL SINGH Remember that Japan was completely destroyed from the air raids it suffered in WW2. It was a rebuild period and thus there was always more potential for economic growth. Bullet train just accelerated it.
@@s9ka972 People should be allowed to discuss mega projects because they are so expensive. If leaders get away with anything, the country itself might go bankrupt and end up in a circle of poverty. Rather people should get proper education and vote responsibly( not like voting whoever gives alcohol).
Also in my opinion, there's no point in desperately gaining west's acknowledgement at the cost of our democratic rights. They will just laugh at how we turned into a autocratic state instead.
"In a short time there will be a tender for a space flight system through which from a platform, which may be installed in Córdoba, these ships will leave the atmosphere, go up to the stratosphere, and from there they will choose where they want to go, in such a way that in an hour and a half we can be in Japan, Korea or anywhere in the world and of course, later on another planet if life is detected“.
Carlos Menem (former president of Argentina), 1996.
Well made, thank you
The Shinkansen was my favourite part about traveling in Japan. Always felt like a giddy child whenever I stepped onboard. Can't wait to see this next step in it's evolution!
On our holiday in Japan in November 2019 (on the eve of covid) we took the Nozomi service from Tokyo to Hiroshima. It was a fantastic experience, so far ahead of what we have in the UK. Hopefully we will actually finish HS2, but that might be after Japan finishes the maglev.
@@owensmith7530 Japan will finish Maglev and move on to the next project and we will still be laying tracks for HS2 at that point.
Just looks at the delays with Queen Elizabeth line!
And HS2 due to speed is a lot more complicated project.
As someone who frequents the NYC-DC commute, I have been waiting for that high speed rail line for YEARS, when they first started talking about it. Would love to see the technology implemented sooner than later!
Amtrak is "high speed rail" depending on your definition of it
I would suggest you just forget about it…… it just ain’t gonna happen in this country. Build infrastructure is not something Americans care…….just look at Tokyo, Singapore, Shanghai, then look at Manhattan nowadays……sad. Btw, fix the @#$& weed smell around Penn Station, so nasty! WTH is going on with the NYC!
The Acela 21' trainsets are supposed to do it in 2hrs15mins on their nonstop trains. Might not officially be high speed rail, but definitely better than nothing.
@@eggheadegghead The U.S. is signing a massive infrastructure bill...
@@eggheadegghead americans actually do care about infrastructure...when its freeways
Over 500km in just 67minutes? A DREAM! For example here in germany. For round about 250km i need twice the time, and often the train arrives VERY late or just isnt there. I would love to have such highspeedtrains in Germany...but hey :,)
Germany literally almost had them, but chose to go with the ICE instead.
@@tristanridley1601 Germany had them. They were the inventors of that train technology. But due to an incident it has been sold to japan.
@@brunoldkatze3197 I just count "had them" as being used for lots of intercity transit.
I guess Japan's shape, being elongated like that makes it far more suited to rail networks that can connect multiple mega cities on the same line. and not having to branch out too much. You could have a massive super high speed line going from noth to south, and regular high speed rail that branches off it to connect smaller cities
I live in Australia and I wish we had something like this, I would explore this vast and beautiful country a lot more. I just hate air travel and long car rides.
I know exactly what you mean
I also want to see a Brisbane-Sydney-Canberra-Melbourne highspeed rail. C'mon Aussies we know you can do it!!
Your about to all be killed. I'd worry about that first
@@twist777hz PERTH
Doesn't even have to be super fast maglev trains like in China or Japan, just standard high speed rail connecting big Australian cities would be awesome already.
I once found an old newspaper cutting for early sixties in my college library almost trolling and ridiculing the construction of bullet trains saying its a "scheme of corruption" and a waste of time and money. THE REST IS HISTORY.
Unlike the maglev, the original shinkansen was publicly funded... so there probobly was quite a bit of coruption there
japan has had bullet trains for 60 years, while the US has had bullet trains for 0 years.
They're communist/socialist though, catering to the public instead of the individual.
@@alukuhito that's not communism or socialism that's a government's basic job you absolute dolt.
Japan was a Power starting in 1868, a Modern Power since 1895, a Great Power in 1900 and a Super-Power in 1931. It all came crashing down in 1945.
They sent their people to the west to study the modern tech before any of Asian country !
I still remember my country leader motto "look to the east" , meaning that to follow Japan work ethics and make Japan as role model. The irony is, he implemented automobile industri which make all people need to have vehicles as main transportation. So much as an individual need to has at least a car/motorcycle to move around. Meanwhile Japan priorities on public transportation like train, its efficiency, technology, timing and so forth. If the public transportation are good enough , there's no need to go into several years debt just to buy a car. So less jam, less trafficking, less air pollution.
Is it Malaysia? Because i'm a Malaysian and i think mahathir made this policy before
Once every 10 minutes is too slow in Japan?
In germany you gotta be lucky to have a train once an hour 😂😂
You're lucky you have trains at all!
In the US it is a good day to have a transit bus once an hour. Taking 3-4 hours each way to school or work is very common, even with the distance under 30 miles.
We dont have the Population density like Japan and we are much more decentralised. Which would make it much more difficult to obtain the Amount of passengers and the Infrastruktur even more expansive!
In Helsinki, the subway runs every two minutes, and you still see people running to catch the one at the station.
I live outside Helsinki and have three public transportation options:
bus (every five minutes)
fast and slow commuter train (every ten minutes)
subway (every two minutes)
Next year, there will also be a tram (every five minutes).
Shitboy that’s a joke right? Germany at its worst can’t be that bad.
The UK is spending £100 billion on normal trains that will never arrive
動画を作ってくれてありがとうございます！
Seeing that something this fantastic is controversial in Japan while we’re spending nearly double that on hs2 -which is only around half as quick and much shorter- is quite hilarious
Trains are extremely expensive to make as a system and Japan has had economic stagnation for the last 30 years.
SO while you may want to boast about their train network you are leaving out the fact most people in Japan live in a shoe box with nearly half of young people having to live with their parents with no opportunity to actually ever move out of the house.
SO would you prefer a better train network but have no opportunities.
@@bighands69 The average house in Japan is actually LARGER than it is in the UK. And the young in our country don’t have much of an opportunity to ever afford a home either when the average home is worth 10yrs salary. Our economy has only really grown because our population has but now that we’ve cut immigration we’ll experience more stagnation. In fact our economy isn’t even better than it was in ‘07 yet so I struggle to see the difference.
@@bighands69dumbest comment I’ve ever read. How in the hell does HSR have anything to do with what you mentioned?
I wish a major network would pick up B1M to do an hour episode on each of these videos. I love the content, just disappointed when I finish them that they’re over. Excellent content as always, keep up the great work!!
Great video. I lived in Japan for 4 years and loved the Shink. Your Beijing-Shanghai flight time is way out, though; it's about 2 hours 20 minutes - NOT 4 and-a-half.
Very good technology and more useful.
Thanks.
As someone who often uses this type of transportation, it's so surreal when you see buildings passing by in just 2 seconds. It's an experience that I'd probably won't get used to.
I commute on the tokaido Shinkansen. It's been three years. I still look out the window most of the time.
I will die to get this experience 😔
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Whilst the UK struggles to push forward with HS2, a train that only matches the speed of Japan's bullet trains, decades after them. Not to mention, at considerably higher cost even than the predicted cost of the new Maglev system in Japan.
Why are we so behind?
The worst part about the maglev shink is that apart from a blink-and-you'll-miss-it section between mountains in Nakatsugawa it is all underground. The coolest part of taking the shink from Nagoya to Tokyo is the amazing view of Fuji-san going through Shizuoka. The shink is already expensive too, so the two lines are gonna be cutting each other's lunch to get passengers, and with the recent push for remote meetings and remote work during Corona, things have changed a lot since the project was originally commissioned.
For tourists, sure, but I dont think daily commuters care that much about seeing Fuji-san every day.
Even though the workspace is now mostly online, front-up meet and greet still is prioritized in most businesses. And connecting major parts of the country in 60 minutes is something impressive and positive. My life would do a 180 if this would happen where I live lmao not in 100 years I see that happening.
Germany and Japan developed the Maglev train around 1970 with two different systems. Later, Germany sold entire technologies to China and helped them build one in Shanghai. Based on that technology, China has been developing a new Maglev train. Japanese are very matriculated, obsessed, and thorough about completing tech projects. In the past, a Japanese engineer said in the news article, "the maglev could go easily beyond 600km, but safety, reliability, and passenger's comfort are of the utmost importance." We are witnessing electric vehicles are becoming more demand and popular over gasoline engine cars. And generally, they are expensive now. Building Maglev trains are costly. But someday, we will see them all over the world?
Japan's Maglev train is recorded with a top speed of 602km/h. So it is already above 600km/h
China's Maglev train is recorded with a top speed of 600km/h. Close enough to the same.
China already has a working prototype...
@@dznuts123 japan has too , but because of that small town in middle ( whose politicians fought to make changes in the route ) the project was delayed by more than 5 years and the cost was tripled .
@@shukrantpatil "Based on that technology, China has been developing a new Maglev train."
I was refuting this claim, not questioning whether Japan has maglev or not.
Are you German? Lol
Don’t tell Elon Musk that Japan has already mastered full self driving. It’s called a train. Shhhh
When the train can come and pick me up and drop me off home at whatever time, then I’d be amazed. It is nice to go out drinking and not worry about driving home though.
americans are allergic to trains. beecaws cars has mour freedum and tryains tayk dat freedum.
@@hukama6911 Well said Ha Ha Ha
Rail transit has already developed ATO decades ago. Now ATO L4 UTO driverless operations are very common in newly built metros and APM.
I see you are a thunderfoot fan
to anybody who thinks this is a lot of money, the US military budget alone is over 10x this
Magnetic levitation, how fascinating! If I remember correctly, the last time I heard something about magnetic levitation´n such was in a video game called F-Zero which I used to play back then as a kid. Impressive!
The Japanese pavilion at expo 86 in Vancouver included a short maglev track...it was smooth...and very popular. It also shows how long they've been looking at it.
Wow
As a german it's so sad that the Maglev Transrapid was simply dropped. The Shanghai Line is the only Transrapid Maglev ever built for daily commercial use, and even if it's also considered a testtrack this was a masterpiece in engineering in my opinion. It's so sad to see the original testtrack in Emsland Germany rotting.
I'm very sad about that as well, it would've been awesome to see the biggest European cities connected by Transrapid.
Also, the test track is already dismantled and the test vehicle was left outside to grow moss :( Fortunately, there seems to be an interest group now to conserve what's left and build a museum, and the city there has shown some interest to display the vehicle as a showpiece. Better than nothing I guess :|
But people also forget, that the Shanghai track is loosing massive amounts of money. I don't think that public transport has to make a profit but it has to be somewhat sustainable.
ドイツの方法では、磁力が弱く、物体を1 cmしか浮上させることができない通常の導電性磁石を使用していたため、事故の危険性がありました。一方、地震の多い日本では磁力が強く、50年前に10cm浮く超電導リニアモーターカーの開発が始まり、世界最速の603km/hの速度記録を持つMagLevが開発されました。まもなく実行が開始されます。日本に来たら、ぜひ乗って時速500kmの世界を体験してください。
I think it’s going to be incredibly worth it especially considering it will cut travel time in half
Used to ride the train from Yokosuka to Tokyo. All can say is "Awsome!"
Thank you for the great content.😊😊
You're welcome, thanks for watching it!
I've been waiting forever for superconductor trains to go from science fiction to reality so I am really excited by this! I'll definitely be checking this out the next time I'm in Japan. 😊
China and japan are in an engineering race to see who can make the fastest train in the world, this new japanese train took it from a chinese train that went 360mph or so, which is about 550kmph about 2 years ago. It's really cool to see there are still national engineering competitions that aren't all just war machines.
@@Pistolita221 I will put my money on China to come out first with a network where trains can actually travel 600 km/h on a large commercial scale and not merely experimental basis.
the project would have been complete by now if it weren't for that small region in between as it delayed the project by 5 years and tripled the cost bruh .
The trip of my dreams = Japan. They are really something else. Love that culture. Wanna see it by foot, bike, road, train, water and snow.
Note that Japan already has a autonomous maglev line for commercial use. It’s called Linimo.