In the videos that can see to continuation, can see trains in the Japanese city of Kamakura, that was the ancient capital of Japan to Fujisawa. It is a railway built in 1902.

The people knows it with the name of "Enoden" and is one of the most famous trams of Japan.

To continuation put you the list of reproduction of all the videos, 21 videos in total but short, each one will reproduce when finishing another. I expect that they like you.

The Balkan Flexipass is a note combined of train that can use during a month in the railways of Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Serbia, Montenegro and Macedonia. Treat of a much more economic alternative that the passes InterRail to travel by this zone of Europe.

The Flexipass costs for 5, 10 or 15 days inside the month selected. If we purchased the one of five days, can travel as much as want (or can) during five days (consecutive or no) inside the month selected.

It wants to say that if in a same day take four trains to do trayectos short, for example, only consume a day. The nocturnal trains consider part of the following day if they go out from the seven of the afternoon. Therefore we can take a nocturnal train and realise trayectos additional the next day, before the 19 hours, consuming only a day.

The FlexiPass can purchase in the taquillas of the stations of train of the countries adheridos, there is not problem for purchasing it without antelación. The places that offer them by Internet are not recommended due to the fact that generally offer the passes of first class and besides load a generous commission, resulting muchísimo more expensive.

The prices of the FlexiPass of 5 days in second class are 51 euros for lower of 26 years and 86 euros for adults (or his equivalent in local coin).

In some trains (for example some nocturnal international, InterCity, etc.) It is necessary to pay a small supplement by the reservation of the seat. If want to travel in bunk also is necessary to pay the cost of the same. The prices of the bunks are quite economic compared with western Europe, and in trayectos nocturnal very long can be recommended do with one.

The Balkan FlexiPass consist in a cartilla where appears reviewed the date of start, in which the traveller has to fill up the date and route of each trayecto with ink, so that the revisores can verify his validity.

This note is the best form to discover the Balkans in train, one of the most unknown zones of Europe to the margin of the tourist destinations of Greece and Turkey. If they take advantage of the nocturnal trains, can do a ‘tour' complete by the zone with a ridiculous expense in comparison to other alternatives, from the Acrópolis until the delta of the Danubio.

Special quotation deserves the possibility to visit all Turkey. Al margin to discover rincones unknown of this immense country, is an alternative to arrive to countries like Armenia, Azerbayán or Syria to the purest adventurous style.

The Shinkansen (新幹線, Shinkansen) is the rail network of high speed of Japan, operated by the company Japan Railways. Empezo To operate in 1964 with the line Tōkaidō Shinkansen, and from that, the network has gone expanding to connect the main part of the cities of the islands of Honshū and Kyūshū, with speeds of until 300 km/h. The maximum speeds that have achieved in experimental trips have been of 443 km/h.

The word Shinkansen means literally New “ Line Troncal” and refer strictly to the traced of the roads, whereas the properly said trains designate officially “Super Expresos” (超特急, chō-tokkyū), although this distinction is rare even in the own Japan. On the contrary of the original network, the Shinkansen uses the width of normal road (1.435 mm), and cost of tunnels and viaducts to cross obstacles, instead of contornearlos.

History

Japan was the first country in building roads férreas especially devoted for the high speed. Because of the mountainous nature of big part of the country, the existent lines presented a width of narrow road (1.067 mm) and that they could not be adapted to upper speeds, in addition to a big traffic that prevented to add more trains. Like consequence, Japan had a main need of a new system of lines that other countries, where the existent rail systems had a potential of main improvement.

First proposals

The popular name of Train Bleats is a western translation of the Japanese term dangan ressha (弾丸列車), an apodo that gave him to the project when still was in phase of debate, in the years 30. The name remained because of the fact that the locomotives Shinkansen have a figure rounded that remembers a bullet, and to his high speed.

The name “Shinkansen” used formally for the first time in 1940, in a proposal of line of passengers and commodities of width standard between Tokyo and Shimonoseki, using electrical locomotives and to steam to a maximum speed of 200 km/h (the double of the speed of the Japanese train faster of that then). Along the three following years, the Ministry of the Railways esbozó plans more ambitious to extend the line until Peking (through a tunnel until Korea) and until Singapore, and build connections to the Railway Transiberiano and other Asian lines. These plans desestimaron officially in 1943, to measure that the position of Japan in the Second World War began to deteriorarse. In spite of all this, initiated some buildings, so much is so a lot of tunnels of the current Shinkansen date of the time of the war.

Building

After the defeat of Japan in 1945, the trains of high speed were forgotten during some years. However, around the middle of the 50, the main line of Tōkaidō between the capital and Osaka already was operand to his maximum capacity, and the Ministry of the Railways decided to reopen the Project Shinkansen. The governmental approval arrived in 1958, and the building of the first stretch of the Tōkaidō Shinkansen between Tokyo and Osaka initiated in 1959. Big part of the building was funded with a loan of 80 million dollars of the World Bank. In 1962 open in Odawara a stretch of proofs of the material rodante, that today forms part of the main line.

The Tōkaidō Shinkansen was inaugurated the 1 of April of 1964, just in time for the Olympic Games of Tokyo 1964. It was an immediate success, arriving to the mark of the 100 million passengers in less than three years the 13 of July of 1967 and to the one thousand million passengers in 1976. For the Expo ‘70 of Osaka entered sixteen new trains.

The first trains Shinkansen achieved speeds of until 210 km/h, that later would increase to 220 km/h. Some of these trains, with his classical appearance of nose of bullet, still are in circulation.

Expansion of the network

This initial success allowed to extend the first line west, to Hiroshima and Fukuoka (the line Sanyo Shinkansen), that completed in 1975.

The Prime minister Kakuei Tanaka was a fervent adherent of the Shinkansen, and his government proposed an extensive network of parallel lines to the majority of the conventional lines of Japan. Following this plan built two new lines, the calls Tōhoku Shinkansen and Jōetsu Shinkansen. However, others so many lines planned delayed or withdrew completely when the National Railways of Japan increased his debts, largely because of the high costs of building of the network Shinkansen. To beginnings of the 80, the Japan National Railways was practically insolvent, what carried to his privatisation in 1987.

In spite of this situation, the development of the Shinkansen continued. The models that came followed the first type, generally each one with his distinctive appearance. The trains Shinkansen circulate to speeds of until 300 km/h, what places them between the fastest trains of the world, together with the TGV and Eurostar French, the Italian Eurostar Italia, the German ICE, the surcoreano KTX and the BIRD in Spain.

From 1970, it has gone developing the Chūō Shinkansen, a train of magnetic levitation or maglev, designed to circulate between Tokyo and Osaka. The 2 of December of 2003, a group of 3 vehiculos achieved the world-wide record of speed: 581 km/h. Nevertheless, the project was reduced to join only Tokyo and Nagoya.

In 2003, the JR Central informed that the averages of the times of arrival of the Shinkansen had a delay of near of 0,1 minutes (6 seconds) in relation to the due hour in the schedule. This includes all the errors and natural and human accidents, and calculated between all the near of 160.000 trips that effected the Shinkansen. The previous record dated of 1997 and was of 0,3 minutes (18 seconds). Japan celebrated the 40 anniversary of the trains of high speed in 2004, where only the line Tōkaidō Shinkansen transported 4.160 million passengers. As Japanrail.com, the whole of the network Shinkansen has transported near of 6 one thousand million passengers.

Future

Because of the inherent problems to the acoustic pollution, the increase of the maximum speed is being increasingly difficult, particularly in the phenomenon of the “boom of the tunnel”, that appears when the trains go in in tunnels to a high speed. In spite of this, exist programados two increases of speed, one to 350 km/h for the new trains of the line Sanyō, and another to 360 km/h using the trains FASTECH 360, at present in phase of proofs in the line Tōhoku Shinkansen.

The line Kyūshū Shinkansen between Kagoshima and Yatsushiro opened in March of 2004. Foresee that they inaugurate more extensions, the lines Hakata-Yatsushiro and Hachinohe-Aomori for 2010 and the line Nagano-Kanazawa in 2014. Also they exist plans on a long-term basis to extend the network: the Hokkaidō Shinkansen from Aomori until Sapporo (through the Tunnel Seikan) and the line Kyūshū Shinkansen until Nagasaki, in addition to completing the connection between Kanazawa and Osaka, although you do not expect that any of these projects was completed before 2020.

The project of the line Narita Shinkansen to connect Tokyo to the International Airport of Narita, initiated in the decade of 1970 but interrupted in 1983 after protests of the owners of the terrains, was officially cancelled and deleted of the Basic Plan that delineaba the building of the Shinkansen. Parts of the traced planned will use for the line Narita Rapid Railway (NRR) that will open in 2010. Although the NRR will use a width of normal road, will not build in accordance with the specifications Shinkansen neither is feasible that convert , in a future, in a line Shinkansen.

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