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Japan’s Shinkansen train operators dream up ideas to attract passengers

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JR Tokai allows passengers to charter a train car for various purposes such as having a wedding ceremony. Read more at straitstimes.com.

TOKYO - Railway companies are using lessons learned from a decline in passenger numbers during the Covid-19 pandemic, to dream up ways to get more people to ride the Shinkansen bullet trains.

Major travel agency JTB Corp and others offer the special package services, except during peak times such as the Bon holiday in summer.However, the package price is lower than the cost of purchasing all seats in a single car, which has at most 100 seats. Thinking that making the trip with friends fulfilling because they had spent time together for six years, Tomoharu Date, then a student in his final year, submitted an application to JR Tokai.

“People think of the Shinkansen as just a mode of transportation, but I hope passengers will enjoy these types of trips,” said Ukyo Oe, a 25-year-old JR Tokai staff who is in charge of the service.JR East in March started a service called Train Desk with an eye on expanding teleworking and holding online meetings in trains.

 

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