Showcasing Japanese high-speed rail trains in KL

VISITORS to Japan are normally awed by the country’s high-speed trains (Shinkansen), more so when they have the opportunity of riding in one of them.

The Shinkansen story is now 52 years old. It all began on Oct 1, 1964, when the first Japanese high-speed train brought the travel time between Osaka and Tokyo to less than four hours, a distance of 515km by rail.