Shinkansen: Quick Facts

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A Shinkansen bullet train crosses a steel bridge in the foreground, with snow-capped Mount Fuji rising in the background under a clear blue sky in central Honshu, Japan.

Tsubasa Shinkansen bullet train traveling through green fields and rural landscape with forested hills in Yonezawa, Japan.

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