Shinkansen GRAN CLASS Review / Japan's MOST EXPENSIVE Train Seat
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Hello and welcome back to Japan! Today we're travelling onboard what's widely regarded as the 'Worlds BEST Train Seat' from Sendai to Tokyo.
The Shinkansen E5 is JR's fastest train, operating on the Hayabusa services to Hokkaido in the far north. They have this special ultra luxury area, called Gran Class. And quite frankly, it's absolutely insane... I do hope you enjoy the video!
Date of Filming: 19/11/22
Camera: GoPro Hero 10 Black
Operator: JR East
Departure: Sendai, Japan
Arrival: Tokyo, Japan
Cost: Gran Class - 20,310 Yen (£120.30, €140.08, $147.84)
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The Shinkansen is indeed the safest, highest-quality and longest-running high-speed rail system in the world so far
Absolutely different class 😃
Ok this is gonna be good, Shinkansen is one of those trains you have to have done its such a good system
Absolutely 🤗
The more I see of Japan in these videos, the more I like the country and want to visit sometime.
Very enjoyable video. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! And yes, Japan is AMAZING 🤩
I was impressed by the E5 series too. So smooth and fast
Absolutely 🤗
I remember how amazing all the Shinkansen trips were when I was traveling around Japan (November to early December this year). I tried the Tokyo-Toyama, Osaka-Tokyo, and Tokyo- Shin-Hakodate Shinkansen's' among several other regional trains. Truly the marvel of the rail world.
Completely agree with you ☺️
very adequate and comfortable facilities for passengers, it is clear that Japan is the best in railways!
They do ☺️
@@NonstopEurotrip very true
Shinkansen bullet trains in Japan are still the best. Love to go to Japan and to ride on them.
You've got to do it Andrew ☺️
@@NonstopEurotripAfter sixty years also the safest.
Thanks for the great report! Yes, Shinkansen never disappoints me, only Japan can make a train travel be that superb. By the way, I really love the background music at the end of the video, where I may find it on web?
It's from the UA-cam audio library!
@@NonstopEurotrip Thank you! What's the name of the audio clip?
According to a newspaper article, the next-generation Shinkansen ALFA-X, which aims to operate at a speed of 360 km/h, is being operated mainly at night about twice a week on the Tohoku Shinkansen section. The maximum speed in the test is about 400km/h.
2022/10/28
Indeed yes!
I remember commenting about this in a previous video, fantastic to see this come to fruition.
Hope you enjoyed it!
Another great content. I always enjoyed watching it and also loved it once again. Thanks.👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰
Glad you enjoyed it 🚄🇯🇵
Great video, thanks for making this(and all your other ones, too!) and sharing it with us!
Video idea: Best (or worst, maybe?) train bar cars.
Thanks for the idea and glad you enjoyed the video! 😃
Great trip. Finally you try the highest class on Shinkansen. Because you mentioned your trip from Tokyo to Hakodate, can't wait for that, especially when the train approaching Seikan Tunnel. Also can't wait for your trip trying Sunrise Express and other train.
The tunnel is a bit of an anticlimax tbh 😅
When I was a kid we used to travel from Mariupol, Ukraine to Moscow, Russia twice a year on the train. It took 25 hours, and although it was Soviet Union, still sometimes there were clean trains with two beds cabins. Nothing like sleeping in bed in a moving train.
Слава Україні!
@@NonstopEurotrip Слава ЗСУ! Героям Слава!
@@antonizvekov1 смерть терористам!
Buen reporte como es costumbre, gracias por tu trabajo y por el paseo. Felicidades y mas viajes en 2023 🇺🇾
Thank you very much 🥰
Amazing video, mate !!!!!!!! I hope you are doing well …and this E5 series trainset looks magnificent and green car seat’s definitely looks like airline business class with oval shaped window. Definitely, enjoyed watching it. By the way, just became member once again and can’t wait to watch early access videos. 😊
Welcome back mate, glad you enjoyed the luxury experience 🙂🎅
After seeing your chinese bullet train videos. I am super happy that the indian government went for Japanese bullet train E5 hayabusa🙏🏽
Truly a dreamy train in every way.
What a experience! Great video!
Amazing Train !
Thanks a lot!
Great trip report
Thanks 🙏🏻
Food looks great! Good touch with the local beer 🍻
Thanks mate I chose it especially ☺️
Great video !!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Freaking shinkansen mate. What a lovely experience!
Absolutely 🤗
300kph and the beer was hardly shaking at all. Smooth.
Amazing eh 🙂
Talking about luxury trains in Japan, I wonder if you are going to take trains like Shikishima. Anyway, a great video! Cheers from Japan.
I have done a few. But I'll be back ☺️
レポートありがとうございます。とてもゆとりのある空間ですね。シェル型のシートは座席を倒すときに後ろの人に影響がないから素敵です😊
Exactly, that's what I like about them!
The best train yet! Great video!
It sure is!
Beautiful train
It sure is!
Can't wait to have the E5 shinkansens here in India!
When?!
@@NonstopEurotrip 2026-27 maybe, the under construction Mumbai Ahemdabad high speed railway will be using the Japanese E5 shinkansen.
I can't wait for this already😍😍
Watching in October '23. Love your video train reviews. Thank you.
Glad you like them!
😮What a fine train 😍👍
It really is!
Gran class & 320km/h !
Omiya has Japan's largest railway museum !
🥰🇯🇵🥰🇯🇵🥰🇯🇵
Thank you for reviewing this video as from japan!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Welcome to our Japanese exquisite express train!! I happened to watch your programs for my work, which has wide range of products included tickets of German railways. But I’ve not expected to your journey with Grand Class on Hayabusa!! Even for me(Japanese), I’ve not yet to experience it…just it’s common with me to move from Tokyo to Kansai on ordinary coach of Tokaido Shinkansen though😅
BTW, we have quite a passionate travel UA-camr here in Japan; Suit Travel(MUST SEE!). He also travels worldwide and his programs so knowledgeable…awesome!!
Thank for sharing 🙏🏻😊
is the food free with the ticket or you have to pay extra? i am actually planning to travel to japan and gonna buy green car jr pass
It's included in gran class, extra in green car
@@NonstopEurotrip thanks for the info
Is the old Shinkansen 500 still running on the Kodama Shin-Osaka - Hakata service? I liked the 500 a lot better than the 700 and managed to fluke catching it to Hiroshima.
Still running.
500 series still running. They're doing one in art deco anime on it over the years. Hello Kitty and EVA have been done on it. Hello Kitty is the current paint scheme on one of them. I think they might do one more repaint before they start to fully replace them over years 20 yrs in service so eventually they might get replaced in the future. Hope so it's a Gundam one for the final one. There's already one 500 being preserved I think.
I was chasing a 500 series, and when I finally gave up and got on an old 700, a 500 turned up opposite at the next station 😆😭
@@NonstopEurotrip 😭
There is also a lounge for gran class passengers at tokyo station.
But not at Sendai 😆
The E6 Komachi - Akita Shinkansen is coupled with E5 Hayabusa - Tohoku/Hokkaido Shinkansen enroute to Tōkyō at Morioka Station 盛岡駅
If you have a green JR pass then those E6 mini-shinkansen are best avoided if you are travelling on the mainline shinkansen route. The trains are narrower than a normal shinkansen and green car and normal class are both 2+2 seating, the E6 green car seats much narrower than normal. I would change at Morioka from the E6 -> E5 if travelling all the way in green car - but you need to be quick at Morioka!
I didn't ride an E6, but they certainly look cool 😎
I’ve ridden on both Akita Shinkansen E6 to Akita & Tōhoku Shinkansen E5 to Shin Aomori on ordinary car (akita 2 x 2; tōhoku/hokkaido 2 x 3), E6 train is considered as mini shinkansen and has slightly narrower loading gauge vs the normal shinkansen eg E5, E7, N700A etc
Brilliant video . Keep up the great work 👍
Thanks, will do!
We’ve just returned from Tokyo and have pinned the Gran Class in the “must do” list for when we return in 2026 😁
Wish we had these trains here in the USA
Really looking great job
Thank you! Cheers!
Loved the video and the high speed train, thank you
Glad you enjoyed it ☺️
The first class interior is attractive, but the small windows make me feel like I'm flying Delta One without a flatbed.
They REALLY don't seem that small when your onboard 🙂
my favourite and best train seat I've used is the gold leaf seat on the rocky mountaineer
A slightly different service tho!
Beautiful trip, industries with tries like fall!!!!!!
Link to Thom's travel channel "It will appear above": As it's nearly Xmas - Oh no it won't! (It wasn't in the "Show more" section, either). Many countries show signs, or make announcements, in English but this is done so much better in Japan. I was surprised that at that level of luxury, there was no USB socket(s) mentioned. (You may have to amend Eurotrip in your titles - LOL)
It's definitely there, but I've linked it in the description now too 👍🏻
@@AL5520 Hi Al. Thanks for the link.
Ah the joy of seeing a civilized train service.
Absolutely!!
Do the small airplane windows guarantee every passengers gets a full window view?
Exactly that! And perfect alignment when the seats are reversed too
The most comfortable train seat I remember is a second class seat on the renovated VIRM trains in the Netherlands, since those are the most comfortable second class seats in Limburg (the Belgian M7 double deck first class might be more comfortable but I have not tried it yet, just like the VIRM first class seats, but again I have not tried them yet, and I don't have the money to try them out right now)
Nice train , view , video👍
Thank you very much!
Parece muito bom mesmo! Confortável, e tem até distribuição de chinelos de pelúcia!" Trè chic"!!
🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🤩🤩🤩🤩
With the main table at your seat, can it be possible to pull out the smaller side table in the armrest as well …. … ?
Yes, it is!
I took the 'Bullet' train 40 years ago from Tokyo to Kyoto. The speedometer on the wall said 160 kph and I thought that was amazing. It was a regular fare, so I went to the bar car for a spell. Japan invests on transportation. Even then road traffic was horrific. Why the USA is slow to advance is government fusses too much being tight on the purse. One can travel but don't expect quiet, efficient and dependable timing. Freight lines and passenger share tracks and fright has priority.
It's a shame because there's so much potential. The car/plane mindset has to change in the US tho first. Japan is amazing, I love it!
@@NonstopEurotrip, consideribng the size of the USA and the size of most of its states, and also that there are many rural areas that require one to have a car in order to get around (for example, neither standard rail or HSR to the Northwest Territories here in Canada isn't possible do to the extreme cold making metal buckle and fall apart), your attitude expressed isn't going to win any converts, and will only serve to retrench the view of many die-hards that automobiles and planes are the way to go, but trains aren't (and I say this as a [North] American citizen who wants to see HSR be built across [North] America.)
Proper luxury train travel. Great train and exactly what you hope for with at seat dining..
Yes indeed Mark 🫡
Next time you come to Japan again, I want you to feature the Kurobe Gorge seen from the tram...
Where is this?
@@NonstopEurotrip It's in Toyama Prefecture, which is also home to Kurobe Dam, one of the country's biggest dams…
And google 'KUROBE GORGE RAILWAY Official site" and you can purchase the trolley train ticket online.
I've never been there, but watching UA-cam videos about "Kurobe Gorge", it seems that the seats on the right side of the direction of travel can enjoy the view.
Ahh japan is a perfect country in Asia 😼 also a proud of world
Isn't it just 😂
The music you used, sounds like the boarding music used by EVA Airways 😁
Haha funny 😂
This is awesome 👍👋💚🎄🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲🙏
Thank you! Cheers!
Comparing with European first class with Japanese first class. Which is the top notch one?
This, and Frecciarossa executive class are on a par with each other 🙂
Merry Christmas
Same to you!
Epic
It's Jack Torr!!!
5:36 Actually I read that when a wheelchair-bound passenger once asked for platforms to be built more level with trains (so that you don't have to trouble railway staff to unfold ramps for her), netizens accused her of being self-centred & told her to fork out more money on a taxi instead of riding the train
That's terrible!
The best seat I've ever had on a train was in Trenitalia's Executive Class from Milan to Rome in Janaury 2024.
Also an excellent seat 💺👌🏻
@NonstopEurotrip - you asked what's the best train seat you've ever found? At the end of Feb 24 we travelled on the new Brightline train from Orlando to Miami in Premier Class. The seat was like being hugged by a Cadillac! Big, cream leather thing with loads of leg room, a few seat goodies, a proper table and endless food and drink included in the price.
I'll have to try it soon 🤠
@@NonstopEurotrip book premium from Orlando and you get access to the premium lounge. Easily one of the best I've ever experienced.
静寂性がすばらしいね～(*´ω｀*)✨
😍😍😍
I want to drive this vehicle by myself.
The OG.
Absolutely 😁💯
maybe u could try indonesian train first class. it is like business class on plane but with the disadvantage of limitation entertaiment on VOD and tasty food for yall european.
Later in the year I will for sure 🙂
halloo 🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨 salam dari Indonesia,, kami punya kereta keren keren juga🤣🤣🤣🤣
Not yet you don't 😆
Japan high-speed rail = Alligator Gar😂
🐊😆
JR Pass (300€) seem to me similary poor as Interrail during peak time(summer etc.) in Europe. As I understand Standard class is 78€, while Gold class is 140€. But you get charged 90 instead of 62€ - quite a ripp-off !
As I explained, it's not meant for doing what I did. I just did it for the video. I could have ridden in the green car first class on this train for totally free. This is the only class you have to pay any additional fees for.
@@NonstopEurotrip Thank you for the answer. I thought you travel in standard/basic/ordinary class. But in this case - from "intermediate" to "first class" the surcharge is even worse ...
However - quite an impressive product. I'd love to enjoy such stuff one day ...
Couple an E6 to an E5 and you'll end up with 1!
Indeed 😊
Whats the difference between E5 and E6 series. In India between Ahmedabad and Mumbai we are getting E5 Series train
E6 is newer, but slower
The train and the seat really are fantastic but if you have a green car JR pass then you are paying a huge supplement to sit in Gran class - 14,260Y EXTRA when the difference from green -> Gran class if you were buying cash tickets is only 5,240Y. The price of the 7 day green car pass (for 7 DAYS unlimited travel) is only 3x the price of that supplement. This makes it very bad value for green car JR pass holders.
I agree. But I wanted to film it and I more than got my value out of my JR pass. Well over £1000 saved.
Nice video!
Please try Chinese CR400 trains business class and compare them to Shinkansen
As soon as possible. COVID measures permitting!
ゴージャスな客車は、敢えてゆっくり乗りたい。早いと勿体ない。ゆっくり行こうぜ。
I'll do that too ☺️
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Happy Christmas to you too Pedro I hope you had a good day! 🎄🎅
I have a high desire to visit Japan but am concerned that because I don’t consume seafood at all if I will struggle to find enough Western foods and meat 🤔
Honestly you'll be fine Rob, there are plenty of noodle dishes with beef and pork, and last resort McDonalds 😅
But in my experience of about a month in Tokyo not many dishes didn’t have seaweed added to them. I was assured that it would make the hair regrow on the top of my head and my wife very happy in bed. Not sure about either, actually.
Oh, by the way, is there a dining-car in these SHINKANSEN-Sen trains ?
Nope. Just a trolley service
10:49, hmm, dining on a train at 400 km/h+ maybe?
Not yet 😜
I'm from INDONESIA
Wooooo 😅
13:08 Thalys
RIP to those lower Japan Rail Pass prices.
Ikr 😢
Why must passengers wait in the designated red box area, and not just behind the yellow line 🔃?
So you're not in the way of people getting off and are in the right place to board 🛹
Indonesia has a high speed railway made in china but iam not sure it is safer than japanese high speed train. after taking Mass Rapid Train made in japan it is securest.
Not open yet!
Muito lindo trem bala da China 🇨🇳 bom dia
🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵
It's Hayabusa 320km\h🚅🚅🚅
As mentioned in the video
I’ve tried both Japanese Shinkansen (E5 and E3) and Chinese Fuxing and I have to say that for me fuxing felt better. It was much faster (Beijing South - Nanjing South 1018 km in 3h13min - nothing comes even close to this in Japan), !more punctual! even though both trains are very reliable and the ride quality was a bit better on Fuxing.
I hope to compare soon 😁
@@NonstopEurotrip Are you planning to go to China?
@@altavelmcnamara 🤞🏻🤞🏻🤞🏻
I like a higher sitting position than this train
On the roof?
신칸선 앞머리가 비정상적으로 긴 이유는 터널설계실패 때문이다 터널설게가 잘못되어 입출입시 폭발음이 생기기때문이다 혹자들은 바람의 저항을 줄이기 위해서라는데 세계 고속철중 저렇게 앞머리가 비정상적으로 긴 나라는 일본뿐이다
Makes them look ultra cool 😎
それは間違いですね。実は日本の鉄道は欧米の車両より大きく幅3.4 m × 高さ4.5 ｍ×長さ25mもある。日本人が韓国や欧米に行くと電車の小ささに驚きます。国土の7割以上が山である日本では東京-札幌1200kmを4時間以下にするには直線的でスラブ軌道の先進的な線路が必要であり、特に北陸新幹線の線路はトンネル33％、橋梁14％、高架橋52％、路盤1％となっています。よって建設費が大きくなります。そのためトンネルの断面積をできるだけ小さくし、車両のほうで対応することになったのです。日本人が韓国や欧米に行くと路盤の上を揺れながら走るので在来線と感じるようです。微気圧波に対応するため車両の気密性は韓国や欧米よりはるかに高く、航空機と同等であり、新幹線が航空機に似ている理由です。また長いノーズにより乗り心地も優れています。まぁ首都圏だけで韓国の鉄道総延長距離を超え、国土に3万km以上の鉄道総延長距離を誇り、高速鉄道を現在でも1000km以上を建設中の国がトンネル問題なんて・・・半世紀前には結論を出していますよ 日本では1996年に300xが443kmを記録してます。20年遅れですね。
絶望を教えてあげるよ、韓国の鉄道総延長距離って日本の"首都圏以下"なんですね。インフラ後進国ですね。😁
@@三枚マスク 무슨 개소리를 길게 싸지르냐
신칸선머리부분이 비정상으로 긴 이유가 터널설계 착오로 인한 폭발음이 생기기때문이라는데 산은 일본보다 한국이 훨씬 많다 자네 한국 안와봤지? 세계의 고속철을 봐라 신칸선처럼 머리가 비정상적으로 긴 나라가 있냐? 그리고 철도율이 떨어지면 인프라부족이냐? 일본의 철도들은 90%가 적자다 쿠소야로~!!
@@루테나
韓国人はすぐに嘘をつくのですね。あと理系ではないようだ。
国土の山地の割合は日本のほうが"高い"です。（日本は75％以上、韓国は70％）実は韓国は山が多いものの、標高1000m以上の山は国土の15％に過ぎず、65％以上は 500m以下の低い山です。逆に日本は標高500m以上の山が国土の30％以上と険しさもはるかに日本のほうが厳しいです。常識的に考えて2000～3000m級がそこらへんにある日本と比べることがおかしいと思うのですが・・・。同じ理由で日本の高速道路や高速鉄道はほとんど高架橋とトンネルですよ。
トンネル微気圧波問題でノーズが長くなったのであれば300系や400系、800系、E2系やE7系はどう説明しますか？（騒音基準をクリア済み）
正解をいうと"乗り心地改善"と"車内騒音の低減"が理由なんです。新幹線は揺れと騒音は諸外国よりずっと少ないです。諸外国と大きく違い新幹線は全て専用路線です、踏切もありませんし、狭い区間もありません。空力的に有利な形状を追求できるのです。F1のノーズ形状と同じですね。欧州や韓国では専用線ではないので信号がアナログな区間や踏切、急なカーブがあるため、運転士が目視確認できるよう先頭部分が短く、運転台のガラスを立てて視界確保が必要になります。日本でも例えば在来線を走る400系やE3系はノーズは短いです。E5系は特別な車両です。E954形電車をもとに360kmの運行を目標に作られました。札幌-東京の距離約1200kmを4時間以下で常時運行することは長距離を常時360kmで走行する必要があります。最高速度だけの他の高速鉄道にはできないでしょう。
ノーズの長さは400km、500kmの速度域で優れた乗り心地と騒音の低減が目的なのです。建設中のリニアもトンネルの断面ははるかに大きいがノーズは長いです、リニアに関しては9割トンネルです。
コロナ化の赤字の収支出されてもね、各社の収支は改善していますね。まぁ韓国みたいに専用線引けず駅間時間を短縮できず、ソウルへの一極集中を招くような失敗は犯さないですよｗｗｗ出生率が没落するので😁
はい論破
@@三枚マスク 네놈 참 한가하네 내가 거짓말한게 뭐냐? 높은 산이든 낮은산이든 터널은 마찬가지로 뚫어야한다 승차감때문에 머리부분을 길게 했다고? ㅎㅎ 웃게만들지 마라 터널설계 실패라니까~ 그리고 일본철도는 세계에서 제일 비싸지만 90%가 적자다 알겠냐 쿠소야로~!!
First I can see that are slaves in masks.
The Japanese have worn masks for years. It's nothing new. Personal choice.
November 2022 and everybody on board is wearing a face diaper. Will it ever end?
Japanese often wore masks on trains even pre-COVID
They did it long before covid. Respect personal choice.
Probably, hopefully, next spring. When death /long covid will not come from the exhalations of the free breathers.
@@NonstopEurotrip They can wear a bed sheet wrapped around their head. Just don't insist that I do it too. Personal choice, remember?
@@sandydennylives1392 If the free breathers have covid, yet they are exhaling which means they are alive, then covid can't be that bad. Ever had a cold before? The same type of people that die from having covid are the same type that die from having the flu/cold.