By Hiroki on February 28, 2012 10:13 PM
The
special 300 Series shinkansen bullet train to be used in the train series' last
commercial operations for five days between Feb. 17 and March 16th.
The 300 Series
trains will retire after being put into services in 1992 to connect Tokyo and
Shin Osaka in two and a half hours with a speed of 270 kilometers per hour.
The
services were later expanded to connect the Japanese capital and Hakata in about
five hours.
Tickets for the last runs between Tokyo and Shin Osaka on March 16th were sold out in only around one minute after the company started to sell them
in the morning of Feb. 16th.
