京都から東京まで日本最速の新幹線に乗る

京都から東京まで日本最速の新幹線に乗る

Hi, everyone.
I’m Mark from Travelshorts. This is my daughter Holly.
That’s my son, Matthew. And today we’re going to be travelling
to Tokyo from Kyoto, where we are now on the Shinkansen bullet train. But first we’re going to get breakfast. We’ve finished our breakfast. We’re back in the room. We packed our bags, and now it’s
time to go to Kyoto Train Station. You might have noticed when we did
the intro, behind us, there were some dinosaurs. That’s who actually checks
you in and out of the hotel. This is a robotic dinosaur hotel. Can you believe that? If you want to see a full tour of this
hotel, we did that when we arrived in Kyoto, two episodes back. So if you check back there,
you’ll get to see our room and around the hotel itself and the whole checking
procedures done by those robotic dinosaurs. Anyway, it’s time to grab our bags and go
to Kyoto Station to catch our Shinkansen. Another reason I picked this hotel,
not just for the robotic dinosaurs, is it’s almost across the road
from Kyoto Station because I didn’t want to be carrying our bags big distances between the train
station and our hotel. Anyway, we’ll see you when
we’re at the train station. So we made it into Kyoto Station
to the Shinkansen Lines. Here’s the departures
board right behind me. Ours hadn’t come up yet. We’re on the 9:48,
Nozomi train going to Tokyo. I don’t know if I recorded it properly,
but it was really chaotic coming in through the gates. What we needed to do was scan the QR
codes on our tickets that I printed out. And then as you walk through the ticket
machine, it printed out your seat reservation, which we then
picked up and carried on walking. But like I said, it was
really chaotic, really busy. Camera wasn’t functioning properly. Was there a funny angle? So I don’t think that was
recorded, unfortunately. Our train still isn’t on the board just yet,
but I reckon it will be in a few minutes. The last one on the board is 9:33. Just give you an idea of the time. It is currently 9:13 in the morning,
so we’ve got a little over half an hour to go. Ordinarily, if we hadn’t had breakfast,
we’d be looking for some Ekibens to buy some food on the train along the way. But because we just had breakfast, we’re
not going to need to eat on this train. It’s due to arrive into Tokyo just after
midday, so we’ll just have lunch in Tokyo when we get there. Once we’re on board the train,
I’ll tell you how I got the tickets for the Shikansen today
and the easiest way to do that. As I said, when we came through the gates,
this is what printed out. It’s our seat reservation tickets. You can see we’re on the Nozomi 86. We’re in car 12, seat A1, A2, and A3. Ours has it just appeared on the board platform 11. When you get your seat reservations, you’re given a carriage number and seat numbers. If you look along the platform,
you can find which carriage is. So we’re in carriage 12. So it’s not only on the floor there,
it’s only on the floor there. It’s also on the sign and tells
you which way you can board. So we’re in Seats number one. So we’re going to board
from the left-hand side. If we were from 16 or less,
up to about 10, we would board from the right-hand side.
And then you queue it, these grey sections here for where you’re going to board
your section of the carriage. So we’ve made it on board our
train going from Kyoto to Tokyo. Once we get a move on,
I’ll do a complete tour around the carriage, the seats, and everything
there is to see on this Shinkansen. But before we do go, though,
I just wanted to point out that if you’re bringing oversize luggage like we’re
doing, you need to reserve these three or those two back seats in every carriage. When you come to book them online,
it will say, Do you need luggage? And then you just click that option
and they will automatically reserve you these seats. Our cases are right behind us there. But once we get going,
I’ll tell you how we went about booking these tickets for the Shinkansen today. And we’re off Welcome to the Shinkansen. This is the Nozomi Super Express,
bound for Tokyo. We will be stopping at Nagoya,
Shin-Yokahama, and Shilikawa Station. Before arriving in Tokyo Now that we’ve set off from Tokyo, I think I’ll give you a bit of a seat tour
to see what the seats are like on the Shinkansen.
There’s a three and two configuration. We’re obviously in the
three configuration. There is plenty of room. My seat is tilted all the way back
at the moment, and I can’t even touch the seating front just to give you an idea
of how much leg room there is and how far in front the seat is.
Look at that. That’s me outstretched.
Can’t reach. There’s a little map to show
you which direction we’re going. We’re going to Tokyo, so that’s that way. Our bathroom is behind us here. We’ll do a tour of the bathroom shortly. Give you some more information on here,
what to do in case of emergency. Telling you about the power
outlets on the seats. I’ll show you that now. So this power outlet is on the handrest. You can see it there. There is no USB power charging
on board, only plug sockets. This here controls the seat pitch. So I’ll show you the seat pitch,
how far it goes back. You can see that it’s really far. So you can get a good sleep, I think,
on this seat coming towards Tokyo. I’m not going to lean it that far back. It’s a bit too far. It’s uncomfortable if you just want
to sit and look out the window. So I’ll do it the same as Matthew’s. I’ve just put it further forward
into a more comfortable position. You see there’s Matthew, there’s Holly. There is also WiFi on board. Above all the seats all around
the carriage on both sides, there’s plenty of space to put your bags,
but you are not allowed to use oversize luggage or large suitcases over there. For oversize luggage, like I mentioned,
you have to reserve an oversize luggage seat, which is where we’re sitting today. I’ll show you what that oversize
luggage section looks like now. As you can see, behind the back seat, this
is where we store the oversize luggage. So only people who have reserved these
back seats can store their luggage there. So if you’re wondering where I purchased
the tickets for today’s Shinkansen journey, it was via the website klook.com They are the main places where you can buy
Shinkansen tickets other than the official eX website run by the
Japanese train company. Sometimes there’s issues on there
with foreign credit cards. So I just went straight to Klook.com and purchased my tickets
directly from them. When you are selecting
your tickets from Klook.com it gives you the option, like we
did today, to select oversize baggage. It’s no additional cost for them. It’s when you’re going through
the checkout procedures after you selected which train you want to go on,
you just select Oversize Bagage and they will automatically allocate you these back
seats with an oversize baggage area behind you. Also on this train from Kyoto to Tokyo, you can click on Mount Fuji view. If you are going in this direction,
it’s best to sit on the left-hand side because on a clear day,
you will get a view of Mount Fuji. Unfortunately, because we want to sit
in a row of three, we’re on the right-hand side, so we will get to miss that. But to be honest,
it is rather cloudy today, so the chance of seeing it are very slim. What I think I will do,
if it does clear up on the way to Tokyo a little bit more, I will try to go on one
of the windows in between the carriages to see if we can see that. And if I do, I will film
it for you guys to see. And just one last thing about Klook.com I’m not sponsored by them at all,
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our tickets for the Shinkansen today. When those other bullet trains
go past it, it’s a blur. They’d gone in about two seconds. I think Holly’s pretty tired already.
Are you? Tired? Yeah. If you want to know any more information
about this Shinkansen, they have QR codes here as well. You can stand that one
for English information. There you go if you want to see it now. I’ll leave it on the screen
for a few seconds. So today’s journey to Tokyo from Kyoto
is due to take about 2 hours, 15 minutes. We are scheduled to arrive at 12:03, so midday. Once we do get into Tokyo,
we’re going to take the subway towards our hotel, which is the Asakusa view. So the subway will have to go from Tokyo
station all the way to Asakusa station. Asakusa is really famous for the
Sensoji Temple and also the Sky Tower. As I mentioned,
as we came into the station, these got printed out when we went through
the entry barriers after scanning our QR codes that we got from Klook. It’s just our seat reservation So you can
see we’re on the Nozomi 86, car 12, seats A1, seats 1A, 1B, and 1C. Depart in Kyoto, 9:48,
arriving in Tokyo 12:03. I think it’s time to walk around
and go for a little explore. I’m going to head backwards. So from garage 12, where we are now,
down to 11, and take a little look at the bathroom area,
see what they’re like, because I know you want to see what the bathroom looks like. Okay, so this is a pretty big bathroom. It’s going to close it. Whats going on?. Will not let me close. Make sure that’s locked
before I do anything. So this looks like a very
big bathroom on board. It must be the disabled one. So we have a toilet. Toilet paper, just like every Japanese
toilet, it’s got a bidet function there. Sink next to the toilet. It’s like a place to put your baby to sit
down if you’re there while you’re in the bathroom. Changing station there. Got a sink there. Yeah, this is a very big
bathroom for a train. Really impressive. If you can be impressed
by a train toilet anyway. And then hopefully to open it. Release that and click open. And close after we’ve finished. There’s windows in between the carriages. This is where I’m going to come to see the
Mount Fuji view if it’s nice and clear. And there’s also a sink just
in the corridor by the bathrooms to wash your hands here as well. Well, let’s go back to our
seats to see Matthew and Holly. And also a trash bin,
put your rubbish there. And here’s a better view down our carriage. You can see the three and two
configuration on your overhead storage. Each carriage is pretty long. I think there’s about 20
something rows on each one. There’s no buffet car on board or
no way you can buy food or drink. So make sure you bring it with you. Like I said,
normally you can get an Ekiben in the station before you board the train. But because we’ve had breakfast,
there’s no need in us doing that because we’ll just get lunch in Tokyo. But we have brought plenty
of drinks with us for the ride. Also, as we’re now journeying through
the Japanese countryside, I thought it’d be a good time to tell you
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in the description down below, or you can scan the QR code on the screen now. Once again, 100% free. I won’t even ask you for your email address We’ve just arrived at our first station along the route, which is Nagoya Station. And at each stop it’s a maximum of about two minutes,
so that’s enough time. Just get everybody off quickly
and everybody on quickly. It looks, I don’t know if you can see
on the window here, that it’s just starting to rain
where we are here in Nagoya. It has actually given rain in Tokyo today
as well, which It’s a little bit disappointing. But what are you going to do? We are going to Tokyo, there’s no other option. We’ve got our waterproof jackets in our
hand luggage here, so hopefully it shouldn’t be too bad. We are going up the Tokyo sky tree later. If there’s rain and clouds, then probably
the view isn’t going to be the best. But it is still the tallest tower
in Japan, so at least that’s a good experience. No sooner as we’ve arrived,
we’re now departing Nagoya station. For those people that are wondering how
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in every country we visited since 2023. I thought I’d just come and look at the
other bathroom that’s on board as well. The one we looked at previously was
the family bathroom or disabled bathroom. This is a regular,
really small bathroom on board. You’ve just got a toilet, and a sink, and that is it. It’s 11:35, which means we got about half an hour before we arrive into Tokyo Station. They have just come on the loud speaker to announce we’re about to arrive at Yokohama Station. Once we leave Yokohama, that’s the last stop we’re going to be doing until we go all the way to Tokyo. We just departed Shin-Yokohama Station,
which means we’ll be arriving in Tokyo in just over 20 minutes. We’ll soon stop at Shinagawa Station. Passengers getting off here
should prepare to disembark. I made a mistake. Yokohama wasn’t the penultimate
stop before Tokyo. It’s Shinagawa, which is
where we’re stopping now. After we leave Shinagawa,
it’s only going to be about another eight minutes before we arrive in Tokyo. It goes without saying,
because of the weather outside, we didn’t get a chance to view Mount Fuji
from the left side of the train. That’s it.
The penultimate station, next stop, Tokyo. It’s really starting to rain now. We’ve come to Tokyo. Before you leave the train as well,
you need to just put your seat back to its full, upright position. Here we are arriving at Tokyo Station. We’ve arrived into Tokyo Station. That took just over 2
hours to get from Kyoto. Now we need to go on the subway lines. To get to them, we go
down those steps there. First one we need to go
on is the Yamunote Line. Now we’re going to look
for the Yamunote Line after we leave the Shinkansen area of the Tokyo station. We are just looking for the line. Okay, put the QR code on there. Yeah, there you go. There you go. Theres me. An theres Matthew. Okay, we’ve left the Shinkansen
area of the station. We now need to find our subway. You want to go in that one? As you can see, it’s extremely busy down here today. I’ll probably imagine
it’s like this every day. We’ve seen where
the Yamanote Line is going. It’s platforms four and five. We’re heading over there now. So we’ve made it We’re
going to the subway. We’re going to do two stops and then
get off at Akihabara Station. Can’t quite reach Holly. We’ve arrived at Akihabara Station. We now need to board
the Tsukuba Express, which would take us to our Asakusa Station. One thing I don’t think I’ve ever experienced anywhere else on Earth is escalators
that transition from up and down to actually sideways to horizontal. It’s the only place I think
I’ve actually seen that. So this escalator is going down,
then it went straight, then it went back down again. If they are anywhere else,
let me know in the description, but I’ve never seen it before. Tsukuba Express, double back on ourselves and go that way. Even arcade games in the
station here in Akihabara. Oh no! Another set
of staircases to carry down. Okay, we’re at Akihabara. We want to go to Asakusa. So this is from platform one. We’re on the to Tsukuba Express. We just need to go two stops,
and then we’ll arrive at a Asakusa station. We’ve arrived at Asakusa station. Just need to go through
the exit and walk to our hotel. It’s about 190 metres away. Hopefully, we’re not going to get too
wet because it is raining outside. If it is raining a lot,
we do have our waterproofs in our bag, but hopefully, we won’t need to wear them. This is really handy inside the station. It’s an interactive map that gives you directions. We did English. We did hotel information to find our thing. We’re staying at Asakusa View Hotel. Then it comes out here saying,
That’s where our hotel is. We need to by Exit B. Really handy. Really good information that is. Okay, we’ve just exited the station. We just need to walk short
distance to our hotel. It’s raining a little bit,
but just not too much, luckily. Here we are.
This is the Asakusa View Hotel. It’s really high, and we’re hopefully
going to have a sky view room. Hello.
Yes. Oh, thank you. 3:00 PM, coming here. 3:00 PM.
Okay, no problem. Coming here at 3:00. Yes, no problem. So we made it into our hotel. We dropped our bags off. It’s too early to check into our room,
but I think we’re going to end this episode here. Then start a new one, Exploring Tokyo. So if you made it to the end of this
video, thank you so much for watching. It’s really appreciated. If you’re new here, my name’s Mark,
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We started the day with breakfast at our hotel, the Henn Na Hotel Kyoto which is run by Robot Dinosaurs.

We then go to Kyoto Station to catch our Shinkansen Bullet Train which will take us all the way to Tokyo.

Our train today is the Nozomi 86 and we are in carriage 12, seats 1A, 1B and 1C at the rear of the carriage so we can store our oversize baggage behind us.

After two hours we arrive at Tokyo Station and then take the subway to our hotel, the Asakusa View Hotel.
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