Japan: 50 years after its birth, the train “Shinkansen” extended to Hokkaido – Le Parisien

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the Japanese train “shinkansen” for Tokyo to Hokuto station, Hokkaido, March 26, 2016 (AFP / Jiji Press)

For the first time Saturday Japanese train “Shinkansen” global pioneer of ultra-fast rail born there half a century, has transported passengers to the predominantly agricultural northern island of Hokkaido, a heavy investment prices.
in the early hours of the morning, an elegant train, aerodynamic profile and elongated nose, darted from Tokyo station in the presence of a crowd of rail enthusiasts to swallow 863 kilometers in four hours, with . top speed of 260 km / h

for five decades, the Japanese, young and old, to dedicate a passion Shinkansen – literally “new trunk line” -., which contributed to the rapid economic development of Japan’s post-war
archipelago inaugurated the first of these lines between Tokyo and Osaka in 1964, the year of Olympic games Tokyo line now carries more than 420,000 passengers per day on average (against about 60,000 in the first year).
The extension covers a distance of 149 km, including 54 km in a rail tunnel under the Tsugaru Strait between Hokkaido main island of Japan, Honshu.
construction costs of the new line exceeded 550 billion yen (4.4 billion euros), supported in part by Japanese taxpayers.
JR Hokkaido operator plans to extend the network in two decades to town Sapporo, the capital of the prefecture, which would require spending 1,200 billion yen more.
“the vow most ardent” of the island, whose projects date back more than 40 years, has finally been answered, welcomed Harumi Takahashi, governor of Hokkaido, hoping to attract more businesses and tourists to the area with vast forests and ski resorts.
the network now extends into the central, north and the south to the island of Kyushu. Now only Shikoku – the smallest of the four main islands of the Japanese archipelago – is not connected and there is no draft in this direction. However
“the time when the arrival of the Shinkansen could enrich itself a region is over,” said Atsushi Miyawaki, professor of public administration at the University of Hokkaido, told AFP.
Japanese countryside is emptying of their inhabitants at an alarming rate while the government provides a demographic decline which should see the country’s population to fall to 86 million in the next four decades, against 127 million currently.

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