The Second Largest World Economy -- 

Spends Money On A New Train

Japan is planning to spend huge amounts of money on a new train.  It has been created by an architect that is spending a whole bunch of their money on a train--actually $50 million dollars.  It will be able to run on both electric and non-electric train rails.  It's the opposite of high speed rail in China, so it's probably slower.  It's mainly made for luxury tourists and sight seers.

There are 10 carriages on the train.  This is what the back of it looks like.  It's made to look extremely fancy and will hold up to 34 passengers.  It is also called the Cruise Train.  

As you can see, in the luxury parts it is extremely small which doesn't give much room for different people throughout the world. Most westerners are extremely tall and it looks like most westerners would not be able to fit on the train.  Also people in wheelchairs wouldn't be able to go on it either, which makes it very not safe and friendly for all people.  It was clearly not built and designed by engineers.  

It was designed with lots of glass so that the passengers would experience an appreciation for time and space.  It's going to make people extremely uncomfortable, especially people with mental and psychological problems, because it will make them feel like everyone is watching them.  People with expensive tastes will not like this train because it's the worst features of things that are cheap and the worst features of the things that are expensive...rolled all into one, by poor architecture.

This is possibly the only part of the train where people feel the safest.  It's not too small and it's not medium sized, there's a lot of work to do before this is all perfected.  There's no evidence that this will even make it out onto the market.  I've been on the Chinese Bullet Train and I liked that train a lot.  This looks like the total opposite.  I'm not sure I'd like this train.  I probably will not go on this train.  

This train in Japan also doesn't take into account all of the cultural differences between the countries. That's why the Chinese Bullet Train, for different countries visiting is more popular.  That's why the Americans and the Chinese are the two world's biggest economies.  The Japanese are going to have a lot of work to do to impress the rest of the world.  Feel free to leave a comment on my blog.