#hello kitty shinkansen

[merpmonde]

Hello Kitty Shinkansen. Yes it's real, and it's a lot of fun.

A year ago, I planned a trip between Hiroshima and Kokura on what I feel is the wackiest train concept imaginable. Take the 500 Series Shinkansen, an absolute rocketship (and IMO the best train ever) and wrap it in pink. That didn't sound too appealing to me when I first heard of the project, but I've got to say, the livery is a banger, and turned a lot of heads at every station we stopped at!

The train remains on a regularly-scheduled service, a return trip between Hakata, Fukuoka on Kyûshû, and Shin-Ôsaka as an all-stop Kodama, so it's a normal train... save for two cars. Car 1 is basically a shop, while car 2 is the Kawaii! Room, a seating car in full Kitty mode!

The front of car 2 also has a space to pose with Kitty-chan. As a collab, the Hello Kitty Shinkansen takes the opportunity to showcase the prefectures JR West serves, with Kitties on the map promoting each area's special feature, such as "the great lake" in Shimane (Shinji-ko), "we love this pear!" for Tottori (though Kitty seems to be holding an apple?), takoyaki for Ôsaka, and Hyôgo is "proud of Bread" (any thoughts on that @todayintokyo?). These 8 local characters are repeated on each of the 8 cars outside.

While I'm not a fan or particularly knowledgeable about Hello Kitty, I thoroughly enjoyed riding this train. It's over the top with Easter eggs everywhere, down to the jingles! (not my recording)

All that's left to say is...

[aesthetic-wanderlust]

Hiroshima, Japan

✧˖°. Please check my YouTube video for more Hiroshima content! ≽^•⩊•^≼

[redsamuraiii]

Hello Kitty Shinkansen by Kim via Japan Moments

If anyone knows her ig, do let me know in the comments so I could link directly back to her and see more of such cool photos in Japan!

[aquayurufuwatraveler]

2024.5.4 福岡 山口　ハローキティ新幹線500系

博多、厚狭、徳山、新岩国

[niurd]

instagram.com/p/DBB0SqsoEzF/?igsh=MW5lcjlvbDVkbGdnOQ==

[magicalsookie]

yesterday haul! got a hello kitty scrapbook kit, hello kitty planner and so so so many sanrio stuff!

[takaki2]

[ayankey910]

「 Sanrio Bath 」 2003

[cheeriochat]

Shinkansen!!!!

[sol-nebula]

hey psa apparently if you search “spg zoo videos” on youtube half the results will be korean p*rn (/srs)

if you learned this the hard way like i did, so sorry. if not, you’re welcome

[merpmonde]

MiniWorld Lyon

Looking for a cool place to go with @teamroquette on the hottest day of my trip to Lyon, we opted for... Lyon. But the miniature version, housed in the MiniWorld diorama park!

MiniWorld Lyon was surprisingly impressive at every level. The sets are huge and the details are amazing. We spent hours there and didn't catch everything - there are 4 Wallies (Waldos) in the whole park and I only found two. But to show the level of dedication, see that traffic jam going into Fourvière tunnel on the left? It goes all the way in, as far as the turn...

And it's like this all the way through the park. The main exhibit is divided into four zones (each with a Wally): generic city, mountain, countryside and Lyon.

This exhibit is on a 20-minute day/night cycle, and every hour, Mini Lyon holds a replica of Lyon's Fête des Lumières held in December, which includes light shows projected on buildings, such as those on Place des Terreaux.

The current temporary exhibit is called Japan Mania, with dioramas from Japanese pop culture. A few Japanese elements have been added to the main exhibit too, including something familiar...

[salvadorbonaparte]

I just watched a travel documentary about Japan and they showed a Hello Kitty shinkansen. Imagine if German trains were punctual and one of them was Die Maus themed

[erischeatsdeath]

bullet train au where everything is exactly the same Except the train they're on is the hello kitty shinkansen

[trainmaniac]

©Provided by Metro

If pink is your colour, you won't want to miss out on Japan's cutest transportation. The Hello Kitty themed Shinkansen, a bullet train capable of high speeds, is full of memorabilia, photo ops, and Hello Kitty characters decorating the hot pink outside. Preceded by another anime-themed bullet train based on Evangelion, a famous Japanese anime, we know from previous themed trains that the end of the line could come with as little as only two months notice - so make sure to ride it while it's still in operation (Picture: REUTERS)

[dreamy-love222]

My future boyfriend got me a hello kitty official Sanrio bag. I didn’t ask.

So we were talking about pretty trains in Japan

I told him I had a favourite train I want to someday ride! He asked me what it was and I sent him an article about a Sanrio Shinkansen

He told me he didn’t even know it existed and that it was so cute!

I told him we don’t have Sanrio stores where I lived and he was like do you like hello kitty and I was like: ofc!!!!!!!!

And I showed him all my childhood hello kitty stuff. He told me it was cute and told me to choose something from the official Japanese Sanrio website!

Can I marry him. No one not even my ex bf of two years had done this. I have a feeling I’ll get princess treatment if we get together.

[pea-green]

hello kitty shinkansen, Osaka