Riding the World’s Fastest Train | 🇯🇵 603km/h Maglev L0

Today we are riding the world’s fastest train, the Superconducting Maglev L0. Humanity’s fastest train can reach speeds of 603km/h or 375mph.

Fee: 16,000JPY/120USD/10,000INR/160CAD/100EUR/100GBP/160,000KRW (Tokyo to Osaka estimate.)
Project fee: 10 Trillion JPY/ 75 Billion USD/ 6 Trillion INR?/ 10 Billion CAD / 6 Billion EUR/ 6 Billion GBP / 100 Trillion KRW.
Route: Tokyo to Osaka (67 minutes/430km/270mi)
Train: SC Maglev L0
Experience: Grandma supremacy.

Timestamp:
0:00 Introduction
0:55 Map & Price
2:53 How Maglev works.
4:00 Test Run Compilation.
7:16 Boarding
12:00 Secret Maglev prototype run.

*Tokyo to Nagoya 2027, Nagoya to Osaka 2045.

[Rick-vmbl]

The people of Japan have a lot to be proud of with their transport. The amount of effort and skill that goes into creating this is amazing.

[SteveNugget]

I remember the first time I rode a Shinkansen. It was almost ethereal to be a little boy in a ridiculously fast train, looking out to see Mt. Fuji heading to Osaka (if my memory serves me right). It's just amazing to see how far we've come in the development of rail networks to even have full-fledged maglevs at terrific speeds! Can't wait to hop back on one when the opportunity presents itself. Loving the content!

[XSpImmaLion]

Few extra info for those interested...
The L0 was announced and began testing back in 2012-2013, with this maximum speed of 500km/h being reached already back in 2013. Since then it has gone through repeated endurance and speed tests, reaching the record high of 603km/h back in 2015.
It has gone back and forth between public rides and testing, and one major upgrade from L0 Series to Improved L0 series.
Construction for the actual first commercial available to the public line which will go from Tokyo to Nagoya and then extended to Osaka has been going on since 2014. The first section up to Nagoya is planned to be finished by 2027, and originally the extension to Osaka would require a pause for JR to recover from extensive costs and planned to be finished by 2045, but because of a Japanese government injection of funds, it's now planned to be ready by 2037.

The speed and tech is impressive enough I guess, but for me what truly makes the whole Shinkansen system so amazing is it's reliability and... erm... track record. The foresight Japanese people had when building such a complex, expensive but extremely useful system back so many years ago transformed not only transportation, but also culture and lives of the entire population in so many different ways it's hard to make a full acknowledgement of it all.

I had a couple of opportunities in riding those a few years ago... as a foreigner living in a developing nation, I imagine that every foreigner that rides it starts imagining how life would be different for themselves if they had access to transportation like that in their own countries (well, unless you are from another country that has a similar system, that is).

Let me tell you that being a single child from parents who moved to a different state away from our extended family, having once or twice a year trips - every single year since I was a kid - by car or bus that takes 16 to 19 hours because of horrible road conditions, every single X-mas/new years' period which is right in the middle of extremely hot and humid summer down here... life would have been substantially different if we could just take a comfortable Shinkansen ride every year to visit relatives instead. xD I'd likely go more towards enjoying and actually anticipating the visits rather than being overcome with dread and anxiety when the date approaches, not only because of the expectation of enduring the long trip, but also the fear of accidents and problems happening during it, which we have far too many to count already.

And then, now that I'm living cross state from my mom, who is at a pretty advanced age and with a few health issues and limitations but still doesn't wanna move in with me (nor I want to move back), if we had a reliable and fast method of transportation between our cities that would certainly solve a whole ton of problems. This coming from a single person experience, there are so so many more problems that are solved and opportunities that are opened with an advanced transportation system like this that the price tag feels very much justified. The benefits for an entire population are too many to count. In my head I'm talking more about the entire metro and subway system in Japan I guess, not only the Maglev Shinkansen... but it's all connected, right? xD

Anyways, thanks for sharing! I had been very curious about how the maglev tests had been going, and it's super interesting to see it first hand like this instead of only articles and official material... xD

[shunqi-brxu]

"unlike the hyperloop, this technology seems practical and efficient " lmfaooo . Also like how the last chapter is called the secret maglev prototype run 😂 truly astonishing

[Hop]

Японцы крутые.блягодаря им мы приближаемся к той реальности, которую видели в фильмах про будущее🥰невероятные люди❤️

[richardyasushiii]

The Grandma power behind the Maglev was fine investigative journalism. Great channel!

[andrejshamin]

Круто. Вот правильное использование миллиардов))) Поезда вместо ракет и бомб!💪

[mikeg]

I never really thought about it but this is truly an unbelievable feat of engineering. I only took one semester in school on electromagnetic induction and that stuff is absolutely crazy. I can't even imagine the work that went into designing this train

[air_defender]

Woooow! 603 km\h its wonderful incredible!!!! Maglev already exist, and Hyperloop still is in theory. Japan, you are amazing country! Wish you well from Ukraine.

[Occupant]

meanwhile the fastest train in the USA is Thomas the Tank Engine

[abhisardahiya]

7:32 Love seeing the grandpa rocking the "born in texas" cap lol. I'm not American but still. Warms my heart in a weird way lmao

[HandattheHelm]

"Or in 5yo terms, big magnets push and pull to make train fly" "...finally putting Japan's aging population at the economic forefront" I laughed so hard. Thank you Solo Solo Travel, your sense of humor sets your channel apart from most other travel channels, and I really enjoy it.

[ken-cwcw]

単純に「夢がある」って感じだよね。



日本再生の原動力になって欲しいな〜。

[kingedwin]

My friend's granddad spent his engineering career working on Maglev technology. He probably consulted on this at some point. It's so cool seeing what was once the future becoming usable technology.

[ЛюбаВласова-чз]

Супер поезд!Фантастика!Браво!Вот бы на таком прокатиться!Спасибо за видео!

[-Ninnux-]

My man roasted the entire world already in the first 30 secs of the video haha

[HaYaTo_LogresJPRPG]

สมแล้วที่เป็นสุดยอดมหาอำนาจ Top 3 ของโลก
No.1 in Asia = 🇯🇵🎌👍✌️

[vincentrecto]

I find that the comfort in the Maglev more exciting, because you'd expect anything going 500 km/h would be crashy or loud, but it really isn't the case here

[ProyectoGLIRP]

Wow. Wonderful experience. Thanks for showing us the train of the future

[khalilahd.]

This is incredible! I’m currently learning Japanese to one day visit and do stuff like this and watching your videos really keeps me motivated. Adding this train ride to the list 😅