The $10,000 Hotel on Rails: the Twilight Express Mizukaze

This February, JR West unveiled the new Twilight Express Mizukaze rail cars and passenger cabins. The Mizukaze, which will commence operations on June 17, is a luxurious sleeper train with berths going for as much as 1.25 million yen (approximately 10,000 US dollars) per person. The “hotel on rails” has all the amenities below, and more.

Each Mizukaze train comprises ten cars: sleeper cars, the front and rear observation cars, a dining car, and a lounge car. The observation cars are sleeved in windows all the way up to the ceiling, with sofas stretched out along both sides of the car, creating a feeling of spacious openness and ease. The view from big observation car windows is expansive. Passengers in the rear observation car are able to move out onto the open-air observation deck and feel the wind blowing as the Mizukaze glides along the rails.

The entirety of Car No. 7 is a sleeping berth known as “The Suite.” Very few train cars anywhere in the world are as luxurious as this one. Car No. 7 accommodates just two people, and tickets for this car range from 750,000 to 1.25 million yen. White marble covers the entrance to Car No. 7, which is divided into a living room, a bedroom, and a bathroom. The understated, slightly dark interiors of the other sleeping cars give way here to a bright atmosphere liberally appointed with tones of white. This creates a mood of lightness and expansiveness. There is a bathtub in the bathroom, allowing the room’s occupants to soak while watching the greenery of the Japanese countryside pass by outside the car’s windows. Being able to see out means being able to see in, however, so the blinds in this room can be manually lowered in an instant.

[johannbrummer]

It seems impossible to find info on this train in plain English. Types of accommodation, costs and route covered. Beautiful train!!

[partinigsih]

Twilight express mizukaze the hotel cool

[samjapanese]

This is most luxury cruise sleeper train.

JR-East→四季島(Shikishima）
East japan cruise course.

JR-West→瑞風(Mizukaze)
West japan cruise course.

Train name
四(Four)季(Season)島(Island)
瑞(Auspicious)風(wind)

Price→4day and 3night
¥1, 425, 000

四季島→Advanced luxury design
瑞風 →Classical dignity design