Japan has gone and done it once again. The most expensive train in the world has been built in Japan. It’s long known that Japan is at the very top of the most technologically advanced countries in the world. They took one of the oldest ways of transportation and rebranded it with this luxury train.
Of course, there were luxurious trains in the past, and they were amazing for their time. The thing is, when you make a super luxurious train on our time, with all the available technology nowadays, it gets way past amazing. One thing you have to expect when Japan makes the best of anything is luxury and technology mixed together to create a spectacular piece of modern engineering and architecture.
The thing is, when you make a super luxurious train on our time, with all the available technology nowadays, it gets way past amazing. One thing you have to expect when Japan makes the best of anything is luxury and technology mixed together to create a spectacular piece of modern engineering and architecture.
When you call a train the most expensive train in the world, you have to expect a very high amount of luxury. The most expensive train may not be the fastest train in the world, but they already built that one, the bullet train. Now they built a super luxurious train.
What can you expect for a train ride that costs $10,000 per seat? You can expect the quality and service of a five-star hotel in this train, and maybe even more. This time they focused on luxury and service. And oh boy does it have luxury all over its very wide wagons.
A lot of features, commodities, and services are provided for you. They make you feel like a king. And you might as well be one if you have the money to pay for the prices of these seats.
Bar
Whenever you get thirsty on your ride, you just gotta walk through the wagons until you hit the very front, and you will find that one of the many things that you are going to find inside this luxury train is a great bar.
Filled with top shelf liquor and quality wine. You are going to be drinking in a bar that has a privileged sight of Japan’s nature.
Dining Room
The train is ready for anything you might need. The dining room is no exception. You are going to be blown away with this food court. The kitchen is run by a Michelin Star Chef. You can expect all kinds of fancy and delicious local cuisine.
Now, If you are not a fan of fancy food, don’t worry, it’s a five star super luxurious train, but I bet they still serve pizza.
Rooms
The rooms are as a big as a room can be on a train. Don’t let that fool you though. If you are lucky enough to get one of the suites in the train, you are going to be blown away.
If you happen to take this train in winter and you are feeling cold, forget about those old radiator looking heaters, this train has full on fireplace built in your room for you to warm yourself up.
Real wood and everything. Talk about luxury.
Service
In my opinion, no other country in the world beat Japan in this area. Japan is as well known for its technology as it is for its customer service. Unlike many other places, you are going to find that the most expensive train in the world to have the most amazing customer service.
To give you a picture of how it would be their customer service, imagine someone treating you as a human being and smiling at you while they are serving you the food, explaining any question that you may have, serving you drinks.
Lounge
If you feel like getting to know some of the other passengers that are riding with you, you will have to go and pay a visit to the lounge.
The common area where you get to meet the rest of the 34 passengers on this train. It has one of the most amazing designs.
It seems like once you step into this lounge, you step 20 years into the future. From the windows to the floor, everything seems it was worth your ticket fare.
The train is called train suite Shiki-shima. It was built by the Japanese company JR-EAST. If after reading about what services and luxury the most expensive train in the world has to offer, you think ”Hey, $10,000 per seat, it’s not that bad” and you want to buy yourself a ticket, let me let you know how much you have to wait to get in on it. You will have to wait at least until 2018 to hop on to it.
The tickets for a seat on this super luxurious train are sold out right now. The train is totally booked back to back until, at least, March of 2018. Would you buy a ticket? Straight out of the bat, I wouldn’t, I mean, I would love to, but $10,000, that’s just too expensive. Would you wait at least a year for a train ride? I don’t even like waiting the 3 minutes my instant noodles take to cook, so I certainly wouldn’t.
