Did you know you can ride the bullet train for 300 yen? A ¥200 train fair plus ¥100 express ticket will get you a ride on the shinkansen from Hakata to Hakata-minami.
“Surely you can ride the subway that far for cheaper!” You might be thinking. NOPE. Actually, the bullet train appears to be the only line that runs through Hakata-minami.
More to the point, something was … strange about this particular bullet train. The colors were wrong, for one thing. I assumed it was just older, as many other trains in Fukuoka had seemed thus far. NOPE again.
The outside of the train was purple, and I noticed this… label:
I honestly had NO idea this was a thing, but apparently it’s a pretty big novelty in Fukuoka; there were at least three other people taking pictures of the thing while we were there, and for us it was a COMPLETE coincidence (Satoshi just wanted to ride the 300 yen bullet train… I keep calling him a train nerd, to an indignant, 「チガウよ！」 every time lololol)
Anyway, this is a big enough of a draw that there are merch shops specifically for the train, and even a cafe in the underground area!
(we didn’t go; I just thought it was neat)
Anyway, kudos to Eva for being so friggin popular over 20 years later.
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