Posted on 05/14/2017 5:01:57 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
The East Japan Railway company sent to the first journey of the ultramodern train Train Suite Shiki-shima, for which tickets are booked until March next year.
Train Train Suite Shiki-shima called “boutique on wheels”. It is designed for only 34 passengers and consists of ten cars, which placed 17 of the compartment, restaurant and lounge.
According to The Japan Times, the creation is invested 5 billion yen, equivalent to $44.5 million Train Suite Shiki-shima should be three tourist routes, beginning in Tokyo and passing through the various prefectures of the country.
The interiors of the trains was developed by the Japanese Ken Okuyama, formerly worked with such car brands as Porsche, Ferrari and Maserati. Processing cars, he combined elements of traditional Japanese design with art Deco and futurism, and has also focused on natural themes: e.g., gender a review of cars covered with green plush that resembles grass.
Menu for restaurant Train Suite Shiki-shima created Katsuhiro Nakamura, the first Japanese chef to receive the Michelin star. His dishes reflect the culinary traditions of the regions of Japan, which will follow the train.
In the Train Suite Shiki-shima coupe has two levels: on the first floor is the master bedroom and the second small living room, made in Japanese style. This is the most expensive coupe in the train journey it can cost up to $10 thousand per person depending on route and season.
The cost of travel in a conventional coupe, meanwhile, starts from 500 thousand yen (about $4450) per person.
If I paid $4450 and someone presented that “meal” to me, death would be the sentence...
The movie Snowpiercer comes to mind......
I used to think that way until my wife talked me into going to a “chef’s tasting” at a casino steakhouse in Gulfport where a chef prepares small portions for about a dozen customers in front of you. I have never eaten that well before or since. Unbelievable. Can’t even describe it to you.
OK, so English wasn’t the author’s first language...
;)
That’s not a meal ; just one course of which I am sure there are many .
Gotta be better than Supertrain.
What a great show! Don Meredith and Steve Lawrence!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4417N3qvnyk
j/k
Gene Shalit and Supertrain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yBMVAzIMl5A
All trains should be like this.. Lets return some civility to trains.
Or Al Baby’s
So I guess it isn’t
“I pull my cup of soup back from a dirty, crackling cauldron in some train yard
My beard, a roughening coal pile and a dirty hat pulled low across my face
Through cupped hands around a tin can I pretend to hold you to my breast and find
That you’re waving from the back roads by the rivers of my memory ever smiling ever gentle on my mind”
Where are the photos? They can be posted to FR, can’t they?
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0078697/
Growing up Edward Andrews had a sailboat across from our boat he was such a pisser we would fish with drop lines at the dock using baloney as bait he took a hook out of my twins finger great guy
They are just pikers until they build something as grand as the Breitspurbahn
Please do not show this article to Jerry Brown.
Man, those were the good old days....
I rode that California Zephyr as a child and it was like that.
I’m not sure of any copyright issues.
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