{"id":91091,"date":"2019-05-21T16:02:34","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T23:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/superfast-bullet-train-that-rivals-airplane-flying-times-set-to-debut-in-japan"},"modified":"2019-05-21T16:02:34","modified_gmt":"2019-05-21T23:02:34","slug":"superfast-bullet-train-that-rivals-airplane-flying-times-set-to-debut-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/05\/superfast-bullet-train-that-rivals-airplane-flying-times-set-to-debut-in-japan","title":{"rendered":"Superfast bullet train that rivals airplane flying times set to debut in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/superfast-bullet-train-that-rivals-airplane-flying-times-set-to-debut-in-japan.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The picture of a \u201cbullet train\u201d speeding past Mount Fuji is an iconic image of modern Japan.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, however, Japan has lost the \u201cworld\u2019s fastest train\u201d title to China \u2014 if only by a few miles per hour. But now, Japan plans to reclaim that crown, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/donald-trump\/trump-administration-moves-pull-funding-california-bullet-train-n973396\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">new bullet train<\/a> that will whisk between cities with journey times that rival passenger jets.<\/p>\n<p>The Alfa-X train, unveiled by rail company JR East, will carry passengers at up to 224 miles per hour, outpacing the fastest Japanese bullet trains in commercial service today by almost 25 miles per hour.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/mach\/science\/superfast-bullet-train-rivals-airplane-flying-times-set-debut-japan-ncna1007006\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear:both;\">Read more<\/div>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The picture of a \u201cbullet train\u201d speeding past Mount Fuji is an iconic image of modern Japan. In recent years, however, Japan has lost the \u201cworld\u2019s fastest train\u201d title to China \u2014 if only by a few miles per hour. But now, Japan plans to reclaim that crown, with a new bullet train that will [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91091","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91091","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91091"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91091\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91091"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91091"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91091"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}