The 'Bullet Train' of Japan runs between Tokyo and which other city?
Inter-city rail Japan has six main regional passenger railway companies, known collectively as Japan Railways Group or simply as JR. Four JR companies operate the "bullet trains" on very fast and frequent Shinkansen lines that link all the larger cities, including Tokyo, Yokohama, Nagoya, Kyoto, Osaka, Hiroshima, Fukuoka and many more. Many other cities are covered by a network of JR's "limited express" inter-city trains on , narrow gauge, lines. Major cities are covered by convenient train services of every one hour or more frequent. In addition to the JR Group, Japan has several major regional carriers such as the Kintetsu and
Blue Train (Japan) Blue Train (Japan) Services slowly began to be eliminated as the Shinkansen (bullet-train) network spread and as regional airports opened in the 1980s and 1990s; then five Blue Train services were eliminated in 2008 and 2009, six more between 2010 and 2015, and the final services in 2016. Aside from luxury "land cruise" tourist trains such as "Seven Stars in Kyushu", this has left just two overnight express trains (the combined "Sunrise Izumo" and "Sunrise Seto") as the only trains in Japan with sleeping accommodation. The first Blue Train was known as the "Asakaze". It ran between Hakata and Tokyo