Most Luxurious Overnight Sleeper Train in Japan, "Train Suite Shikishima." Good morning!

Today I'm at Tokyo Ueno Station. This train is very popular and operates only a few times throughout the year!

This two-day trip is extremely expensive! More than $1300 per day. Passing through the ticket gate...

This is the Train Suite Shikishima. It's a very stylish design! The train staff will load all the luggage you've brought with you.

This is the observation car, which you can see the beautiful scenery from. The name "Train Suite Shikishima" is displayed on the information board.

The departure time is 9:15 A.M. The train conductor greeted me as I arrived at the train platform.

As you may have noticed, this is an exclusive train platform for "Shikishima," which is very impressive.

This is the corridor inside the train... Room 903 is my room. Opening the door... In this trip, I will be staying in this Suite Room for 2 days.

It's very spacious for a train. Each room has its own shower and toilet. The rooms are so luxurious that it's hard to believe I'm on a train.

Here is a bag of amenities with the Shikishima logo. Inside this box, you will find a toothbrush, shower cap, body soap, and all the other amenities!

According to the information here, the towels and other amenities will be changed every time after using them. The bathroom also has a window, but it's usually best to keep it closed when using the bathroom.

The train conductor greeted us as we started to depart. As soon as the train departed, many staff members waved at us.

Thank you for your kindness! This train will depart from platform 13 at Ueno Station and will return here after two days of travel.

This is the view from the window of my room. The train runs at this slow speed for most of the trip to ensure a comfortable ride.

This room also has adjustable lighting. This panel has numbers 1 to 4, with 1 being the brightest and 4 being the darkest.

There is also a refrigerator with grape juice, water, and tea, all of which you can drink as much as you want.

It is replenished every time the room is cleaned. This wall decoration is probably made using the world-class metalworking technology of Tsubame City in Japan.

Since this train attracts a lot of attention, as you can hear, it runs playing the music of its whistle...

This music whistle is another unique feature of the Shikishima. This is the stylish key to my room.

Locking the door... We just passed another train, and our train slowed down. This is to improve the ride quality!

Car 9, where my room is located, is 20 meters/65 feet long and has 3 rooms.

Room 901... Room 902... This means that only six people use an entire train car, which is extremely extravagant.

Since this is an overnight sleeper train, the room marked 9A here is for the staff members.

The staff member rooms are located at the end of the car, where the ride tends to be less comfortable.

Next to Car 9 is Car 10, the front train car. The front car is designed as an observation car to enjoy the beautiful scenery.

You move through this red passageway to get to the observation car. You can see the person sitting next to me; he is the train driver.

The view from the observation car is like this, and it's beautifully designed... The man in the front is the train driver.

The floor in this train car is raised due to the running equipment underneath. It's time for lunch, so I'm heading for the dining car.

This is the dining car. When I arrived at the dining car, dishes were already prepared. You can drink as much as you want, including the most expensive alcoholic drinks and other beverages!

This time I had a bottle of Chinese alcohol and a bottle of Tokyo's premium alcoholic beverage! Here is my lunch.

From left to right: chicken, jellyfish, and scallops! Today's lunch is apparently extravagant Chinese food.

It's very nice to eat while watching the beautiful scenery from the window! The mountain we see is Mt. Haruna, with a height of 1400m.

The scenery around here is very nice to see. This is a very expensive and healthy soup with abalone that any Japanese person would enjoy!

The main dish is scallop fritters! This dish is quite common in Japan. The train will reach Mizukami station shortly and stop for a few minutes...

The train has started to depart... There are so many tourists and train fans at the station, taking pictures of Shikishima with their cameras.

You can see how popular this train is! This is the lounge car. As you can see, the lounge car has a very stylish atmosphere.

In the lounge car, you can eat and drink as much as you like, and it's all included in the ticket price!

I really love this unique and beautiful design... In this area, there are rice paddies of "Koshihikari" rice, which is a very famous and expensive rice in Japan.

And now we are passing the famous Nakasato station, a station close to a ski resort! On the right is the ski resort, without snow yet.

One of the special features of the scenery here is this display of an old blue train car that was manufactured just after the end of World War II.

During the winter, this train becomes a facility where skiers can take a rest while skiing. That station is "GALA-Yuzawa", a bullet train station that is only available in winter, which is used for the ski resort that we passed by.

This is the area that produces the most rice, and now is the time of harvest, so rice is lying on the ground.

The beautiful scenery of the rice fields seen from this observation car. It's a type of scenery that can only be enjoyed on Shikishima!

Back in the lounge, I ordered a drink! Every time you order a drink, you will be offered a fine hand towel like this one.

The menu is very extensive, including soft drinks and cocktails. This time I had this delicious green cocktail!

In addition to the previous drink, I also ordered this strawberry cocktail, and it tastes quite delicious! Here's the inside of the train driver's seat! The gauge shows we are traveling at a speed of 60 km/h.

The train is equipped with a machine that automatically maintains a 60 km/h speed because the train is most comfortable at around this speed.

According to the train driver, the train will stop at Niitsu Station soon. This train takes about half a day to cross Eastern Japan and stops at Niitsu Station for a while!

Now let's get off the train... All of the other passengers get off at once and enjoy sightseeing in Niitsu together.

In this station, there is an exclusive entrance for the Shikishima train, which is a very nice thing to have!

From here, we'll take a bus for a tour of the city! This bus is equipped with comfortable footrests. Very nice!

The station staff, conductor, and other staff waved us off as the bus departed! According to the bus tour guide, it will take about 40 minutes to visit a Japanese garden called the former Saito family's villa.

It looks like we'll get there quickly since we'll be taking the highway. We're now on the highway. It started raining right after I got on the bus.

We are now crossing the Bandai Bridge, a famous landmark and symbol of Niigata Prefecture!

I'll show you some photos of the inside. It was an ordinary beautiful garden with Japanese cultural elements... I'm back at the station after a day of sightseeing... The train is just about to arrive!

Current time 5:30 p.m., and it's evening time!
All we have left for today is to eat dinner and go to bed!

I've come to the dining car for dinner... The train has just departed! The theme for today's dinner is something like French food combined with Japanese style!

This is an unusually tender and tasty octopus! I also had some expensive olive oil poured on it... Here is a grilled abalone! It is a kind of high-class shellfish.

This sparkling water is not artificial, but natural sparkling water! This is "Nodoguro", a premium quality fish from the Sea of Japan, and this time it was cooked! It is a very tasty and fatty fish!

I got a super thin knife. The sharpness is outstanding! With this sharp knife, we cut this meat and this green wasabi (Japanese horseradish), a spicy garnish!

It tastes great with wasabi on top of the meat like this! After that, I had some dessert and tea! Let's go back to our room now after eating this.

When I returned from dinner, my bed was ready! It's not very wide, but pretty decent for a train!

The bed sheets are very comfortable to touch! The clothes on the corner are a Japanese-style pajama.

Now I'm going to sleep in this comfortable bed! Goodnight... Good morning! It's 9:00 A.M.

I'm at the observation car, drinking Japanese tea... If you look out the window towards the front, you can see the other ten cars entering a curve.

I also went to the dining car. The morning light is shining through and it's a really nice atmosphere!

And soon we will arrive at Shinonoi Station. Here again, we will get off the train and take a bus for sightseeing.

Shinonoi Station is a pretty large station in this region. Leaving the station and getting on the bus...

This is the bus customized exclusively for the Shikishima Train. When you zoom in, you can see the Shikishima Train logo on the front.

The seats of the bus are all customized with a white, luxurious design. I got to sit in a nice seat! I can enjoy the scenery through this large window.

From here, we will take the bus for an hour or so to our destination. And here is the wine factory we're visiting!

I had breakfast here. These are grilled fish and eggs. After breakfast, we visited the vineyards, which are the basic ingredients of wine!

After that, I got to taste some of the wine, which many of the tour participants were waiting for.

The wines were so delicious, as they are award-winning wines. The wine prices ranged from $300 to $900, which was crazy expensive!

After the tour of the wine factory, we're headed back to the station. Now I'm back at the station. From here, what's left is a trip back to Tokyo Ueno Station.

Walking to the observation car... There were a lot of visitors outside again.
It's a pleasure having these people.

I'm back in my room. I'm going to open all of the windows and enjoy the scenery for a while.

Enjoying the view while sitting on the bed like this is one of the best parts of this trip!

I'm going to take a shower for a quick refreshment... The shower has a lamp so you can see how much water you have left.

As long as you use the shower normally, I don't think you will run out of water.

The water pressure is also quite strong, so it's very comfortable. After taking a shower, I'm back to the lounge to enjoy the scenery.

In this area, the scenery outside is very interesting. Since we're passing through the forest at high speed, you can fully enjoy the beauty of Shikishima!

They also made me some non-alcoholic cocktails, which are quite tasty! What a surprise! There is also a fireplace inside the train.

It looks real, but it's actually an art object! I've never seen such a realistic one before!

It's great to go back to the room and lie down and simply relax. I wish I could stay here forever.

The view from the train conductor's seat is also very interesting, since the train is running at a very high speed.

There are grape fields and peach orchards along the route. As you have seen, you can enjoy the scenery from many different places on this train!

Passing through a tunnel... We had a very sweet corn soup with tomato sorbet on top for lunch.
I was surprised at how delicious it was.

This is a dish of fried vegetables and caviar, with a lot of expensive ingredients. And I was also served a mushroom soup, a taste of autumn.

This is Japanese Wagyu!
The softness of this meat is extremely surprising compared to meat in other countries.

For dessert, we were given sweets that looked like lemons but actually weren't. The quality of the sweets was very impressive.

We will now go through a tunnel under Tokyo and arrive at Tokyo Ueno Station in about 2 hours.

There are few buildings in this area, so we can see the Tokyo skyscrapers. That is the tallest building in Japan, the Tokyo Skytree.
It is a whopping 634 meters tall!

According to the train conductor, we traveled 867 km / 540 miles in two days! We will arrive at Tokyo Ueno Station in about 5 minutes...

The train platform of Ueno Station is now in sight. We're almost back where we started. Locking the door before getting off the train...

It was a really fun trip!
The price is expensive, but I really recommend this train! There was a short party at the end, so I had some snacks and some tea.

There was also some limited-edition Shikishima merchandise on sale. They also sold food such as curry.

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