Since the first Japanese bullet train left Tokyo Station on October 1, 1964 — just nine days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics — the Shinkansen has carried more than 10 billion passengers across 60 years of continuous high-speed operation, and has never had a single passenger fatality caused by derailment or collision in its entire history

Since the first Japanese bullet train left Tokyo Station on October 1, 1964 — just nine days before the opening of the Tokyo Olympics — the Shinkansen has carried more than 10 billion passengers across 60 years of continuous high-speed operation, and has never had a single passenger fatality caused by derailment or collision in its entire history | FLIP NEWS