1. The planned Shinkansen high speed rail project is the symbol of these changes.

2. The Shinkansen platforms were opened on October 1, 2003, to relieve congestion at Tokyo Station.

3. The remaining E2 series trainsets were withdrawn from Hokuriku Shinkansen services on 31 March 2017.

4. The Tōkaidō Shinkansen began service on 1 October 1964, in time for the first Tokyo Olympics.

5. In the twentieth century, it became the route for new super-express highways and high-speed railroad lines (shinkansen).

6. Shinkansen take up a large portion of the long distance travel in Japan, with the whole system carrying over 10 billion passengers in its lifetime.

7. Foreign Secretary: We have right now an agreement in principle that for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad line, India has decided to use Shinkansen, the Japanese high-speed rail, technology.