CRH

I'm taking a day trip to Quanzhou on the high-speed train CRH, the pride of China. When I visited this country for the first time in the early 90s, buying a train ticket was a reckless challenge, even at a ticketing counter only for foreigners. Now, it is almost the same experience as the one on the cue at stations in Tokyo.

中国の誇る高速列車CRHで泉州へデイトリップ。初めてこの国を訪れた90年代初めは、たとえ外国人用窓口でも、列車のチケットを買うことは酷い体験だった。いまではそれは、東京の駅の列に並ぶのと、さほど変わらない感覚になっている。

Nice and clean cabin. However, their coffee is still Nescafe that is too sweet.

快適で清潔な車内。でもコーヒーは未だに甘すぎるネスカフェ。

There is an onboard automatic hot water vendor for your tea—something you won't see inside the Shinkansen bullet train.

車内のお茶用自動給湯器。新幹線の中では見られないもの。