Hello Kitty Shinkansen with JR West Wide Area Pass

The Japan Railway West Co., better known as JR West, premiered a Hello Kitty bullet train service on its Sanyo Shinkansen line on June 2018. At the moment, like other special shinkansen trains before, it seems that this train will run for a limited time, for now it’s not known until when but, according to JR West, it will be announced 4-month a time.

This new must-do item has chosen Hello Kitty’s iconic red ribbon as the main theme, as a way to represent the strengthening of the ties between the Shinkansen services and the western part of the country. The best part? It’s included in your JR Pass! Besides, instead of the usual Shinkansen jingle, the train will ring the original Hello Kitty theme tune as it approaches the stations, how adorable is that?!

Hello Kitty bullet train features

The first two cars will be decked out in full Hello Kitty adorable fashion, with motifs from the famous Sanrio character and her friends and even a photo booth!

The first car, called Hello! Plaza, will not have any passenger seats, instead, it will showcase local specialities, delicacies, and souvenirs from the regions in the new JR West’s line, which passengers will be able to enjoy and buy.

Lots of exclusive onboard for sales~

Its so pink everywhere~

 Hungry for bento?

A very happy place to be in~

The second car named Kawaii! Room will be a passenger car covered from top to bottom with the popular Sanrio feline character and her friends, featuring a Hello Kitty doll in Shinkansen uniform.

In the non reserved seats, you can sit anywhere you want! You can also turn the seats around, to have a booth seat of 2 seats facing you for more room when there is ample of space for everyone~

I bought a bottle of water, cos its cute and keeps me hydrated too!

Look at the window shade!

Even a Hello Kitty smoking room?

They really decorate every corner of this train, even WC (in upcoming Youtube video)

Time table:

The best part of this ride? It is COVERED with the JR Kansai Wide Area Pass!!! The Kansai Wide Area pass, allows one to visit all these places for 5 days! For more info, Click Here 

To safe your hassle, you can also get them from NTA (Click Here), that is based in Singapore, they helped me with my 1001 questions!

There will be a video done,  coming on my Youtube channel (LINK), stayed tuned for them, and subscribe if you haven~