As fast as a speeding Bullet train!

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{Anna}

We have come to stay with our friends Mark, Yoko, Jasmine and Joshua.

They live a long way from Tokyo and we had to travel on a train to get here. There were lots of different trains at the railway station. Our train was the green one and it has a long nose. It was a whizzy fast train.

{Dad}

We travelled by train to a city called Goshogawara. This is where we are staying with our friends.

The Japanese call their trains "Shinkansen". They are more famously known as "Bullet trains". This is because they are shaped like a bullet and they travel very fast.

Our Shinkansen train is nicknamed "The Crocodile", this is because of it's long nose and green colour. It can travel nearly 3 times faster than a car travels on the motorway!!

Goshogawara is a long way from where we were in Tokyo. A car would would take 10 hours to get here, that's a whole day!!

Our train was so "whizzy fast" that it took just 3 hours to arrive, that's less than half a day!

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