Following Himeji Castle, we were on our way to Hiroshima City, the famous city where an Atomic Bomb was dropped in 1945 by the United States to subdue the Japanese Empire and end the war with the Axises of Evil. In Himeji, we boarded the Shinkansen, Japan's fastest speed train, otherwise known as "The Bullet Train". When we first boarded the platform at the station, we waited for our train to arrive. Unfortunately I was not quick enough to record this, but, a Bullet Train sped by on the opposite tracks easily exceeding 130 mph!! You should have heard all of us. We were actually laughing at seeing a train coming in one eye and seeing it leave in another all in about 3 seconds!! It was amazing!! No wonder why they call it "The Bullet
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