In
march 2018, JR West announced that they will introduce a special shinkansen : the Hello Kitty shinkansen!
Since late June 2018, a shinkansen, a 500 serie, is indeed running from
Shin-Osaka to
Hakata Station (Fukuoka) as a
Kodama.
Departure from Hakata: 6:42 (Kodama 730)
Hiroshima : 8:13
Okayama : 9:57
Himeji : 10:39
Shin-Osaka: 11:13
Departure from Shin-Osaka: 11:29 (Kodama 741)
Himeji : 12:02
Okayama : 12:38
Hiroshima : 13:55
Hakata : 15:38
Good news : as a Kodama train, it is covered by
the Japan Rail Pass !
As the
the Harry Potter shinkansen and
the Evangelion shinkansen in 2015,
a 8 cars shinkansen is wrapped with the famous Character from Sanrio Co.