Semiprivate booths to be introduced on Tokaido shinkansen trains

Those rich Chinese tourists are demanding luxury!

In China and other places, now busy building Hyperloop networks that travel several times faster while using FAR less energy/eco, quieter and with latest tech, must be nice!

I saw about this but they seem to only be for 1 person. If I were to use this I would like 2 seats for myself and my partner or son. So, I guess I’d stick to the usual seats.

falseflagsteveToday  02:10 pm JST

I saw about this but they seem to only be for 1 person. If I were to use this I would like 2 seats for myself and my partner or son. 

The booths will have lockable doors, and the seats can be rotated for face-to-face conversations.

Central Japan Railway Co will replace 20 of the 68 seats in each first-class car on the Tokaido Shinkansen Line with six luxury seats. 

I hope they are going to charge massive fares, i.e., more than 20/6=3.2 times the regular fare. And not use such carriages on the busiest services where people may have to stand.

Its time they did away with green cars and this kind of nonsense and just made the entire train more comfortable by spreading the seats across all cars. Either that, or having luggage cars to accomodate things like bicycles and vast suitcases.

As long as any changes should be with Japanese people in mind. People come to Japan and love what is working for the Japanese people.

That sounds pretty cool but how much will the extra charge be?