ALFA-X bullet train

Looks awful.

Designed to reduce the ‘thump’ when it enters tunnels. Hope the extra speed will make the Tokyo to central Sapporo journey (from 2030) as quick as by plane.

Should be called Tengu.

"Looks awful"

Not as awful as the NY Subway.

Will a sleek nice looking design adversely affect the speed of the shinkansen or some oyajis sticking to the original shinkansen design.

looks fantastic. What a great design.

Its nice to see that Japan is leading the way in fast safe train travel, Japan has innovative ideas, concepts, that are years ahead of the rest of the world, although the UK was the birth place of trains we still lack that cutting edge in design, The UK's answer to high speed trains is the old 1980's HS125 which they have gone back to, with a dazzling top speed of 125 MPH the HS2 require digging up a large chunk of the countryside, millions of pounds in dept or ( over budget) it will be herendiously expensive that only a few people will travel on

Countries all around the world have or are building high speed rail, while we here in The States allow Big Oil to paint the idea as a boondoggle that couldn't possibly work. The influence of corporations on the American government is obscene.

Definitely not a Pininfarina design.

UK’s HS2 top speed 362 km/h (225 mph). 2 km/h faster than Alfa-X.

According to the plans, and if it ever gets built.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2

Actually, China is leading the world now in High Speed Rail. They currently have a train that runs up to 350 km/ hour on the Shanghai to Beijing route. It's called the Fuxing.

The news story doesn't say when that new train will commence operation.

A link to a video on the Fuxing train. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbxhxFegWxU

China has built some impressive stations as well.

Japan is currently constructing a maglev train line from Tokyo to Nagoya, with a firm completion date of 2027. The rolling stock to be used has already been clocked at over 600 km/hour (375 miles/hour).

Nice train

"Actually, China is leading the world now in High Speed Rail."

No, they're not.

China currently has the fastest commercial Maglev in operation (stolen Japanese and German technology anyway), easily surpassed by:

"Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record with 600km/h test run"

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/apr/21/japans-maglev-train-notches-up-new-world-speed-record-in-test-run

"The news story doesn't say when that new train will commence operation."

Not difficult to find out:

"Test runs of the new train start Friday, with plans to put the new train into service by 2030"

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/05/10/worlds-fastest-shinkansen-bullet-train-starts-test/

Before talking/typing, remember there's something called Google.

Technology is one thing, land configuration is another.

Japan, with mountains, curves and tunnels any slight km/h increase is exponentially more expensive (not mentioning earthquake prevention costs).

That means the gain vs. the cost is not economically viable.

"UK’s HS2 top speed 362 km/h (225 mph). 2 km/h faster than Alfa-X."

Incorrect.

"the ALFA-X — projected to hit speeds of up to 249 mph."

https://eu.usatoday.com/story/travel/news/2019/05/10/bullet-train-fastest-travel-prototype-testing-begins-japan/1166149001/

Actually, China is leading the world now in High Speed Rail. They currently have a train that runs up to 350 km/ hour on the Shanghai to Beijing route. It's called the Fuxing.

China and their Fuxing trains. I’d be more than a little worried about their safety performance than their speed.