Latest JR Central TV commercial for Shinkansen

[bikkuri bahn]

In an effort to attract more ridership post-corona, JR Tokai has started a campaign, with the slogan- "lets go, somebody is waiting to see you", emphasizing more personal or leisure trips to intermediate destinations on the Tokaido Shinkansen, in particular Shizuoka.  Shizuoka is getting an additional Hikari stop (on an evening "down" service i.e. departing Tokyo) starting March 16, the first addition in 16 years. Currently a total of 37 Hikari (combined up and down) services stop daily in Shizuoka, with the aforementioned train in the spring timetable revision this will become 38.

*at 0:55 the scene is an "up" Shinkansen service crossing the Toyokawa River, with Toyohashi in the background.

Edited March 1 by bikkuri bahn
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[HankyuDentetsu]

Presumably the focus on Shizuoka will be to curry JR Central's favour with big Heita Kawakatsu!! I read recently they were pushing to remind him how much better served the prefecture will be by traditional Shinkansen once the maglev is up and running...