New Hokkaido Tourist Trains Red Star and Blue Star

[RS18U]

Looks interesting, hopefully someday we will be able to ride one of these, preferably the Red Star to Abashiri to visit our friends there.

 

https://japantoday.com/category/features/travel/beautiful-red-and-blue-star-luxury-trains-set-to-be-new-hokkaido-travel-stars-2

[miyakoji]

Cool.  Those Kiha 141 variants have an interesting history don’t they, starting as loco hauled passenger cars.  JR Hokkaido once had the BBQ Car, I wish they’d do another one of those, probably the single greatest idea in excursion trains ever 🙂