Central Japan Railway (JR Central) unveiled a specially painted shinkansen bullet train Monday with the theme of Fantasy Springs, a new area of the Tokyo DisneySea amusement park.
The train, which features characters of popular Disney movies including "Frozen," will make up to two round trips a day between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka stations from Friday to mid-September. It is the first specially painted shinkansen train to operate since the Tokaido Shinkansen line opened in 1964, JR Central officials said.
"We hope (passengers) will feel as if they're in a dream while traveling on the Shinkansen," JR Central President Shunsuke Niwa told a news conference in Hamamatsu, Shizuoka Prefecture.
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