Japan Opens the Tokaido Shinkansen Bullet Train
CONFIRMED87% CONFIDENCEWikipedia's[3] Tokaido Shinkansen and Shinkansen articles, along with Japan House London's[2] retrospective, state the line opened on October 1, 1964, ahead of the Tokyo Olympics.
On October 1, 1964, just nine days before the Tokyo Olympics opened, Japan's Tokaido Shinkansen began carrying passengers between Tokyo and Osaka at over 200 km/h.
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