Channel 5 - Chris Tarrant Extreme Railway Journeys Series 2 (2015) Part 5 The Great Japanese Train Ride

Chris Tarrant Extreme Railway Journeys: Series 2

In this second series. TV and radio presenter Chris Tarrant journeys by rail through some of the world's most challenging terrain.

Part 5 The Great Japanese Train Ride

Chris journeys a thousand miles across Japan, starting out in Nagasaki, where the story of eastern railways began 150 years ago with the help of an enterprising Brit. In Fukuoka, he visits one of the Bullet Train's giant repair centres and in Hiroshima; he unravels what happened to its streetcar network after the world's first atomic bomb devastated the city. Along the way, the presenter also meets a superstar cat and a singing conductress, while also checking into a popular trainspotter hotel and riding a steam-powered mountain railway.

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