Japan tour 2014. On the tracks dairy # 2 or 3

Sushi Shinkansen!

A shinkansen is a japanese bullit train. It is a very fast train and it hits its destination, that's why it is called like it is; a bullit train. A local or regional train is slow as it has to stop at all stations to serve people who travel local or regional. 

A sushi train is that conveyer belt that transports the sushi pieces out from the kitchen area to the customers in a sushi restaurantor diner. A Sushi train is also slow. It has to be coz how else should the customers be able to pick what they want from it.

In many ways the sushi train bear resemblance to the real worlds local or regional trains and the way these serve the local community and transports people around there to every single stop, only the sushi train transports the sushi pieces to hungry mouths. well at least where I come from it is like that, there is one sushi train that goes slow around all tables and the pieces can be picked up by anyone. Like the train system (MTR) we use in Hong Kong. 

Now we are in Japan. here things are a bit more complicated and efficient. Here a train is not just a train. Here there is local, regional, rapid, express and high speed bullit trains; shinkansen. Japan has a big population living together in a relative small space so things has to be fast and efficient, if you have to get fast from A to F without stopping at B, C, D and E, you take the bullit train from A that hit F directly.

So now we are at a sushi diner in Japan. There is a sushi train going round like normal, but what if you want to order something that is not there right away? You can order from the waiter, right? At least we do that in little Hong kong (ha ha). 

But this is high tech efficient Japan, things has to be fast likewise efficient and not least at low cost, so things are run with technology and machines instead of man power. Here every booth are equipped with an iPad for ordering and then there is the sushi shinkansen. That is an extra conveyer belt but running seperatly from the main belt or sushi train as you like. This belt however just goes straight to your booth with the ordered pieces. Like a bullit train. Highly efficient.