How a Shinkansen Bullet Train Factory is Made in Japan

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The JR Central Hamamatsu Workshop aka Train Factory is the one and only location in Japan that conducts a complete overhaul inspection that fully disassembles, repairs and reassembles the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet trains, the most popular and busiest train line in Japan. This is how everything related to a Shinkansen and bullet trains are made in Japan. The JR Central Hamamatsu Workshop started as a repair shop in 1912 for steam locomotives and over time as technology evolved, so did the workshop servicing trains across the ages from electric locomotives, electric trains and now shinkansen. Today there are a total of about 1300 hardworking JR central staff and affiliated workers who come together at the factory to ensure that all their shinkansen trains are operating at peak performance and safety. In order to maintain and service the Shinkansen, the workers must be taken it apart section by section and then piece by piece as each must go through a strict and rigorous inspection process. This requires for each piece to be transported to various areas of the plant so different teams can work on the different sections simultaneously, hence the requirement for so much space. In fact, the workers are divided into 4 teams - body, parts, undercarriage and inspection. Each worker, required to master a unique set of skills for their section before being allowed to service the train. The Hamamatsu Workshop Factory works on, up to 4 Shinkansen at one time. In fact, they inspect and repair about 50 Shinkansen, 800 carriages, each year! And each train must pass 4 levels of periodic inspection, with each level becoming more exhaustive. Inspections are performed every 48 hours, then every 60,000km about 45 days, after that every 600,000km about 18 months and finally at 1.2Million km or every 36 months, which again is the most detailed inspection as it’s a complete teardown, repair and rebuild taking about 14 days to fully complete and the very inspection that I’m showing you today.

*Correction the undercarriage is tested at 186mph not 806mph.

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*Some of the the intro footage was not filmed in the Hamamatsu Workshop

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