Fifty years two Shinkansen bullet trains completed their first journeys, kickstarting a high-speed rail network that would transform Japan. The world's first high-speed commercial train line was built along the Tokaido, one of the five routes that connected the Japanese hinterland to Edo, the city that in the mid-1800s became Tokyo.
The term 'shinkansen' literally means 'new trunk line': symbolically, it lay at the very centre of the huge reconstruction effort. All previous railways were designed to serve regions. The purpose of the Tokaido Shinkansen, true to its name, was to bring people to the capital.
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