{"id":127486,"date":"2019-11-14T17:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/?post_type=news&#038;p=127486&#038;lang=en"},"modified":"2019-11-14T17:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-11-14T08:10:50","slug":"jr-kyushu-to-debut-new-tourist-train-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/en\/news\/jr-kyushu-to-debut-new-tourist-train-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"JR Kyushu to Debut New Tourist Train in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fiscal 2020 JR Kyushu will debut a new sightseeing train that will travel through the seven prefectures of Kyushu. Industrial designer Eiji Mitooka\u2019s designs will be used to renovate former Tsubame Express cars into luxury carriages. While the company&#8217;s first-class sleeper train Seven Stars offers overnight accommodation, this new train will be carrying passengers only during the daytime. Passengers can stay at hotels and ryokan of their choice. Detailed routes for the train will be decided in the coming months. <strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/mainichi.jp\/articles\/20191030\/k00\/00m\/020\/274000c\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mainichi Shimbun<\/a>, 10\/30\/2019<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1599px-Kyushu_Railway_-_Series_787_-_01.jpeg?resize=1400%2C933&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"1400\" height=\"933\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-127545\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1599px-Kyushu_Railway_-_Series_787_-_01.jpeg?w=1400&amp;ssl=1 1400w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1599px-Kyushu_Railway_-_Series_787_-_01.jpeg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1599px-Kyushu_Railway_-_Series_787_-_01.jpeg?resize=1024%2C682&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1599px-Kyushu_Railway_-_Series_787_-_01.jpeg?resize=768%2C512&amp;ssl=1 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/> Photo of JR Kyushu 787 for image purpose only. Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Kyushu_Railway_-_Series_787_-_01.JPG\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">JKT-c<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Disclaimer<\/strong>: Fukuoka Now posts summaries of Kyushu area related news for the benefit of those who cannot read Japanese. Contents posted here are mostly summaries of publicly posted news stories from Japanese media organizations. Errors might occur during translation. Those errors are ours, and not the news source\u2019s. Photos and images are sourced separately and are for illustrative purposes only. Please use <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/contact\/\">this form<\/a> to send feedback and questions.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In fiscal 2020 JR Kyushu will debut a new sightseeing train that will travel through the seven prefectures of Kyushu. Industrial designer Eiji Mitooka\u2019s designs will be used to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27918,"featured_media":127545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","tags":[],"class_list":["post-127486","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","location-kyushu","news-category-general","en-US"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/127486","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=127486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/127545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=127486"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fukuoka-now.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=127486"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}