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Hello Kitty shinkansen makes final run after 8 years of operation
(www.straitstimes.com)
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this post was submitted on 18 May 2026
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It isn’t. I’m guessing they’re stripping the Hello Kitty livery and reusing the train elsewhere, unless it was already old when it became the Hello Kitty Shinkansen and now has to be either extensively refurbished or scrapped.
Theyre being withdrawn. They were first built in the mid 1990s.