Japan is where the Shinkansen High Speed Bullet Train originated. It was developed thirty-five years ago and opened in October of nineteen sixty four. At that time bullet trains went one hundred twenty five miles per hour. It went from Tokyo to Osaka. The second generation of Shinkansen High Speed Bullet Train was introduced in nineteen seventy two. That one went two hundred twenty km/h. It was extended to Okayama. In nineteen seventy five the track was extended to Hakata.

In the nineteen fifties innovations on the conventional Shinkansen High Speed Bullet Trains were given priority over the other non Shinkansen High Speed Bullet Train lines to meet increasing demands of the public people. By nineteen sixty one the double track line reached its transport capacity with twenty six thousand route kilometers of traffic per day. Construction of the line was all the way finished and fine tuned by June of nineteen sixty four. After that they did not have to make any major changes to the track, besides maintenance. That was ten days before the opening of the nineteen sixty four Olympics.

The first Shinkansen was the inter-city high speed railway system, the Tokaido. It was only five hundred kilometers, and it went from Tokyo to Osaka. Today more than two hundred eighty Shinkansen trains operate between Tokyo and Osaka every day. The success of Japan's Shinknasen has made other nations want bullet trains, and a number of nations are now operating and planning High Speed Railways based on concepts similar to the Shinkensen.

In Shinkansen High Speed Bullet Train history there has been ten different models. The first one was the 0 Series Shinkansen. Then came the 100 Series Shinkansen. The third series was the 200 Series Shinkansen. Next came the 300 Series. After that the 400 Series was made. The rest of them were the 500, 700, E1, E2, E3, and the E4.