Shinkansen Japanese bullet train (well, some of them) will be upgraded with a booth that is suitable for video conferencing to help professionals who work while they travel, according to the registers report.
Make a way for a special cabin or zooming car, which you want, will be a smoking room on the train that has lost its use after smoking on the train blocked last year.
However, the room was still there and it seemed like the Japanese railroad company wanted business travelers not to miss important meetings when they traveled.
‘Zoom-Booths’ or ‘Zoom-Cabins’ have the name: “S-Work Vehicle”.
They will be offered in several Shinkansen trains just and come with a normal wifi that already exists for other passengers, but double that speed.
You even get a mouse, a laptop privacy screen and a pillow to keep your laptop during the trip.
According to the report, this service will only be offered on several routes, and in one type of Shinkansen: N700S sloping train.
Certain trains, add reports, can touch 300km / hour on the Tokaido / Sanyo route.
The Central Japanese railroad company has even put the details and things that need to be known by passengers before going up to the special cabin of video conferencing on its website.
Here are other guidelines and details about special S-Work vehicles, directly from the mouth of the horse (with the help of Google Translate) “IT (cabin S-Work) is a vehicle that assumes that customers who use them for the same business objectives can continue their work Without hesitation.
Please allow each other to receive minimum work sounds such as the sound of keystrokes on personal computers, mobile sounds, and sound of web meeting.
This will be set to 7 cars (quiet chairs for ordinary cars) Nozomi in Tokaido-Sanyo Shinkansen .
It may not be set, such as during the year-end and New year holidays.
Reservations can be made up to 4 minutes before the train departure time on the day of boarding.
After purchase, you can change your reservation as you like before the departure time of the train.
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