Japan’s Most Mysterious Bullet Train Is Retiring

Japan’s Most Mysterious Bullet Train Is Retiring

Japan’s Doctor Yellow Shinkansen will vanish from the rails by 2027, making every sighting now a piece of history.The "Doctor Yellow" train as it passes through the city of Himeji, Japan. Joshua MellinIn a country famous for punctuality—where the Shinkansen runs on a schedule measured in seconds—there is one bullet train in Japan that appears on no public timetable. It is a phantom on the charts, a flash of industrial yellow streaking through a …