JR West debuts Twilight Express Mizukaze luxury sleeper train in summer 2017

West Japan Railway Co. (JR West) will debut a luxury sleeper train in June 2017.

First announced in 2014, the Twilight Express Mizukaze is billed as “a hotel rolling through the beautiful Japanese landscape”, offering four different one-way overnight trips and a three-day, two-night circular route.

The routes include a leisurely excursion down the Sanyo cost from Kyoto or Osaka to Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi. The inbound trip then takes passengers along the Seto Inland Sea, which is often called “Japan’s Mediterranean”. Alternatively

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