If you remember, one year ago the Japan Railfan Club awarded the Blue Ribbon Award for the
best train of the year 2009 to the Odakyu's Romancecar type 60000 MSE.
This year is the East Japan Railway's turn to receive the Blue Ribbon Award: the new Narita Express was
declared the best train of 2010:
New JR East Narita Express E259 series, image via Wikipedia The new Narita Express E259-series, launched in October 2009, will completely replace by the end of this month the (not so) old 253-series train, that served the Narita Express line since 1991:
Old JR East Narita-Express 253 series, image via Wikipedia The new train features improved interior for shake prevention and noise reduction (but, believe me, there wasn't much noise in the old train either :)), improved luggage storage, laptop outlets in every seat and, of course, wireless LAN connectivity... B)
Interior of JR East E259 series "Narita Express" Green-class car, image via Wikipedia From the outside, the E259-series looks sleek and futuristic (like pretty much all the new Japanese trains):
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And here's another video, from the launch of this new great Japanese train:
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