We have to endure the smoking hazard when using the night train in Japan.
Picture source: japan-guide.com
Hokutosei: Ueno, Tokyo and Sapporo
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S=smoking vehicle
N-S=non-smoking vehicle
R=restaurant car
L=salon car
Restaurant car is next to the smoking vehicle.
The smoking-vehicle ratio to total composition of a train = 70.6%
Non-smokers have to pass the smoking vehicle before going to the dinning
room.
※This Night train has been abolished in the summer 2015.
Cassiopeia: Ueno, Tokyo and Sapporo
Picture source:Wikipedia
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S=smoking vehicle
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L=salon car
Restaurant car is next to the smoking vehicle.
The smoking-vehicle ratio to total composition of a train = 40.0%
Non-smokers have to pass the smoking vehicle before going to the dinning
room.
※This Night train has been abolished in March 2016.
Akebono: Ueno, Tokyo and Aomori
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S=smoking vehicle
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The smoking-vehicle ratio to total composition of a train = 50.0%
※This Night train has been abolished in March 2014.
SunriseSeto: Tokyo and Takamatsu
SunriseIzumo: Tokyo and Izumoshi
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The train vehicles are detached into two trains at Okayama station.
S=smoking vehicle
N-S=non-smoking vehicle
The smoking-vehicle ratio to total composition of a train = 21.4%
Twilight Express: Osaka and Sapporo
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S=smoking vehicle
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L=salon car
Restaurant car is next to the smoking vehicle.
The smoking-vehicle ratio to total composition of a train = 71.4%
An ashtray is the very important apparatus in the admired, popular observation
car of 'Twilight Express'.
The railway company gives priority to the smoking vehicle.
Non-smokers have to pass the smoking vehicle before going to the dinning
room.
Picture source:Wikipedia
※This Night train has been abolished in March 2015.
＊Hokutosei, Cassiopeia, Akebono, SunriseSeto, SunriseIzumo and Twilight
Express are the sign-marks of the train.
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All Japanese sleeping limited express trains connect a smoking vehicle.
Can you believe that? All sleeper-trains in Japan are running connecting
a smoking car. Smoking is freely allowed in these trains,
and, of course, there is an ashtray on a table of a room.
These sleeper-trains operated by railway companies of JR-East, JR-Hokkaido,
JR-Tokai and JR-West neglect the world trend
to abolish smoking room in a railway train. This is harmful to a train passenger, train conductor and sales woman in
the vehicle.
Japanese Government and a local prefecture do not control the undesirable
policy of these railway companies. It is very
regretable thing, compared to the advanced countries.
Smoking rooms in a Japanese railway system
Alll JR's N700 superexpress trains provide a smoking room.
JR-Tokai: The railway company to provide a smoking vehicle and smoking
booth in a train
JR Shinkansen Tokyo Station: A smoking-restriction policy is different
between two JR railway companies.
Kyushu Shinkansen provides a smoking room.
JR-West and JR-East's new deluxe sleeper-trains provide smoking vehicles ( It starts operation in 2017).
Smoking booth of JR Shikoku's express trains was closed in March 2011.
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All railway trains should be completely smoke -free.
Smoking ban in the railway trains of the world
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日本語
ＪＲすべての寝台特急には喫煙車両を連結
2013年9月執筆 2014年12月加筆 2016年4月加筆
禁煙席ネット主宰 日本タバコフリー学会顧問 医学博士 宮本順伯
The article was written in September 2013, and last revised in April 2016,
by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
