Orient Express オリエント急行

The Orient Express was the name of a long-distance passenger train service created in 1883
by Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits (CIWL) .There are five or more Orient-Express companies
and courses.


History of the railway roadmap: Map source - Wikimedia Commons


The route and rolling stock of the Orient Express changed many times. Several routes in the past
concurrently used the Orient Express name, or slight variants there of. Although the original Orient
Express was simply a normal international railway service, the name has become synonymous with
intrigue and luxury travel. The two city names most prominently associated with the Orient Express
are Paris and Istanbul, the first endpoints of the time-tabled service. The Orient Express was a show-
case of luxury and comfort in a time when traveling was still rough and dangerous. CIWL soon
developed a dense network of luxury trains all over Europe.

In 1977, the Orient Express stopped serving Istanbul. Its immediate successor, through overnight
service from Paris to Vienna, ran for the last time from Paris in June, 2007. After this, the route, still
called the Orient Express, was shortened to start from Strasbourg instead, occasioned by the inaugu-
ration of the LGV Est which affords much shorter travel times from Paris to Strasbourg. The new
curtailed service left Strasbourg at 22:20 daily, shortly after the arrival of a TGV from Paris.

In December 2009, the Orient Express ceased to operate, and the route disappeared from European
railway timetables, reportedly a "victim of high-speed trains and cut-rate airlines." The Venice-Simplon
Orient Express train, a private venture by Orient-Express Hotels Ltd. using original CIWL carriages
from the 1920s and 1930s, continues to run from London to Venice and to other destinations in
Europe, including the first route from Paris to Istanbul. In March 2014 Orient-Express Hotels Ltd.
was renamed Belmond.
Source: Wikipedia


The first Orient Express in 1883

オリエント急行（Orient Express = Express d'Orient）とはヨーロッパの長距離夜行列車、および、これに
ちなんで名付けられた列車である。

Venice Simplon-Orient-Express:　Q & A
Q:　オリエント・エクスプレスでは喫煙できますか？
A:　他のお客様への配慮と、ヨーロッパおよび英国内の法律によって、オリエント・エクスプレスの車内は
　　すべて禁煙となっております。
　Photo gallery of Orient Express

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Railway Travel around the World 世界鉄道旅行
　　All railway trains should be completely smoke -free.
　鉄道全面禁煙化は世界の常識
Smoking ban in the railway trains of the world

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In Japan:

A non-smoking luxury sleeper train by JR-Kyushu



The Seven Stars in Kyushu is a deluxe sleeping-car-excursion train which was ordered by Kyushu
Railway Company(JR-Kyushu). It is scheduled to use on services from October 2013. The name of
the train is derived from the seven prefectures of Kyushu, and the fact that the train will be made
up of seven cars.

All vehicles are non-smoking. This is the first Japanese sleeper-train which prohibits smoking inside
of the train car.

　Vehicle No.1= Lounge
　Vehicle No.2= Restaurant
　Vehicle No.3- No.6= Suite room with a shower facility
　Vehicle No.7= Deluxe suite room with a shower facility

　七つ星:　Q & A
Q:　七つ星車内で喫煙できますか？
A:　七つ星車内は全車禁煙とさせていただきます。

Photo gallery of Seven-Stars (by JR-Kyushu)
　 七つ星 写真ギャラリー（JR九州運行）

　国内鉄道・海外鉄道・レンタカーを利用した旅


No-smoking deluxe cruise night train
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The photographs were taken and the article was written in January 2017,
by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
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