Saint Petersburg to Helsinki サンクトペテルブルグからヘルシンキへ

Saint Petersburg to Tokyo, via Helsinki


(L) After check-out hotel, we moved to Finland station by a taxi.
(R) It is now Passing through the well-known Hermitage Museum.

(L) Driving over the Totroitsky bridge in Neva River (R) The water front of Finland Bay

(L) Driving along the Neva River (R) Passing over the Sampsonievsky Bridge



・・・・・ Allegro アレグロ解説


The Allegro is a high-speed train service between Helsinki, Finland, and St. Petersburg, Russia.
The express train runs between Helsinki and Saint Petersburg in 3 hours and 36 minutes.
The units are equipped for both the Finnish and Russian railway technical systems. Doors have a retractable
step to make boarding from both Finnish 550 mm-high and Russian 1,100 mm-high platforms easy.


This picture shows a low-lying platform in the outskirts of Bern, Switzerland, with wooden passenger walkway above the track.
There is a different type of plateform in Japan. A standard higher plateform in most major railways is 760 mm high.


Allegro in 2014, an express train linking Russai and Helsinki, with explanation of images in English ( Video length: 56 minutes )
Allegro express trains linking Saint Petersburg, Russai and Helsinki, Finland ( Video length: 55 minutes )


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A taxi we used to the international airport was Mercedes-Benz.

The city scene of Helsinki on the way to the International airport

Approaching Airport
The price of gasoline for 95 was shown 1.589, for 98 it was 1.649 Euros, which is equivalent to 2.13 and 2.207 US dollars,
respectively.

(L) Terminal 2 of Helsinki International Airport: An exhibition is nice; however, we need more chairs to sit.
(R) Finnair Aircraft to Tokyo

(L) No air passenger was seen in a business-class seat.
(R) The writer arrived in Narita International Airport in the following morning.


Train Travel over the World 　海外鉄道紀行
Trans-Siberian Railway
Total smoking ban in the railway trains is the common sense of the world.
Tobacco control in Russian Federation 2008-2014

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Russia
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Moscow Kremlin Church, museum and theatre of Moscow Moscow metro Moscow hotels
Russian life High-speed train, Sapsan Saint Petersburg Winter Palace Peterhof Palace
Catherine Palace Saint Petersburg metro Saint Petersburg hotels Pickpocket
Russia-Finland border


サンクトペテルブルグ・ヘルシンキ経由、帰国
2014年7月撮影　2014年8月執筆　医学博士　宮本順伯
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This information was provided by the Smokefree Hotel and Travel.
The photographs were taken in July, and article was written in August 2014,
by Junhaku Miyamoto, M.D., PhD.
Copyright(C) 2014 Junhaku Miyamoto, All rights reserved.

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