Zombies Ready to Scare Shinkansen Passengers
Many of us have spent train journeys packed into a busy car, standing a little too close to the other passengers.
It's not usually an enjoyable experience.
But a Japanese company is inviting passengers to pay up to 50,000 yen — about $340 — to spend a train journey crammed into one busy car.
And they won't be sharing the car with other travelers — they'll be sharing it with zombies!
Okay, they're not real zombies. They're people wearing costumes, scaring passengers for more than two hours.
This is a one-time event taking place on the bullet train between Tokyo and Osaka. It's limited to one car of the 5:18 p.m. service on October 19.
The zombies won't just be scaring passengers — they'll also be playing music, dancing and doing magic!
Sixty tickets went on sale at the start of October.
The company organizing the event, Kowagarasetai, which specializes in haunted house experiences, says this will be the world's first zombie bullet train.
But while it may be the first time this has happened on a bullet train, other trains in Japan have offered zombie experiences in the past.
For the last two summers, the Watarase Keikoku Railway Company has been scaring passengers on the train between Nikko, in Tochigi prefecture, and Midori city in Gunma prefecture.
A seat on that train cost about 3,500 yen, or $24 — much less than the price of a seat on the zombie bullet train.
Tickets for the Shinkansen zombie experience start at 33,000 yen — about $250 — but aisle seats cost 50,000 yen.
That price doesn't include the return journey from Osaka back to Tokyo.
