Luxury sightseeing train running through the nature-rich Japanese countryside

The Dawn of the Shikoku Tosa Era Enjoy the “Tosa-style hospitality“ of Kochi's “scenery,“ “rich food,“ and “warm personality“ on the new sightseeing train “Shikokusa Jidai no Yawn no Monogatari,“ which will make its debut in 2020. Interior Design Romanticism of Civilization The dynamism of the steam engine and rocket engine design is combined with the decorative expressions of the Meiji period as a motif of exuberance for a new journey. The interior design combines mechanical beauty with fantasy by expressing a series of lighting poles and variable table supports as a pseudo-design of mechanical piping. KUROFUNE Car 1, “KUROFUNE,“ was designed to resemble a steamship sailing across the ocean under an endless blue sky, while discussing “aspirations“ for a new era with fellow passengers, and to evoke the art of the late 19th century, which sprouted from the period of civilization's opening to the West.