{"id":10,"date":"2007-06-20T19:34:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-20T11:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/\/?p=10"},"modified":"2007-06-20T19:34:00","modified_gmt":"2007-06-20T11:34:00","slug":"travel-in-taiwan-by-high-speed-rail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/?p=10","title":{"rendered":"Travel in Taiwan by High Speed Rail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan High Speed Rail is the first bullet-train in the island. HSR began operating in January<br \/>\n5th, 2007. Moving at the maxium speeds of 300 kmh \/186 mph and running the length of 345km \/ 214 miles from<br \/>\nTaipei (Capital of Taiwan, located in north of the island) to Kaohsuing (the 2nd largest city, located<br \/>\nin south of the island). HSR shortens traveling time between north and south to as<br \/>\nlittle as 90 minutes on its non-stop route compares to 50 minutes by air, 5 hours by regular train or 6 hours by car.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yoniagu.pixnet.net\/album\/photo\/120226052\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.pimg.tw\/yoniagu\/4a21322402864.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Currently it stops eight stations: Taipei, Banciao, Taoyuan, Hsinchu, Taichung, Chiayi, Tainan, and Kaohsiung<br \/>\n(Zuoying). By 2010, 4 more stations will be opened: Nangang, Miaoli, Changhua and Yunlin.<br \/>\nHSR stations have been placed at the surrounding of current city centers. Cars for HSR are based on a design used by Japan&#8217;s Super Express HSR, modified to fit Taiwan&#8217;s environment. This unique design is called the Train 700 Taiwan. They are built in Japan by a 3-company consortium.<br \/>\nCars are soundproofed and every train is equipped with handicapped accessible seats and washrooms. Vending machines are<br \/>\nfound in the 1st, 5th and 11th cars. Every car displays time to next destination and current speed.<br \/>\nBusiness Class seats in general are 2.2 times higher than standard fares. Taipei to Zhuoying costs TWD 1,490 (=USD 45). German and French engineers are piloting the HSR trains and training Taiwanese counterparts now. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yoniagu.pixnet.net\/album\/photo\/120226048\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.pimg.tw\/yoniagu\/4a213223d18dc.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yoniagu.pixnet.net\/album\/photo\/120226050\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.pimg.tw\/yoniagu\/4a213223e3606.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/yoniagu.pixnet.net\/album\/photo\/120226051\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/pic.pimg.tw\/yoniagu\/4a213223ec696.jpg\" border=\"0\"  \/><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiwan High Speed Rail is the first bullet-train in the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ponponforever.net\/yoniagu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}