Japan is to launch its next generation of bullet train for the first time in 14 years. The new aero-dynamic train will be the fastest in the nation at an operating speed of 300 kilometers per hour.

This still falls short of China's Harmony Express, a cross-country rapid transit which travels at a maximum 350 kilometer-per-hour.

The new high speed train will service the newly opened Tohoku line to the city of Aomori, some 713 kilometers north of Tokyo.

Its first class service offers customers free and unlimited alcoholic drinks and light meals. The service also boasts genuine leather seats with personal reading lights and leg-rests.