In 1964,the final time Tokyo hosted the Summer Olympics, the nation revealed one of the biggest mic drops in transportation history: the debut of the shinkansen, and the world-celebrated bullet train that became a Japanese icon. The first high-speed train in the world,it spurred similar technology to spread to Europe and other East Asian nations, paving the way for current maglev trains and, or arguably,the Hyperloop.
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