>>2024166
This one was shot on Film so there very few documentaries of that quality.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Afu9clEUinQ Here without the annoying black bars at the bottom.

There are however quite a few however about other stuff shot for TV.

Here a list of interesting ones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MbeW3y78Fo - Ueno being renovated for the Shinaknsen. It wasn't until 1985 that trains actually stoped here and people going to Tohoku had to take a relay train to Omiya.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TDmP3jcoYpQ - This is the relay train that you then had to switch from. This still happens technically in Hokkaido when goign to Sapporo via Super Hokuto. But an actual Relay Kamome train is now in use in Saga when going form Hakkata to Nagasaki you switch to the new N700S there.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/u6_wPGikEpI - How the Dining Cars looked likein the 0 series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfMSffQornk - 20th anniversary onewith interviews of the original people that built it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRVjCaDw-Ro - 30th anniversary onewith interviews of the original people that built it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMQYxhUMv7I - Here a 40th anniversary one with interviews of the original people that built it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-4508zsUNk - A documentary about the 500 series probably the best and most iconic shinaknsen in existence.

>>510108313
Yeah high speed rail in Spain was built in 1950s?
I'll need you to explain this weird ass logic.

You do realize that 300 km/h an hour railways are a 1990s technology for most of Europe right? The world even.
The Japanese Shinkansen didn't cross the 300 barrier until the train I posted the 500 series.
The vast majority of the modern HSR networks around the world are something thats 30-40 years old. We had flights way before that. WAY before that.
China had access to flights and could have opted to go with the military aviation + jet development to produce it's own domestic flight vehicles. It instead opted for HSR.
Japan was the same the Shinkansen project was nearly canceled because they believed flights would be the way to go.

But in the modern day it's painfully obvious how inadequate flights are for actual mass transportation.

Tokyo to Osaka say is with maximum of 70-80 daily flights only at 15,000 people per day. This is with TWO Airprots flying max capacity. Even if they built 4 it would only be 30,000 people per day. This is BOTH WAYS btw.
Meanwhile Tokaido Shinkansen can do like 200,000 a day. And thats Tokyo to Osaka only.

It Tokyo - Osaka Tokaido Shinkansen on average does 450,000 passangers a day.