Are there electrical plugs and/or wifi in Japanese shinkansen?

5/18/2016 11:54:58 AM

Sitting on a Kodama now and can’t find any unfortunately, for future reference.

11/22/2015 11:30:04 AM

For online resources, this Japanese page has a list. The train names might survive Google or other machine-translations.

11/22/2015 11:23:45 AM

The E5 and E6 series used in northern Japan (Tohoku Shinkansen; Komachi, Hayabusa, some Hayate) have a pair of 100V outlets for the front row of each car, and a single outlet beneath the window on the other rows on each side. Note that since the seats rotate, there are also two outlets behind the back row of each car, although they would be inconvenient to access.

11/22/2015 11:12:11 AM

I can verify that the N700a trains have power sockets for the seats at the ends of the cars. Look at the bottom of the side wall under the window near your feet. Plugged in right now, actually 🙂

1/18/2012 8:49:39 AM

There is indeed very little information about this online.

A question asked prior to 2003 on the site ‘www.h2.dion.ne.jp’ (no longer online):

Q: Do shinkansen trains have power outlet sockets for running laptop
computers?

A: Generally, no, although the latest 700 series trains
running on JR West Hikari Rail Star services do have power outlet
sockets.

Wikipedia confirms that the most 700 series models have power outlets for passengers.

  • Hikari 546 is a N700 which have power outlets.
  • Hikari 470 is a 700 which most likely have power outlets.
  • Max Toki 329 seems to be an E4 series which is not likely to have
    power outlets.

Only the N700 trains between Tokyo and Osaka have Wifi, and you still have to pay for it before you board the train using one of the Japanese carriers like Wi2 or Hotspot

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