Great Japanese Railway Journeys
Shimonoseki to Hiroshima
Season 1 Episode 10 of 15
Michael Portillo leaves Kyushu by foot tunnel under the Kanmon straits to arrive on the main island of Honshu at the harbour town of Shimonoseki. Here, he encounters the deadly delicacy of pufferfish. Michael visits Hitachi's Kasado Works, where the iconic Shinkansen high-speed trains are manufactured, before moving on to Hiroshima, where he meets Keiko Ogura, a bomb survivor who was just eight years old on that fateful day
Great Japanese Railway Journeys airs on BBC Two HD at 8:00 AM, Wednesday 15 July. (Subtitles, repeat, sign language, audio description.)
Topics
Leisure hobbies
Tourism ➝ Travel
Michael Portillo
Presenter
Dave Minchin
Director
Alison Kreps
Executive Producer
John Comerford
Executive Producer