Great Japanese Railway Journeys TV Listings

Great Japanese Railway Journeys TV listings this week

Great Japanese Railway Journeys is scheduled to air at these times (may include spoilers):

• Wed 8

  8:00 am ends 8:30 am

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  Arita to Fukuoka — Great Japanese Railway Journeys

  Season 1 · Episode 9

  Michael Portillo arrives in the home of Japanese porcelain, Arita, where a railway line runs straight through the town's stunning porcelain Shinto shrine. He also stays in a traditional hotel with paper walls and tatami mats where he enjoys a relaxing soak in a natural thermal bath. Michael ends this leg in Fukuoka, Japan's fasting-growing city, full of young Japanese who flock there for the food culture and entrepreneurial spirit

  More details for Great Japanese Railway Journeys, Wed 8, 8:00 am
• Wed 15

  8:00 am ends 8:30 am

  2 102

  

  Shimonoseki to Hiroshima — Great Japanese Railway Journeys

  Season 1 · Episode 10

  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

  More details for Great Japanese Railway Journeys, Wed 15, 8:00 am