World's Most Punctual Train - Japan's Shinkansen

The team talk to a wasabi farmer, meet the finest woodcarvers in Japan, see how one of the world's last giant taiko drums is made, test-ride a nearly perfect futuristic train and learn the secrets of world-class entertainers from a young geisha.

Explores routes of the Sanyo Shinkansen that link the two biggest cities in the west of Japan, Osaka and Fukuoka. The team also interact with a young woman in Hiroshima who preserves the stories of the atomic bomb victims.