Genbi Shinkansen Inauguration Commemorative Admission Ticket Set, Published by JR East Niigata Branch, April 29, 2016, 2-fold mount + 10-ticket set

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Genbi Shinkansen Inauguration Commemorative Admission Ticket Set 🎨
Published by JR East Niigata Branch
April 29, 2016
2-fold mount + 10-ticket set

"The World's Fastest Art Appreciation"—A commemorative admission ticket set for the launch of the Genbi Shinkansen, which debuted on the Joetsu Shinkansen between Echigo-Yuzawa and Niigata on April 29, 2016. A 10-ticket set featuring 5 stations in two versions each—English logo and Kanji—as specified for the debut day. 🎫

[Contents and Commentary] 🧐
◯ Includes 5 stations: Echigo-Yuzawa, Urasa, Nagaoka, Tsubame-Sanjo, and Niigata, with 2 versions for each station.
—A total of 10 tickets: the "GENBI SHINKANSEN" English logo version and the "Genbi Shinkansen" Kanji version.

◯ Each admission ticket is a standard 140-yen ticket. Valid from April 29 to June 30, 2016 (valid for one entry within 2 hours of the time of entry). Unused items dated for the debut day (28-4.29).

◯ Operated approximately 120 days a year, mainly on weekends and holidays. Reached 100,000 passengers in December 2018.
◯ Operation ended (last run) on December 20, 2020, due to the aging of the train cars. The curtain closed on four and a half years of service. All cars were scrapped and dismantled in March 2021. This set, complete with both English and Kanji versions, remains as a record of a train that no longer runs.
◯ The illustration on the mount and cover is a work by Brian Alfred.

An artist who also created the video work for Car 16.
◯ The exterior of the Genbi Shinkansen was designed by Mika Ninagawa.
It features a wrap design depicting Nagaoka fireworks on a black base.
◯ The train was a 6-car formation (Cars 11-16) converted from the E3 series 0-subseries (R19 formation).
Converted from cars manufactured in 2002 for the Akita Shinkansen "Komachi" service.
◯ The interior art for each car was created by Nao Matsumoto, Yusuke Komuta, Kentaro Kobuke, Naoki Ishikawa, Akika Kojin, and Brian Alfred.
Designed so that the ride itself becomes an art experience.
◯ Car 13 featured a cafe. It served coffee supervised by Tsubame Coffee (Tsubame-Sanjo) and sweets from Tokamachi.

📖 A "cross-section of history" told by paper
The train has been dismantled and no longer runs. Here are the commemorative tickets from the very first day of the "moving art museum" that you can no longer ride or see. A complete set of 10 tickets in two versions, English and Kanji—a collection that captures the excitement of its debut.

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