Sunflower and Yellow-Colored Train

A rare view of a yellow-colored inspection train for Japan’s Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train line passing sunflowers blooming on fallow paddy fields has attracted visitors. About 600 people, including amateur photographers and families, visited the 3.2-hectare site in Ogaki City, Gifu Prefecture in central Japan. They took pictures of the diagnostic train dubbed “Doctor Yellow”.

These trains are used on the Tokaido and Sanyo Shinkansen lines to check the condition of tracks and other facilities. They make inspection trips about every 10 days. The sunflowers are currently in full bloom at the site and have grown about 130 centimeters tall. Local residents plant about 140,000 of them each year.