A smoking room on a Tokaido line bullet train, which will no longer allow smoking on board. - PHOTO: JTKANM13/X via The Straits Times/ANN
TOKYO (The Straits Times): Bullet trains in Japan have went smoke-free since March 16, with the ban on smoking leaving casual and habitual smokers without room to take a puff on the move.
The change for passengers came as the Tokaido, Sanyo and Kyushu lines, scrapped enclosed “smoking rooms” on their trains, a move their train operator Japan Railway (JR) announced in October which removed the last vestiges of smoking on trains.
