Japan Railways offering ‘Shinkansen for Pets’, includes dog-friendly vacation packages

The ‘Woof-cation‘ package incorporates a photographer, veterinarian and puppy coach.

JR (Japan Railways) East are featuring a new tour bundle that allows pet homeowners to journey on the Shinkansen with their pets in tow. When the deal is currently being billed as ‘Japan’s first Shinkansen for animals‘, the advertising photos and identify ‘Woof-cation’ advise that the tour is aimed at canine house owners.

Present practice suggestions condition that travellers travelling with animals should keep them in cages for the length of their journey, but the new ‘Woof-cation’ chartered Shinkansen prepare services will permit 40 minutes of ‘family time’, throughout which passengers can delight in the excursion with their pet dogs out of the cage, be it on their lap or on a coated seat.

The Woof-cation chartered Shinkansen will get travellers from Tokyo’s Ueno Station to Karuizawa City in Nagano Prefecture, in which they will expend the evening at a single of two pet-pleasant accommodations that give solutions for dog proprietors — the Karuizawa Prince Hotel East Pet dog Cottage, which provides companies for canine guests on arrival this sort of as nail clipping, ear cleansing and other solutions, or the Dog Dept Yard Resort, a newly created resort-design complex with an open up terrace café, restaurant, and an all-weather indoor dog operate.

▼ Rooms in the Dog Dept Backyard Hotel

▼ The Karuizawa Prince Resort East Dog Cottage has a cabin-like really feel

Upon arriving in Karuizawa, visitors can choose element in a photoshoot with a skilled photographer in the hotel’s doggy run, followed by a teaching course for the canines, with a personal evening get together to complete. Professional trainers and veterinarians will be present for the operate of the tour, and guests can delight in socialising with other dog lovers, as perfectly as permitting their puppies hold out and have fun alongside one another far too.

The tour will just take place on May possibly 21, 2022, with rates starting at 106,000 yen (US$812) for each human couple or 67,000 (US$513) for every person. The tour is also confined to 30 pairs, and any person fascinated in using a practice journey with their pooch can implement by way of the website.

Company should really be aware that this is a take a look at run for possible foreseeable future excursions, and as these types of the media will be there filming and getting shots, so you’ll want to make confident your prized pup is digicam completely ready ahead of obtaining on the teach!

Relevant: Karuizawa Prince Hotel East Dog Cottage scheduling website
Supply: JR East by means of NetLab
Images: JR East push launch
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