JR East offering ‘shinkansen for pets,’ including dog-friendly vacation packages

JR (Japan Railways) East are offering a new tour package that permits pet proprietors to travel on the shinkansen with their pets in tow. While the package deal is becoming billed as Japan’s very first “shinkansen for pets,” the promotional photographs and name “Woof-cation” propose that the tour is aimed at puppy house owners.

Recent teach recommendations point out that passengers touring with animals must continue to keep them in cages for the duration of their journey, but the new Woof-cation chartered shinkansen practice service will allow 40 minutes of “relatives time,” throughout which travellers can appreciate the vacation with their canine out of the cage, be it on their lap or on a coated seat.

The Woof-cation chartered Shinkansen will take passengers from Tokyo’s Ueno Station to Karuizawa Metropolis in Nagano Prefecture, where by they will commit the evening at a single of two pet-pleasant accommodations that present services for puppy proprietors — the Karuizawa Prince Hotel East Puppy Cottage, which provides solutions for canine friends on arrival this kind of as nail clipping, ear cleaning and other treatment options, or the Dog Dept Back garden Hotel, a freshly designed resort-fashion advanced with an open terrace café, cafe, and an all-temperature indoor doggy operate.

▼ Rooms in the Puppy Dept Backyard Resort

▼ The Karuizawa Prince Lodge East Canine Cottage has a cabin-like sense.

Upon arriving in Karuizawa, attendees can acquire component in a photoshoot with a qualified photographer in the hotel’s canine operate, followed by a instruction course for the dogs, with a personal evening get together to complete. Skilled trainers and veterinarians will be current for the run of the tour, and attendees can get pleasure from socialising with other puppy fans, as effectively as permitting their dogs hang out and have enjoyable jointly as well.

The tour will acquire area on May 21, with rates commencing at 106,000 yen for each human pair or 67,000 for each human being. The tour is also constrained to 30 pairs, and any one fascinated in having a coach journey with their pooch can use by using the web page.

Company should be mindful that this is a check run for probable foreseeable future tours, and as such the media will be there filming and having pictures, so you are going to want to make positive your prized pup is camera ready before having on the train.

Resource: JR East via NetLab

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