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Modi leaves for Kobe aboard bullet train in Tokyo

Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is meeting his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe for the annual India-Japan bilateral summit, arrived at…

Modi leaves for Kobe aboard bullet train in Tokyo

Photo: PIB

Prime Minister Narendra Modi,
who is meeting his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe for the annual India-Japan
bilateral summit, arrived at Tokyo Station to board the Shinkansen bullet train
on Saturday.

“Putting #IndiaJapan
relations on the fast track! PM @narendramodi and PM @AbeShinzo arrive at Tokyo
Station to board the Shinkansen,” External Affairs Ministry spokesperson
Vikas Swarup tweeted.

“A unique friendship on
a unique train journey. PM @narendramodi and PM @AbeShinzo inside the
Shinkansen bullet train to Kobe,” Swarup said in another tweet accompanied
by a picture of the two leaders inside the train.

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Modi, accompanied by Abe,
will travel to Kobe using the bullet train. The same technology will be
deployed for the Mumbai-Ahmedabad High-Speed Railway.

Saturday is the last day of
the three-day summit.
Modi, who arrived here on Thursday, started Friday
by calling on Japanese Emperor Akihito.

This is his second visit to
Japan in two years.

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