Launched in May 2017, The Shiki-Shima is Japan’s new most luxurious technological creation. The new 10-car sleeper train, is luxury travel on wheels: from its champagne-gold exterior, opulent suites, Michelin-starred chefs and uniformed butlers to its futuristic observation cars, lacquerware latticework and, in one suite, an aromatic cypress wood bath. The train will carry up to 34 passengers, have 10 sleeper cars traveling from Tokyo across the northern Tohoku region.