WHEEL COLLECTION
Ferris wheel collection
Record each wheel you spot and your medal grows.
Hirakata Park shares its record with the stamp in your Window Stamps.
TOKYO → SHIN-OSAKA
Follow the wheels west
Each wheel shows an estimated passing time for a Tokyo-departing Nozomi and its distance from the line. Toward Tokyo the order reverses, but the seat side stays the same. Weather and intervening buildings affect distant views.
Fuji Sky View Ferris Wheel
A small wheel beyond the pipe bridge
As the train crosses the Fuji River, look beyond the white pipe bridge on the Seat E side. Fuji Sky View, at the Tokyo-bound Fujikawa service area, appears as a small distant wheel: one more detail in the river-and-mountain panorama.
Open the window guideOpen the location in Google Maps ↗Look around in Street View ↗Official visitor information (Japanese) ↗
Nonhoi Park
A wheel before Toyohashi
Just before Toyohashi, on the Seat A side, a white wheel stands beyond the roofs of houses and factories. It sits against the sky, so its shape reads even on a cloudy day.
Sighting: 新幹線の車窓から 099 (Japanese) ↗Open the location in Google Maps ↗Look around in Street View ↗Official visitor information (Japanese) ↗
Laguna Ten Bosch
Look toward the coastal town
The wheel at Laguna Ten Bosch stands in coastal Gamagori. On the Seat A side it rises white beyond apartment blocks and fields; it stands taller than the buildings around it, so it is easier to pick out than its distance suggests.
Sighting: 新幹線の車窓から 099 (Japanese) ↗Open the location in Google Maps ↗Look around in Street View ↗Official visitor information (Japanese) ↗
Horiuchi Park
A park wheel joins the journey
Horiuchi Park in Anjo has a Ferris wheel too. It appears small beyond the houses on the Seat A side before Mikawa-Anjo. Lower than the Laguna wheel, it blends easily into the buildings.
Sighting: 新幹線の車窓から 099 (Japanese) ↗Open the location in Google Maps ↗Look around in Street View ↗Official visitor information (Japanese) ↗
Nagoya Port Sea Train Land
A tiny ring in the distance
Around the Horikawa River, a faint outline of a wheel appears between buildings on the Seat A side. It is the most distant of the six and hard to catch with the naked eye. On Tokyo-bound trains it comes just after Nagoya. Accounts suggest dawn light or the evening illumination make it easier to find, while daytime tends to be backlit.
Sighting: 新幹線の車窓から 115 (Japanese) ↗Further reading: a blog account of this wheel from the window (Japanese) ↗Open the location in Google Maps ↗Look around in Street View ↗Official visitor information (Japanese) ↗
Hirakata Park
Across the Yodo River
Sky Walker appears across the Yodo River: a small ring among buildings and pylons. At night, the lit wheel floats alone on the dark far bank.
Open the window guideOpen the location in Google Maps ↗Look around in Street View ↗Official visitor information (Japanese) ↗
OSAKA WHEEL at EXPOCITY
One more wheel, on the other side
From Seat E at Torikai depot, look behind the buildings beyond the parked trains for the small EXPOCITY wheel. It may be partly hidden: use the photograph to find the gap.
On 10 September 2026, the official website listed a suspension of operations. Visibility from the train does not imply that the attraction or its lighting is operating.
Sighting: Zusshi, “I saw the Ferris wheel from the Shinkansen” (Japanese) ↗Open the location in Google Maps ↗Look around in Street View ↗Seat side confirmed by Suita City newsletter, July 2024, p. 8 (Japanese PDF) ↗Official tourism information ↗
About this collection
The estimated times, seat sides and distances are calculated by projecting each facility onto our track data, which is built from recorded GPS rides. They assume a 147-minute Nozomi between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka; trains with more stops or delays will differ.
Facility coordinates come from the Japanese Wikipedia, except Hirakata Park, which uses our own spot data.
If you have photographed one of these wheels from the train, we would love to hear from you. Contact