01 / RAINBOW
No two rainbows are the same.
Six windows, each with a different place, a different amount of rain, a different angle of light. Press play and the video loads from the original post.
YOUTUBE · SHINAGAWA
A rainbow from the Shinkansen
akkiihiking · filmed on 7 January Watch the original ↗新幹線から虹が見えた🌈いいことありそう❣️E席サイコー！
— iyoriliryco (@mwWCISYETxuycVj) 2023年12月2日
新幹線から見えた虹🌈✨ お友達と大感動でした😃
— じゅんのこ (@tag_jun29) 元投稿
SOURCES
- A rainbow that stayed in view for about 40 seconds from a Kodama near Odawara — Hamajima Shoten YPC (Japanese) ↗
- Riding through a rainbow over the Ukishima paddy fields — the original article (Japanese) ↗
02 / SNOW
Sekigahara disappears into white.
Between Nagoya and Kyoto, for a few minutes, the window turns into snow country.
5 February 2022 · between Nagoya and Kyoto (exact point unknown) · Photo: Shinkansen Window — see them larger on X ↗
The snow changes as you go
YOUTUBE · NEAR MAIBARA
Snow from the train window
G3from1967 · published January 2021 Watch the original ↗新幹線車窓から ④ 伊吹山等々。やっぱり凄い雪です。スプリンクラーがバシバシ当たります。
— てらちゃん (@730AEVA) 2021年12月28日
SOURCES
- Why sprinklers spray the Sekigahara section, and why trains slow down in snow — JR Central on stable transport (Japanese) ↗
- Gifu-Hashima to Maibara: the Sekigahara prefectural border under snow — a lineside record (Japanese) ↗
03 / CLOUDS OF FUJI
Mt. Fuji puts on a hat you have never seen.
Lenticular clouds, the kind that sit still while the sky moves: a cap cloud on the summit (kasagumo), a Tsurushi cloud hanging downwind (tsurushigumo), a Hata cloud streaming off the ridge like a flag (hatagumo). The mountain makes them itself, and never the same way twice.
年明けお伊勢さんに向かう新幹線で出逢った素敵な富士山🗻 #富士山 #笠雲 #天使の輪
— 荒木尚子 (@arakihisako) 元投稿
YOUTUBE · LENTICULAR CLOUD
A lenticular cloud over Mt. Fuji
hiroe uehara · published July 2020 Watch the original ↗YOUTUBE · CAP CLOUD
A hat? Smoke? Mt. Fuji, changed
こっとん健児チャンネル · published December 2020 Watch the original ↗SOURCES
- Three years of camera observations of the cap, Tsurushi and Hata clouds, and the conditions each one needs — Kusaka, University of Tsukuba, in Weather (2025) ↗
- Telling cap, lenticular and banner clouds apart, and how each one forms — MLIT Fuji Sabo Office (Japanese) ↗
- Layer after layer of lenticular cloud around Mt. Fuji — Weathernews (Japanese) ↗
04 / LIGHTNING
For one second, the sky splits.
Lightning is the hardest of these to find a record of. It lasts so little that by the time the shutter opens, it is already gone.
YOUTUBE · 22 AUG 2017 · NOZOMI 246
A supercell, seen from the Tokaido Shinkansen
T.sound channel · from near Gifu-Hashima through Nagoya to just before Mikawa-Anjo Watch the original ↗YOUTUBE · NOZOMI 54 · POSTED JULY 2024
Lightning from the window of Nozomi 54
kaomaru42 Watch the original ↗YOUTUBE · NOZOMI 54 · POSTED JULY 2024
Lightning from Nozomi 54 (second clip)
kaomaru42 Watch the original ↗SOURCES
- The same supercell, re-cut in extreme slow motion by the same channel — T.sound channel ↗
- Thunder days peak in winter on the Sea of Japan side and in summer inland — JMA on thunder observation and statistics (Japanese) ↗
- A 1 km grid, updated every 10 minutes, one hour ahead: check the sky over the route before you board — JMA Thunder Nowcast (Japanese) ↗
ANOTHER ANGLE
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