JP-605375 Type E3 of the East Japan Railway Company

East Japan Railway Company  (東日本旅客鉄道株式会社) is a major passenger railway company in Japan and one of the seven Japan Railways Group companies. The company name is officially abbreviated as JR East in English and as JR Higashi-Nihon (JR東日本) in Japanese. JR East was incorporated on 1 April 1987 after being spun off from the government-run Japanese National Railways (JNR). JR East operates all of the Shinkansen, high-speed rail lines, north of Tokyo.

Some notes of the Type E3 Mini-Shinkansen

Currently the Type E3 trains are run as  6- and 7-car train sets. The Type E3 was introduced in 1997 and this type of train is run on the Tōhoku, Akita and Yamagata lines.  The top speeds are 275 kph (Tōhoku) and 130 kph on the Akita and Yamagata lines.

This postcard came on (18 November 2014) Postcrossing.