Now in Japan you will be able to enjoy a very particular service dedicated to those who take their work with them on their travels, especially for videoconferences.
Since 2020 smoking has been prohibited on Japanese trains, and that is why the old smoking rooms are being converted into curious rooms for videoconferencing or to telecommute, the clients enjoying a series of advantages that are not found in the rest of the wagons.
If you like to travel by train, surely you have ever taken out your laptop, you have connected it to the train’s Wi-Fi, you have even plugged it into the seat to avoid losing battery, but it is likely that the connection speed did not seem anything to you from the other world, and perhaps the rest of the passengers have directed their eyes on more than one occasion to the screen of your laptop, feeling uncomfortable.
And worst of all, is that when you have had a video conference by applications like ZoomIt seemed that you were being watched from anywhere, lacking that privacy that you need so much.
As they report from TheRegister, the Central Japan Railway Company is introducing the wagons S-Work, some wagons that differ in several respects from the rest.
These new wagons offer Wi-Fi speed that is twice as fast as that found in regular carriages. If that’s not enough, each of the seats also has its own charging port so you never run out of battery.
The crew can also lend customers mice so that they can more easily navigate through their laptop, they even offer a tray to put down the PC.
At the moment there is only one bullet train in all of Japan that offers this service, specifically the N700S and that it is limited to a couple of routes, but it seems that if this project is successful, it could be extended to other bullet trains in the country offering this service to certain wagons.