How Japan is Building a $72B Train that Flies Through a Mountain

The wheels just retracted. This train is now floating . Nobody builds trains like this . 603 km hour. The fastest thing ever built that runs on the ground. . Japan has been building this for 60 years . Most people have never heard of it . 86% of this railway goes through Solid Mountain . There was no other way. . Started at $9 billion, now $72 billion . Still climbing, still being built . They drilled 246 km of tunnel through the hardest mountains in Japan . The geology collapsed. The schedule collapsed . The cost exploded . They kept going. Colder than outer space . This is what makes the train float . One governor, one signature . He stopped a $72 billion . This is how Japan built the fastest thing on land and why it nearly never happened . 1964, Japan launched the bullet train . It changed the world . Then Japan asked, "What's next?" The Tokaido Shinkansen is full . 12 trains per hour. No . No more capacity . Japan needed a bypass. The . The coastal route curves around the mountains . The magv cuts straight through them . Research began in 1962. . It took 63 years to turn those equations into a railway . 1977, the first test track, 7 km in Miyazaki . The first levitation, the first proof it worked