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JR West to Operate Special Express Trains Wrapped with Designs of Four Matsuba Crab Brands
JR West will operate express trains wrapped in crab designs from November 7th, 2024, to around March 2025, coinciding with the ‘Crab Crab Day Trip Express’.
The designs feature four brands of Matsuba crabs, a specialty of the northern Hyogo Prefecture’s Tajima region. The trains in question are Series 289 (consisting of four cars), with wrapping applied to cars 1 and 4. They will run as the “Kounotori” between Shin-Osaka and Kinosaki Onsen Station and as the “Kinosaki” between Kyoto and Kinosaki Onsen Station.
Additionally, the melody of PUFFY’s ‘Nagisa ni Matsuwaru Et Cetera’ will be used as the pre-arrival chime inside the trains at stations such as Fukuchiyama, Toyooka, and Kinosaki Onsen. The trains involved include certain Kounotori, Kinosaki, Hashidate, Super Hakuto, Hamakaze, and Crab Crab Hamakaze express trains. This feature will be available from November 7th, 2024, to around March 2025.
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