Car facilities
Car No.1 Premium Green
Travel in your own relaxing, private space with separate single seats in each row. Gaze out through the impressive windows and enjoy a top-quality journey as the sunlight streams in through the skylights.
create a roomy private space
(Operate via the lever on the headrest)
Spec of the seats
Point1
Point2
Point3
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Point1
Reclining and reading light buttons
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Point2
Table in arm rest
Open the flap on the arm rest to pull out a small table for drinks.
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Point3
Electrical outlet
Point4
Point5
Point6
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Point4
Seat rotation lever
Rotate your seat by moving it while pulling the handle.
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Point5
Cup holder and table in arm rest
Open the flap next to the cup holder to pull out the table.
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Point6
Luggage space
Cars No.2 and 3 Green Car private compartments
Enjoy a relaxing time with good friends or beloved family members in a Green Car private compartment until you reach your destination. There are two types of rooms: ones for 1-4 people and ones for 1-6 people. Luxuriate in a secluded space designed to feel like a quiet, relaxing cafe.
*Green Car private compartment tickets are not available on JR-EAST Train Reservation.
They can only be purchased at JR Ticket Offices (Midori-no-madoguchi) or reserved seat ticket vending machines.
for a more intimate space (for 1 to 4 people)
up to 6 people (for 1 to 6 people)
Car No.4 Cafeteria
The cafeteria offers a limited menu that will brighten your journey to Izu, served from an open plan kitchen. Enjoy the taste of our special dishes while gazing out at Sagami Bay.
Cars No.5 through 8 Green Cars
With comfortable and spacious seating of a twin and a single in each row, these cars offer a pleasant space where sunlight from the skylights pours through the glass luggage shelves.
and a single in each row
Spec of the seats
Point1
Point2
Point3
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Point1
Reclining and reading light buttons
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Point2
Electrical outlet
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Point3
Table in arm rest
Open the flap on the arm rest to pull out a small table for drinks.
Point4
Point5
Point6
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Point4
Coat hook
This hook can be used to hang small items.
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Point5
Seat back table
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Point6
Cup holder
Pull towards you to provide a space for placing drinks.
Other facilities
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Design by
Kiyoyuki Ken Okuyama
In charge of design production and car design. CEO of KEN OKUYAMA DESIGN Born in Yamagata in 1959.
Has worked as chief designer at General Motors (USA), senior designer at Porsche (Germany), and design director at Pininfarina (Italy), and chaired the Industrial Design Department at ArtCenter College of Design (USA). Has worked on the design of cars such as the Enzo Ferrari and Maserati Quattroporte, and of Ducati and other motorbikes, as well as on many designs in fields such as railways, ships, architecture, robots, and theme parks. Since 2007, as the CEO of KEN OKUYAMA DESIGN, he has been based in Yamagata, Tokyo and Los Angeles, where he provides corporate consulting services as well as doing everything from development to marketing work for the KEN OKUYAMA brand of automobiles, interior products, and eyewear. He became a director of Yanmar Holdings Co., Ltd. in 2013. He has worked successively on the design of the Akita Shinkansen, the Hokuriku Shinkansen, Yamanote Line trains, the Train Suite Shiki-shima, and on Yanmar products.
Honorary principal of the Tokyo Communication Art, Jikei COM Group, visiting professor at ArtCenter College of Design, visiting professor at Yamagata University Faculty of Engineering, member of the JR East urban development committee, producer of the ARITA 400 Project held between 2013 and 2016 to celebrate 400 years of Arita porcelain.
He also gives lectures, and his published works include “Ferrari and the Iron Kettle” (PHP Publications), “Tradition Counterattacks” (Shodensha), “15 Minutes that Determined My Life: Creation 1/10,000” (KEN OKUYAMA DESIGN), “Designing a Century of Value” (PHP Business Publications), and “Design as a Business Weapon” (Shodensha).
Car layout
- Car layout
- E261
- No. of cars
- 2 sets of 8 cars
Car No.1: Premium Green Car (two separate single seats in each row)
Cars No.2 and 3: Green Car private compartments
Car No.4: Cafeteria
Cars No.5 through 8: Green Car (a twin seat and a single seat in each row) - Capacity
- 164 passengers
- Car No.1 Premium Green (20 passengers)
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- Car No.2 Green Car private compartments (20 passengers)
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- Car No.3 Green Car private compartments (20 passengers)
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- Car No.4 Cafeteria
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- Car No.5 Green Car (14 passengers)
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- Car No.6 Green Car (36 passengers)
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- Car No.7 Green Car (30 passengers)
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- Car No.8 Green Car (24 passengers)
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