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TEMPO.CO , Yamanashi - While it has a ' bullet train ' Shinkansen , the Japanese apparently did not give up to innovate . Now , the country has been designing Sunrise Magnetic Levitation Train aka Floating Magnet , Compared bullet train , the Maglev train has three differences ; speeds , machinist and technology .Maglev speeds reaching 500 miles per hour . While the bullet train speed is about 350 per hour . Later , ride the Maglev feels like an F1 driver overtaking . With Maglev , distance Yogya - Jakarta can be reached in just over an hour .Last week , Central Japan Railway Co. aka JR Tokai prototie Maglev train exhibit . This looks like a wagon train Shinkansen , just that , in part machinist no glass . Her nose is longer , and smaller passenger glass . This is to reduce the consumption of glass , which also reduces weight .As a result , this reduces the power consumption as fuel . Maglev body will use paduaan strong aluminum , carbon - fiber plastics used in aircraft wings . With this material , he achieved the speed can be maximized up to 500 kilometers per hour .This speed is not operated by the driver. But by the computer at the control center . With normal eyes , almost impossible to see clearly the rail track at speeds of 500 miles per hour . Instead, will be installed in front of the camera to monitor if there is a dangerous object in front of the train . The camera is planted in the ' nose ' train .This train can go fast because it does not ' landed ' on the rail . Magnet technology makes it float above the rails . Making it lighter to accelerate Maglev .But the technology is not cheap . Because it is expensive , these Maglev train type was ignored for decades . The only commercially operated Maglev only in China , which drove a distance of no more than 20 km .To realize this the fastest Japanese Maglev train , supposedly the government must spend up to U.S. $ 64 billion, or around Rp 600 trillion . Japan itself most quickly to operate in 2027 . " We want to improve it before use to the public , " said center director Yamanashi test , Yasukazu Endo .