This book is a photo collection from a journey to the central island of Japan, Honshū, from Tokyo to Hiroshima with start in Osaka.
The transports were done primarily with Shinkansen, the fantastic high speed train system that was introduced already in 1964.
Shinkansen is also called ”bullet trains” and may reach 300 km/hour.
The first 15 pages are available in preview, however those pages says almost nothing about the content in rest of the book.