The Only BULLET TRAIN in Southeast Asia... Whoosh Indonesia Review!

Our bullet train got so popular, they made a subreddit called Whoosh way before it was even planned 🔥🔥

The reason they staked the terminal far out from urban centers is “you build they’ll come”, a tried and trued vision for decades in China. The location of stations spearheads the local growth.

Building highspeed train station away city centre is one way of keeping the overall cost down and a line actually built. The first time I took China 's 350 km/h train in 2010, the station was far from city center and there was absolutely nothing but farmland around it. In 2018 I returned to take train from the same station, it was connected by subway, very easy to get to and surrounding area were all built up. If such an approach were followed, HS2 might stiil have been alive.

Wow Indonesia has better train than my country greetings from Australia 🇦🇺

As someone from neighbouring Philippines, I feel envious. I hope the trains would be maintained as prescribed so that they would stand the test of time and still feel new through the years to come. Congratulations to my Indonesian brothers/sisters for a successful and well-received high-speed train debut ❤

It's embarrassing how much better this is than US trains, despite the US being the supposedly wealthiest country in the world.

finally a proper professional train reviewer came to Indonesia 🤟👍, Hopefully this opportunity will not be the last time you come to Indonesia again.

13:17 I'm Indonesian resides in Bandung near Tegalluar Station. They choose the area as the terminus station location because in the nearby area, they will build a brand new modern city for business and hopefully the Provincial government complex called Tegalluar City. But the plan is not detailled yet. Nearby the station, there's also a high-class housing complex and large shopping mall which already under construction, a large football stadium in the station access road (Gelora Bandung Lautan Api Stadium), and a new tourist destination not far from the station (Al Jabbar Mosque with beautiful architecture)

Indonesia HSR backed by China: 350 km / hour India HSR backed by Japan : 11 km / 7 years

Finally as Indonesian and railway enthusiast or I would say railfan 🤷🏻‍♂️ I'm glad that proper train review come to Indonesia and ride our train! 🤟🏻 Yes indeed we have many railway enthusiast community here and the train culture is often overlooked, now you just found us.

Yeeeaayy 😂 finally whoooshhh. As far as I know, the argue of positioning a stations far from anywhere is intended to attract development more evenly and not just focus on booth cities of Bandung and Jakarta. Such as Karawang where located outside the Jakarta area, hundreds industries located. Many Japanese, Korean, Chinese and even European expatriates are working in industrial areas but still living in central city, either Jakarta or Bandung. So building a station in far from city area, expected to laverage new cities area, new business center will be built, new hotels, new meeting points, new hospitals, new offices will emerge, which will stimulate economic growth in whole aspects not limited to sell train ticket only

Why Whoosh station in suburban area : 1. If it is build in city center the cost will be very expensive especially for land acquisition. And also traffic nightmare during construction because both Jakarta and Bandung are city with large and dense population 2. Tegalluar station near with Gedebage area. Gedebage is planned to be new administration center for city of Bandung and also Bandung Technopolis 3. Tegalluar located in East Bandung, Padalarang in West Bandung. So this project in the long term also aims to provide equitable development in the Bandung and West Java regions Both Padalarang and Tegalluar station can be reach by multiple type of transportation

Fantastic to see the enthusiasm of Indonesians. It’s great to see the advent of new transit technology in different parts of the world. Congratulations from the EU! Looking forward to your video on the Indian Shinkansen in a few years.

Indonesia finished something that even US can't finish👍🏻

❤love and congratulations to Indonesia From India

And to add, Padalarang makes a lot of sense if you want to connect to the resort region of Lembang. That place gets absolutely rammo during the holidays. Like you say, it would totally make sense to have the trains running to Jogja and Surabaya, since one would argue that Jogja and Solo comprises of the cultural heartland of central Java, with Surabaya also being a major port and centre of commerce. Much like taking the 9:20 from Kings Cross to Edinburgh via York and Newcastle. Similar-ish sorta distances, except you probably won't be subject to a seismic event when you're flying past North Berwick and Dunbar.

Very interesting perspective. They chose to build there because the area was planned to become the new administrative capital of the West Java government. There is a document on the JICA website that states this. I totally agree, they have to extend the line to Surabaya as soon as possible, we are too late.

We Indonesians shall await with great interest on your really honest reviews of the other national train services 😊

Well done Indonesia, something to be proud of. Hopefully the line is extended across Java soon. Oh, how I wish Thailand would speed up their HSR-contruction.

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