Designer and illustrator Eiji Mitooka, the creative mind behind some of Japan’s most luxurious trains, still has grand designs for the future of the country’s sightseeing railways.Mitooka, whose design work includes luxury trains, Seven Stars in Kyushu and The Royal Express, began designing rolling stock in the late 1980s.Seeking to revive its fortunes following the privatization of Japanese National Railways, struggling operator Kyushu Railway Co., Mitooka says, gave him plenty of freedom for his first train project, the now-retired Aqua Express which went into service in 1988…READ FULL ARTICLE
