Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is on a two-day visit to Japan, took a bullet train ride with Japanese PM Shigeru Ishiba on Saturday. He also met Indian train drivers currently undergoing training at East Japan Railway Company.
PM Modi and his Japanese counterpart were headed to Sendai City in Japan.
Sharing pictures from the ride on his X (formerly Twitter) account, the Japanese PM wrote, “With Prime Minister Modi to Sendai. Continuing from last night, I will be with you in the car.”
モディ首相と仙台へ。昨夜に引き続き、車内からご一緒します。 pic.twitter.com/ggE6DonklN
---Advertisement---— 石破茂 (@shigeruishiba) August 30, 2025
PM Modi too shared some pictures, saying: “Reached Sendai. Travelled with PM Ishiba to this city on the Shinkansen.”
Reached Sendai. Travelled with PM Ishiba to this city on the Shinkansen.@shigeruishiba pic.twitter.com/qBc4bU1Pdt
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 30, 2025
Earlier on Saturday, Modi held a meeting with the governors of sixteen Japanese prefectures in Tokyo. During the interaction, Modi “highlighted the potential of states-prefectures collaboration and in this regard urged action under the State-Prefecture Partnership Initiative launched during the 15th India-Japan Annual Summit for shared progress,” said Ministry of External Affairs spokesperson Randhir Jaiswal in a post on X.
Sharing pictures from the meet, Modi said, “State-prefecture cooperation is a vital pillar of India-Japan friendship. This is also why a separate initiative on it was launched during the 15th Annual India-Japan Summit yesterday.”
“There is immense scope to cooperate in areas like trade, innovation, entrepreneurship and more. Futuristic sectors like Startups, tech and AI, too, can be beneficial,” he added.
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