Starting in the spring of 2024, smoking rooms on Shinkansen trains will no longer be provided and smoking will become completely non-smoking.

11号車入り口、10号車の喫煙ルームに近い位置Entrance to Car 11, near smoking room of Car 10 Japan Information
11号車入り口、10号車の喫煙ルームに近い位置Entrance to Car 11, near smoking room of Car 10
新幹線の車両案内図10号車に喫煙ルームが表示されているSmoking room is shown on Shinkansen train car map No. 10.
新幹線の車両案内図10号車に喫煙ルームが表示されているSmoking room is shown on Shinkansen train car map No. 10.

JR Tokai, JR West, and JR Kyushu have announced that smoking rooms in their trains will be completely eliminated in the spring of 2024.

On October 17, 2023, JR Tokai, JR West, and JR Kyushu announced that smoking rooms currently provided in the Tokaido Shinkansen, Sanyo Shinkansen, and Kyushu Shinkansen trains will be completely abolished in the spring of 2024. The Tohoku Shinkansen, Joetsu Shinkansen, Akita Shinkansen, and Yamagata Shinkansen have already eliminated smoking seats and smoking rooms since 2007. Therefore, from the spring of 2024, smoking will be completely prohibited on all Shinkansen lines in Japan.

As of October 2023, smoking rooms have been installed in three locations on the Tokaido Shinkansen, three locations on the Sanyo Shinkansen for 16-car trains, and two locations for 8-car trains. All of these will be discontinued.

Sanyo Shinkansen also eliminated smoking corners at stations

In addition, on the Sanyo Shinkansen, non-smoking areas at Shin-Kurashiki, Shin-Omichi, Mihara, Higashi-Hiroshima, Shin-Iwakuni, Tokuyama, Asa, and Shin-Shimonoseki stations will be discontinued.

This response is based on the growing health consciousness and the declining smoking rate. After the smoking rooms are eliminated, the company plans to place emergency drinking water and other items in the rooms in preparation for disasters, a move that is also a preparation for disasters.

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