The reason Japanese trainers sat on the tracks watching trains run

A Japanese railway company has asked its employees to sit next to the railroad when high speed trains (bullet trains) pass through tunnels at speeds of up to 300km / h.

Graphic of the maintenance experience of observing train crews running at JR West.(Photo: Twitter).

Nearly 200 maintenance staff of JR West have undergone this strange training, the Daily Mail said.

JR West launched a training course to observe Shinkansen high-speed trains in 2016, following an accident in August 2015.

According to a spokesman for JR West, the purpose of the training is to teach maintenance staff about the importance of the work they undertake.

However, not everyone welcomes this idea."It was a terrible experience , " Tokyo Shimbun quoted an employee of JR West.

Another person described the feeling of sitting next to a railroad observing a high-speed train like "being beaten by a council".

Despite complaints from some employees, JR West said there was no plan to change the training course.