Shanghai MAGLEV TRAIN REVIEW - The FASTEST Train in the WORLD at 431km/h (268mph) | Shanghai, China

The Shanghai Maglev train is the fastest train in the world and you have to do it when you come to Shanghai. You have to. Hey what's up everyone this is David Hoffman from David's Bin here in Shanghai, China. I just arrived and today what we're going to do is I'm going to take you into Shanghai using the fastest train in the world, the SMT, the Shanghai Maglev train. It's the first and only Maglev train in the world commercially operated and it goes like 431 kilometers per hour. I mean this thing flies. It takes only eight minutes to get from here to Shanghai. It is the fastest train in the world guys. I'm so excited. They're going to do this also in Japan but here they I think it launched December 31st 2002 so it's been running almost 20 years and it's the only one in the world. The only commercially operated Maglev in the world. It's so fast. It's like 267 miles per hour. I'm beyond excited to ride this thing. Unfortunately it's only eight minutes. I wish it was like we're traveling across you know the country and it would take like two hours and you travel everywhere but yeah I'm excited. I mean this is the fastest way to enter the city. From there we get to a station. It's a little hard to pronounce but it's a main station in the center of Shanghai and from there you can get on the metro line. You can catch buses. The ticket for the Maglev costs 50 yen for regular economy or 100 for VIP and that's one way. You can get round trip but round trip is only like you can only use it for seven days and I'm not gonna come back in seven days. I come back in 10 days so I couldn't get the round trip so it's 100 yen which is not bad. I think the exchange rate right now is six to one so it's like I don't know what that is like 14 bucks right now. It's pretty good. There's one every 15 to 20 minutes so there's like never-ending Maglevs coming in and out so it's really easy to get on it you know you probably would never miss it. So VIP is car number one and there's no one here like I'm completely alone. Guys this is so cool. I am alone on this cart and we're leaving any second now and right here as you can see it tells you exactly how fast you're going so when I see you go up to 430 kilometers 430 kilometers 267 miles an hour eight minutes only eight minute ride I can like record the whole time and see how this works out. This is so cool guys it's so cool Maglev train I'm so excited like for real it's going so fast we're already going 135 kilometers keeps going up keeps going up up up up up wow we're just zipping through I never and you can't hear anything it's like it's way less sound than the bullet train for sure and yeah it's way easier to do this I mean the only problem is once we get there we have to like obviously get an uber or metro or bus but that's fine I mean this is the experience this is something you have to do when you come to Shanghai when you land take the Maglev come in VIP definitely easier super luxurious here I mean there's no one here serving you anything because it's only eight minute ride so literally I'm just going to talk for eight minutes here no I'm joking let's check out the view so I have to tell you guys I've never felt this experience so like it starts to turn right and you're like you're levitating right so the Maglev levitates off the rails and you really have to be sitting down because if you're standing up while it's moving like that you can really just like hurt yourself wow we are just like it's going ridiculously fast right now we're at 301 this is maxing out 301 right now it's down to 430 I don't know why but this is the speed we're going eight minutes it's all it takes eight minutes and again the way to get to the Maglev is once you exit the airport once you you know go through immigration get out of your bags and exit everywhere you look there's a Maglev sign Maglev Maglev Maglev just follow that and you get to a ticket counter it's very easy they also speak English you pay you go in you go down and every 15 minutes there's one there's always one waiting there so just get on wait go and unfortunately for us our eight minute journey is over eight minutes that's all it is I really wish it was longer wow and the only other place in the world is going to have the Maglev is going to be Japan Japan is going to have it in 2027 and it's going to connect Tokyo with Osaka and that's going to take like 67 minutes right now it takes two and a half hours so it's going to cut the time in half and yeah I mean I can't believe this has and no one else has done it in the world it's pretty remarkable let's continue so what we're going to do now is instead of catching a bus or metro I'm going to get on uber I'm going to book an uber and go to my apartment at people square people square is one of the main squares here in Shanghai I stayed there last time when I came to my father so you know I know the area a little better so I decided why not book an Airbnb there I did it and the Airbnb is really cheap only 30 US dollars per night 30 US super cheap all right guys so I'm having a big issue right now uh there's no uber so and to get to where I have to go I have to switch twice with all this luggage so I literally have to catch a taxi and he has to take me to an ATM so I'm gonna pay him unless he can take credit card oh my god this is this becoming crazy my bag barely fits in this escalator you take credit card right yeah yeah okay I know a little bit of mandarin I don't know too much but I don't know where you're taking me dude this is crazy I'm going through like a like a scooter haven right here yeah yeah thank you please hello okay everything good thank you so I got in a taxi and I'm flying uh to where I have to go I actually have a bit of an issue if guys haven't noticed the the lens that I'm using is not the biggest lens that I have because it broke yesterday it fell and it cracked so I'm actually going to a camera like mall I'm meeting a friend a fan from Sweden who lives here I'm meeting her there at the mall and it's a camera mall and they have the lens I need I like and I brought the camera too so I literally bought this this lens and the camera yesterday to come on this trip so I can film it and luckily I can return this lens I probably have to pay like a restocking fee or something but it's fine I mean I'm I didn't want to like lose the trip right okay my friend so 280 so 280 I don't know what that is it's like 30 bucks or something it's fine gotta do what I gotta do not they close in like an hour and a half so I gotta get there we've been here in the taxi for about 30 minutes so far just the traffic has been so bad right now we're actually going under a tunnel to get to the other side of Shanghai main center right now we were like on the budong side and now we're getting to the center budong side is like more the financial district that's where like shanghai tower is shanghai financial center and uh yeah we're going through a pretty big tunnel straight under the canal here or the whatever this is like a river yeah it's a river sorry guys I am dead tired it's been a super long day I just need to get my other lens as you can see this is not this is not wide enough for me after about an hour drive we've made it here to the camera store luckily I know because my friends here that they have it so I'm gonna we're gonna walk in I'm gonna buy it we're gonna walk back out get another taxi and go to my airbnb and here we go got the new lens and here's my friend Nia right Nia yeah Nia from Stockholm or yeah awesome so she speaks mandarin yeah amazing yeah you can't get around China without mandarin so this is basically a camera mall there's five floors and wow it's ridiculous you basically find everything every major brands here and what a difference this wide lens makes huh we're catching another taxi because there's no other way to get around right now I mean it's too many connections it weighs it weighs okay let's get in Shanghai so Nia tell me about the street food what's happening you were telling me it's gone it's completely gone I don't know why they changed but like they have some new rule that you're not allowed to sell food on the street maybe yeah because of the food like hygiene that's the biggest issue with street food is that it's never completely sanitary you know they're cooking on the street they're touching with their hands touching the money with their hands I mean it's like that there's still a hole in the walls so you can eat like street food breakfast and stuff like in those type of places that are not like on the street but it's still street food like what they used to serve for street food people square it's like a famous square right yeah maybe there would be something I saw some places like some hole in the walls for breakfast around that area so okay you can definitely have okay so we're here in people square and it's a it's a little confusing Airbnb in Asia is always really confusing because the addresses are in the language and we're trying to find this place and it's like back here somewhere hidden we're like going through some parking lot but hopefully it's here somewhere like I said you have to go to the back of a building there's a black box you have to put in the code you have to go in you have to get the code the keys let's see let's see what happens here okay keys thank god up there somewhere so I'm on the top level and this is like a super authentic Airbnb this is nuts four floors I think okay and yeah so here we made it to my studio apartment here by people square it's like a tiny tiny apartment on the rooftop I mean just to get in here was crazy I mean tiny stairway super impossible to get up here with the luggage but here I am and this is it I mean got a little section here to chill lay down here's my bed and then up here and which is basically outside is where the bathroom is here at the bathroom toilet another area to chill we have some like hair dryers we have some extra seats in case it gets too cold the shower's in here faucets here that's it yeah guys I mean that was an adventure today we took the maglev the fastest operational train in the world for the first one and the only one in the world maglev shanghai maglev train oh what an incredible experience only eight minutes but you have to do when you come to shanghai ticket to the center and then from there you have to either catch a metro taxi and unfortunately can't use uber and then we went and we bought our lens I need this lens feel so much better with this before it was like this and now it's like boom right here and and then yeah we got here to people square to my apartment uh I booked this place on airbnb only 30 bucks a night super cheap I mean obviously very authentic this for me is perfect because this is what I need just a place to like leave my stuff sleep and that's it well guys if you love this video please give me a thumbs up leave me a comment below and subscribe to my channel for more awesome travel content I'll see you in the next travel food adventure in shanghai china shanghai china excited