East Japan Railway Co.'s new luxury sleeper train debuted Monday, starting a four-day trip covering Hokkaido and parts of northeastern Japan in offering passengers a cruise experience with a modern Japanese taste.The champagne-gold-colored "Train Suite Shiki-shima" carrying 33 passengers departed Ueno Station in Tokyo in the morning as JR East President Tetsuro Tomita and its designer Ken Kiyoyuki Okuyama joined a ceremony celebrating its departure."We hope to create a new railway history and breathe life into rural areas," said Tomita.The fees for the latest trip range from 740,000 yen ($6…READ FULL ARTICLE