{"id":240352,"date":"2025-11-02T23:05:18","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240352\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T23:05:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:05:18","slug":"from-tokyo-to-new-york-in-60-minutes-japan-firm-eyes-657000-rocket-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/240352\/","title":{"rendered":"From Tokyo to New York in 60 minutes: Japan firm eyes $657,000 rocket trip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By <a href=\"https:\/\/e.vnexpress.net\/news\/travel\/javascript:void(0)\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hoai Anh<\/a>\u00a0 &amp;nbspNovember 1, 2025 | 05:00 pm PT\t<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tixung1-1761809142-1761809175-5467-1473-1761809602.jpg\" data-original=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tixung1-1761809142-1761809175-5467-1473-1761809602.jpg\" class=\"vne_lazy_image\" alt=\"From Tokyo to New York in 60 minutes: Japan firm eyes $657,000 rocket trip\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\nTourists wait for Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka, a sumo wrestling themed restaurant to open, in Tokyo, Japan, June 30, 2023. Photo by Reuters\t<\/p>\n<p>A Japanese travel agency said that it plans to launch a point-to-point transport service in the 2030s that would connect Tokyo with U.S. cities such as New York, using space technology to cut travel time to just 60 minutes.\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">Nippon Travel Agency said it aims to roll out the service in partnership with a Japanese reusable-rocket start-up, Kyodo News Agency reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">A round-trip fare would cost about 100 million yen (US$657,000).<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The transport vehicle would be launched from an offshore site and could connect any two points on Earth within 60 minutes, Mainichi newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">&#8220;We hope this business will be a new starting point to connect space travel and tourism,&#8221; Nippon Travel president Keigo Yoshida said at a news conference in Tokyo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The project is expected to proceed in stages: space-food tasting and tours of ground facilities related to space will start in fiscal 2026, and a service offering stays in orbit is planned for the 2040s.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">Currently, it takes nearly 13 hours to fly non-stop from Tokyo to New York.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The project is part of an effort to commercialize space travel, turning intercontinental travel into a fast, premium experience.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">However, the plan is still in its early planning stages and faces many challenges in reusable rocket technology, aerospace safety regulations, and development costs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">The idea of using rockets to transport passengers intercontinentally, or &#8220;point-to-point&#8221;, has been pursued by private space companies for many years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">SpaceX of billionaire Elon Musk announced its vision of using the super rocket Starship for &#8220;Earth-to-Earth&#8221; journeys since 2017.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Normal\">SpaceX&#8217;s ambition is to connect any two major cities in the world within 60 minutes, for example, flying from New York (U.S.) to Shanghai (China) in just 39 minutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"By Hoai Anh\u00a0 &amp;nbspNovember 1, 2025 | 05:00 pm PT Tourists wait for Yokozuna Tonkatsu Dosukoi Tanaka, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240353,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[101381,101380,90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-240352","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-000-rocket-trip-vnexpress-international","9":"tag-from-tokyo-to-new-york-in-60-minutes-japan-firm-eyes-657","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom","14":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240352","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240352"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240352\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240352"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240352"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240352"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}