Japan Holiday On October 1 2018?

The following is a compilation of Japanese national holidays, national observances, patriotic commemorations and important secular events that apply during Monday, 2018-10-01:

• Bullet Train Anniversary:

  ^[nat] Japan's bullet train, better known as Shinkansen in Japanese (しんかんせん), was inagurated in Tokyo on October 1st 1964. Today, Tokyo celebrates the {arabic}th aniversary of this fenomenal piece of technology that has make the lives of people around the country more productive.

Notes:

^[nat] This is a national, government-recognized holiday.