[floatr][/floatr]The Nippon Airship Corporation and JTB have announced they will start Japan's first zeppelin sightseeing tour over Tokyo next month for a limited run of until early January (including New Year's Day). There will be a total of 105 flights and each tour will last ninety minutes. A maximum of 8 passengers are allowed onboard so the price per person is a hefty 126,000 yen for a mid-week day flight. Weekend flights and night flights are dearer while for the Christmas schedule you'll need to pay 168,500 yen.

Mulboyne wrote: . . . The Nippon Airship Corporation and JTB have announced they will start Japan's first zeppelin sightseeing tour over Tokyo next month for a limited run . . .

First? What about the Graf Zeppelin in 1929?



Or maybe that was classified as a circumnavigation rather than a sightseeing tour.

Here's some photos of the Graf Zeppelin. At 236.6 metres long it was more than 3 times longer that NAC's sightseeing guppie and must've been like watching a supertanker floating in the sky.

Still, if the tickets were cheaper, I'd seriously consider a ride in the guppie.

See also:

• Japan buys first new Zeppelin]Marineboy's Marine Bus; and
• Hindenburg disaster coming to a prefecture near you!