Shonan monorail
Shonan monorail is a 6.6 km, connecting Ofuna station and Shonan Enoshima station, and there are 6 other stations between them. The...
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Teddy
Sep 19, 20181 min read
Tram
Many cities abolished trams in 60s and 70s, remaining less than 20 cities to operate trams in Japan. Cities with 1 million or more...
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Teddy
Aug 24, 20181 min read
Non-reserved car
The big difference between European and Japanese trains are that Japanese trains have reserved cars and non-reserved cars. Passengers...
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Teddy
Jul 3, 20181 min read
Freight train
Freight trains are still a major method of transporting goods and commodities around Japan. The biggest freight train operator is JR...
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Teddy
Jul 1, 20181 min read
Smoking room
Japan was the one of the last countries to introduce non-smoking flights and smoking is still possible on certain trains, especially on...
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Teddy
Jun 23, 20181 min read
Limited express
May be a lot of foreigners think that there are only Shinkansen bullet trains are running in Japan, connecting the cities. However,...
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Teddy
Jun 3, 20181 min read
Tokyo monorail
There are two major airports in Greater Tokyo metropolitan area. Narita and Haneda airports. Narita airport is connected by JR and...
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Teddy
Jun 1, 20181 min read
Overhead bin
Unfortunately most of the trains in Japan do not have luggage spaces near the doors. Therefore you have to carry your suitcase to the...
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Teddy
May 28, 20181 min read
Hokuriku shinkansen
JR group has 7 companies; JR Hokkaido, JR East, JR Central, JR West, JR Shikoku, JR Kyushu and JR Freight. Except Shikoku and Freight,...
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Teddy
May 18, 20182 min read
Joetsu Shinkansen
There are 9 Shinkansen lines in Japan. Most popular one for foreign tourists is the oldest Tokaido Shinkansen, which commenced in 1964. ...
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Teddy
Apr 12, 20182 min read
Midori no madoguchi
Ticket offices of JR groups are called as MIDORI NO MADOGUCHI in Japanese. Midori means green and madoguchi means window. Actually almost...
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Teddy
Apr 4, 20182 min read
Seat reservation
This photo was taken in July 2016. Hayabusa of Tohoku Shinkansen bound for Shin-Hakodate Hokuto station in Hokkaido. The train was...
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Teddy
Feb 16, 20182 min read
Japan Rail Pass
Many authorized agents for Japan Rail Pass have their Ads on SNS or search engines. These Ads are mostly mentioned as ENJOY THE UNLIMITED...
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Teddy
Feb 12, 20181 min read
Steam locomotive
Steam locomotive is called SL in Japan and JR does not run any SL trains for regular timetable. On the other hand, there are several...
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Teddy
Nov 2, 20171 min read
Green car
Japan Railways, JR does not classify their trains as 1st class and 2nd class but Green car and ordinary car. Therefore you want to...
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Teddy
Oct 26, 20171 min read
Hokuriku shinkansen
Although the official name was Hokuriku shinkansen, it was called Nagano shinkansen when it opened till Nagano station in 1997 to host...
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Teddy
Oct 19, 20171 min read
Shiokaze
Limited express Shiokaze(Shiokaze means Tide Wind in Japanese) is connecting Okayama station in Honshu and Matsuyama station(some of the...
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Teddy
Oct 11, 20171 min read
Amarube bridge
One of the worst railway tragedies in Japan occurred in 1986 at Amarube bridge in Hyogo prefecture. Chartered train of JNR(Japan National...
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Teddy
Sep 25, 20172 min read
Sunrise Express
Dozen of night trains used to be running in Japan. The longest one was Hayabusa, which ran between Tokyo and Nishi-Kagoshima(current...
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Teddy
Sep 20, 20171 min read
Timetable
Now a days you can check the timetables online or by the applications but it is much convenient to have a published timetable with you if...
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