Japanese Life·Oct 19Japan’s Railway Map Is Growing. For the People Who Actually Live There, It’s Shrinking.If you only look at the headline number, Japan’s rail network looks healthy: over the past three decades, the country closed 1,366…
Julia C·Apr 11FukuyamaThis writeup is from a series of writeups I did about our March 2026 trip to Japan. If you haven’t read the preceding posts, links are…
Todd Fong·Mar 17JR East’s GranClass is Like Flying First Class on RailsMy first experience with Japan’s Shinkansen bullet train service was in 1996 when my then fiancé and I boarded a Kyoto-bound train at Tokyo…
Wanly @ Discover Hiroshima & Beyond·Jan 2The Four-Hour Threshold: A Local’s Guide to Navigating Western Japan“How do I get to Hiroshima?”
InAll Things Japanesebyanupama rajagopal·Oct 21, 2025All About Railways and Trains in JapanJapan has the world’s most efficient railway system, where thousands use the metro every day to commute. In Japan, trains can always be…
