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…
Jonathan Marker, PMP·Aug 18, 2025How My Model Train Obsession Almost Caused an International CrisisA satire about model trains, HOA battles, and the very hypothetical logistics of international bullet train theft.A response icon1A response icon1
Destiny Aitsuji·May 28, 2025Japan Journal Day 6: Stranded in Myoko-KogenAN: This is a re-post from my original website that had shut down due to hosting hikes. My 3 week Japan-Busan journey will be reposted to…
Yaseen Hijazi·May 1, 2025These gourmet ekiben will make your bullet train trip luxurious!I’ve written about ekiben or “train station lunch packs” before, but had to do a piece on these luxurious gourmet ekiben from Kyoto…
Everywhere Anywhere·Apr 18, 2025The Bullet Train Mindset: Why We’re All Chasing Speed (And What It’s Costing Us)Shinkansen Bullet Train in 2025
Narent·Jan 30, 2025A Journey on the Shinkansen: An introduction to Slow LivingSitting in the Shinkansen seat, right next to the window, I gazed out at the snow dusted mountains stretching across the horizon. The cold…
