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Japan’s top train station bento boxed lunches for 2016, as picked by travelers

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 17, 2016
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If you’re riding the rails in Japan, here’s how you should be stuffing your face.

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• Japan
• (bento • boxed lunches • Ekiben • food • trains • travel)

Japanese schoolgirls engage in “Air Chair Battle” in railway commercial promoting manners【Vid】

• Corey Gold
  Dec 13, 2016

Just when you thought Japanese commercials couldn’t get any weirder.

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• Japan
• (commercial • manners • schoolgirl • society • trains • video)

Japanese subway puts up posters of middle-aged men saying how Dragon Ball changed their lives

• Scott Wilson
  Dec 11, 2016

Goku taught me everything I know… including how to fire a kamehameha wave.

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• Japan
• (advertisements • awesome • Dragon Ball • JR East • trains)

Platform 13½ set to open at Ueno Station in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Dec 9, 2016

Like Hogwart’s Express, a new Japanese train is now getting its very own mysterious in-between platform.

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• Japan
• (cool • Harry Potter • stations • Tokyo • train stations • trains • Ueno • wow)

Construction start date announced for rebuilding of Tokyo’s iconic Harajuku Station

• Casey Baseel
  Dec 6, 2016

If you want to see the Tokyo landmark in its current form, go now.

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• Japan
• (Harajuku • Harajuku Station • Japan Railways • JR • stations • Tokyo • trains • Yamanote line)

Yamanote Line train temporarily suspended after carriage fills with smoke in Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Dec 5, 2016

According to reports, a mobile phone battery pack fire was the cause of the incident.

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• (accident • fire • Japan Rail • JR East • phones • Shinagawa • trains • Yamanote)

Japanese train conductor surprises everyone on board with his English skills

• Oona McGee
  Dec 1, 2016

Passengers on board this Tokyo train said they felt like they were in an aircraft when they heard the live English announcement.

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• Japan
• (English • tourism • trains • travel)

Japan Railways opening reservations for ridiculously luxurious Kyoto-west Japan sleeper train

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 30, 2016

Train include bathtubs, skylights, and separate restaurant and bar.

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• Japan
• (Japan Railways • JR • JR West • Kyoto • luxury trains • Osaka • Shimonoseki • trains • travel)

Japanese adult video game voice actress does announcements at JR Niigata Station 【Videos】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 26, 2016

Let the voice from Pregnancy Academy and Crime Breast Bounce guide you to the bullet train.

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• (anime • bullet train • Japan Railways • JR • Niigata • otaku • shinkansen • trains • video games • voice actors • voice actresses)

All aboard the Kobe Disco Train! Runs from Tanigami to Okaba Station with a stop at Funkytown

• Master Blaster
  Nov 25, 2016

If the name is any indication, the Kobe Disco Train promises to be a more uptempo and commercially viable version of a soul train.

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• Japan
• (disco • Kobe • Kobe Disco Train • music • party • trains)

November snow falls in Tokyo for first time in 54 years, causes chaos for peak hour commuters

• Oona McGee
  Nov 25, 2016

Peak-hour delays caused such overcrowding that some commuters were unable to enter stations in the nation’s capital.

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• Japan
• (crazy • rush hour • snow • stations • Tokyo • trains • transportation • Yamanote)

Japan’s vending machines somehow become even more awesome with amazing new canned soup flavor

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 23, 2016

Demi-glace soup is the fanciest-sounding, best-tasting machine-sold canned treat we’ve had in a long time.

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• Japan
• (food • Japan Railways • soup • stations • taste test • trains • vending machines)

All aboard the Sega Train! Tokyo rail operator decorates carriages for Sonic’s 25th anniversary

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 8, 2016

One other Sega franchise will join Sonic on the special train, which will be in service in Tokyo for one month.

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• Japan
• (Haneda Airport • Puyo Puyo • Sega • Sonic the Hedgehog • trains • video games)

Japanese train station staff offers heart-warming encouragement to college entrance examinees

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 8, 2016

Reminds them that they’re not alone, and that even if things look bleak now, they might be just about to take a turn for the better.

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• Japan
• (colleges • educations • entrance exams • moving • touching • trains)

Star Wars and Darth Vader theme melodies now being played at Tokyo train stations 【Video】

• Oona McGee
  Nov 7, 2016

Commuters can now feel like they’re setting off on a journey of epic proportions with these dramatic new train jingles blaring in their ears.

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• Japan
• (Disney • Marvel • Star Wars • Tokyu • train jingles • train station melody • train stations • trains)

Japan’s public transportation system is so awesome even birds apparently want to use it 【Video】

• Casey Baseel
  Nov 1, 2016

”Why fly when you can ride?” this crow in Sapporo seems to be asking.

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• Japan
• (animals • birds • crows • funny • Hokkaido • Sapporo • Subway • trains • video)

Japanese train company slammed for ad branding women “undignified” for applying makeup on board

• Oona McGee
  Oct 29, 2016

The new ad campaign addresses a variety of behaviours that should be avoided while travelling on trains, but so far, this is the only act that they’re calling indecent.

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• Japan
• (controversy • feminism • manners • sexism • trains • video • women)

Final Fantasy characters become giant plushies, take over Tokyo’s Shibuya Station 【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 17, 2016

Some of the video game franchise’s greatest heroes appear in promotion for its latest title.

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• Japan
• (cool • Final Fantasy • Final Fantasy VII • Final Fantasy X • Shibuya • Square Enix • trains • video games)

Japanese conductor apologizes for “inconvenience of many foreign passengers being on the train”

• Casey Baseel
  Oct 13, 2016

Famed Japanese politeness wraps so far back around that it ends up being pretty rude on Osaka train.

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• Japan
• (controversy • foreigners in Japan • Osaka • trains • travel)

China’s first suspended railway looks like a panda soaring through the skies

• Michelle Hughes
  Oct 11, 2016

Maybe they’ll call it the Panda Express!

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• China
• (Kawaii • panda • railways • trains)

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