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New Japanese train etiquette point arises from high temperatures and high handy fan sales

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 17, 2025
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Personal electric fans are an imperfect solution to packed-train heat.

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• Japan
• (COK • etiquette • fans • gadgets • handy fans • society • subways • tourism • trains • travel)

Japan Railway-affiliated Tokyo shopping centers issue warning over point card scam

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 5, 2025

Atre Cards are still good, but their QR codes might take you someplace bad.

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• Japan
• (Atre • crime • East Japan Railway Company • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR East • point cards • QR codes • scam artists • scammers • scams • trains • travel)

This Japanese train station has its very own hot spring bathhouse, right on the platform【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  Jul 3, 2025

We hop on the train to Mizunuma, then hop into the bath.

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• (baths • COK • cool • Gunma • hot springs • onsen • SNJO • stations • tourism • trains • travel)

Super rare Japanese train turns night views into moving hearts around Tokyo

• Oona McGee
  Jun 28, 2025

Proof that Japanese trains truly are magical. 

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• (Japan travel • Japanese trains • marketing • Rhoto • Tokyo • trains • travel)

Pokémon photo spots popping up in center of Japan’s third-biggest city for Japan Railway event

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 23, 2025

Osaka Station area gets the Lumiose City treatment and challenges Pokémon fans to complete Mega Evolution rally walk puzzle for prizes.

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• Japan
• (anime • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR West • manga • Osaka • Osaka Station • Pokemon • Pokémon Legends Z-A • stamp rallies • stations • tourism • trains • travel • video games • walking rallies • WEST JAPAN RAILWAY COMPANY)

New unlimited-ride JR Japan rail pass is perfect for a laid-back trip in east and northeast Japan

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 21, 2025

Taking your time in Kanto, Tohoku, and Chubu? This might be just the pass for you.

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• Japan
• (East Japan Railway Company • Japan Railway Company • Japan travel • JR • JR East • rail passes • tourism • train passes • trains • travel)

JR’s new overnight sleeper train will connect Tokyo and northern Japan, is private cabin-only

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 12, 2025

A way to ride the rails from Tokyo to Tohoku while you snooze.

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• Japan
• (East Japan Railway Company • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR East • overnight trains • sleeper trains • Tohoku • Tokyo • tourism • trains • travel)

Shinkansen coffee and ice cream vending machines make train travel in Japan magical

• Oona McGee
  Jun 11, 2025

Bullet train blends you won’t get anywhere else.

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• (bullet train • coffee • coffee vending machine • COK • food vending machines • ice cream • Japanese trains • Japanese vending machines • shinkansen • SNJO • Sujata • tourism • train • trains • travel • vending machine)

Musical ekiben adds a tune to your train station bento meal

• Oona McGee
  Jun 6, 2025

Japan’s only musical ekiben lets you sing for your supper.

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• Japan
• (beef • bento • bullet trains • dining • Ekiben • food • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese trains • local specialties • shinkansen • SNJO • trains • travel • Wagyu)

What to do if you forget your camera or other belongings on the Shinkansen

• Casey Baseel
  Jun 2, 2025

We get an unexpected lesson in bullet train property retrieval procedures.

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• (bullet trains • Central Japan Railway Company • COK • customer service • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR Central • shinkansen • SNJO • tourism • trains • travel)

Old soba restaurant on Japanese train station platform serves noodles with a side of nostalgia

• Oona McGee
  May 29, 2025

If you’ve never tried ekisoba, now’s the time to get on board with the trend.

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• Japan
• (food • Japanese train stations • Noodles • restaurants • SNJO • soba • stand-and-eat • stations • tachigui soba • train station • train stations • trains • travel)

Japan’s bullet train-upholstery chairs bring Shinkansen style to your living room【Photos】

• Casey Baseel
  May 21, 2025

JR East Shinkansen-style seats are great even if they’re not going anywhere.

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• Japan
• (bullet trains • chairs • COK • East Japan Railway Company • furniture • Hokuriku Shinkansen • interior • JR East • shinkansen • trains)

Ramen vending machine brings a new noodle stand experience to Tokyo station

• Oona McGee
  May 18, 2025

A unique way to eat ramen in Japan.

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• (bullet trains • dining • food • food vending machines • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese trains • Japanese vending machines • local specialties • ramen • shinkansen • trains • travel • vending machine • vending machines)

Ekiben vending machine adds new excitement to bullet train travel in Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 10, 2025

A new way to enjoy ekiben on the Shinkansen.

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• (bento • bullet trains • crab • dining • Ekiben • food • Fukui • gourmet • Japanese food • Japanese trains • local specialties • red snow crab • shinkansen • trains • travel)

A close encounter with a dangerous criminal on a Shinkansen bullet train in Japan

• Oona McGee
  May 9, 2025

Frightening experience shows that although Japan might be considered safe, you never know when you might have a brush with danger.

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• (bullet train • Central Japan Railway Company • crime • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR Central • news • police • shinkansen • Tokaido Shinkansen • Tokyo • tourism • trains • travel)

Secret stairs at Tokyo Station dungeon come with a serious warning

• Oona McGee
  Apr 30, 2025

This train station dungeon wants you to turn back at this point, but what happens if you go ahead?

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• (dungeon • Japanese train stations • Japanese trains • public transport • SNJO • stairs • station • stations • Tokyo Station • train stations • trains • transport • travel)

Sailor Moon and others teach foreign tourists Japanese etiquette in Manga Manners art series

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 27, 2025

Characters from Akira, Cardcaptor Sakura, Ghost in the Shell, and more explain the basics of Japanese manners at Shinkansen stations.

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• Japan
• (AKIRA • anime • Attack on Titan • Cardcaptor Sakura • Chiikawa • etiquette • Ghost in the Shell • japanese manners • Kodansha • manga • manners • Sailor Moon • shinkansen • stations • Tokyo Revengers • trains • travel)

Most convenient hot spring in Japan? Might be this one that’s attached to a train station platform

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 18, 2025

Onsen getaways don’t get more convenient than this rail station in Gunma.

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• (COK • Gunma • hot springs • Kiryu • onsen • stations • tourism • trains • travel)

Kyoto Station partially evacuated as bomb squad finds sweet but unwanted surprise

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 14, 2025

Suspicious package report follows two cases of handguns being brought in to nearby international airport.

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• Japan
• (COK • crazy • crime • Kyoto • Kyoto Station • stations • tourism • trains • travel • weird)

Tokyo train little luxury showdown – Green Car vs. Kaiji, which is more comfortable?

• Casey Baseel
  Apr 6, 2025

The answer might depend on what kind of drink you reach for after a long day at the office.

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• Japan
• (Chuo Line • COK • East Japan Railway Company • Green Car • Japan Railway Company • JR • JR East • Ome Line • SNJO • tourism • trains • travel)

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