Evolution Japan Tour

Shonan monorail is a 6.6 km, connecting Ofuna station and Shonan Enoshima station, and there are 6 other stations between them. The...

Many cities abolished trams in 60s and 70s, remaining less than 20 cities to operate trams in Japan. Cities with 1 million or more...

The big difference between European and Japanese trains are that Japanese trains have reserved cars and non-reserved cars. Passengers...

Freight trains are still a major method of transporting goods and commodities around Japan. The biggest freight train operator is JR...

Japan was the one of the last countries to introduce non-smoking flights and smoking is still possible on certain trains, especially on...

May be a lot of foreigners think that there are only Shinkansen bullet trains are running in Japan, connecting the cities. However,...

There are two major airports in Greater Tokyo metropolitan area. Narita and Haneda airports. Narita airport is connected by JR and...

Unfortunately most of the trains in Japan do not have luggage spaces near the doors. Therefore you have to carry your suitcase to the...

JR group has 7 companies; JR Hokkaido, JR East, JR Central, JR West, JR Shikoku, JR Kyushu and JR Freight. Except Shikoku and Freight,...

There are 9 Shinkansen lines in Japan. Most popular one for foreign tourists is the oldest Tokaido Shinkansen, which commenced in 1964. ...

Ticket offices of JR groups are called as MIDORI NO MADOGUCHI in Japanese. Midori means green and madoguchi means window. Actually almost...

This photo was taken in July 2016. Hayabusa of Tohoku Shinkansen bound for Shin-Hakodate Hokuto station in Hokkaido. The train was...

Many authorized agents for Japan Rail Pass have their Ads on SNS or search engines. These Ads are mostly mentioned as ENJOY THE UNLIMITED...

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...

Japan Railways, JR does not classify their trains as 1st class and 2nd class but Green car and ordinary car. Therefore you want to...

Although the official name was Hokuriku shinkansen, it was called Nagano shinkansen when it opened till Nagano station in 1997 to host...

Limited express Shiokaze(Shiokaze means Tide Wind in Japanese) is connecting Okayama station in Honshu and Matsuyama station(some of the...

One of the worst railway tragedies in Japan occurred in 1986 at Amarube bridge in Hyogo prefecture. Chartered train of JNR(Japan National...

Dozen of night trains used to be running in Japan. The longest one was Hayabusa, which ran between Tokyo and Nishi-Kagoshima(current...

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...