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My wife has never clicked on one of your videos for me, but you showed her Pikachu train and now we're discussing a Japan vacation.

The missed opportunity of not calling that train "Pika-choochoo"

NJB just casually went through like 5 videos worth of content for the average travel vlogger, what a chad move

hearing about shinkansen travelling faster than planes at 6 minute intervals is absolutely bonkers as somebody who has to wait 30 minutes for a train going 50km/h to get to work

Thank you to coming to Japan. I live in Japan and  I think that the craziest train is commuter trains in Tokyo morning.

"Getting off on the wrong station that also happens to be underserviced" is genuinely a recurring (benign) nightmare for me. Now I can have that nightmare with the added terror of not knowing the native language ❤

As someone in Ireland, this is making me so jealous. I wish we had focused on trains rather than cars.

god, the stark contrast in that shot of soul-crushing traffic at the end really did crush my soul after seeing all the creative & innovative trains

"There was a Hello Kitty themed smoking room but it was closed in March 2024"
I never thought I would hear all those words in that exact order. 😂

If only our countries would love their train as much as Japan.
People stuck in traffic, including kids, don't know what they're missing.

I went to Japan but I was very little and my mom told me that I used to always say 電車 instead of train until I turned 5. I had a train obsession as a toddler.

10:40 fun fact: all hiking trails in Switzerland are planned to have all trail heads located at bus and train stations :)

Really need some miffy trains here in the Netherlands

"And even with all those trains running on the network, their average annual delay, including those caused by earthquakes and typhoons, is less than 1 minute."
sad German noises

I remember the Yamagata Shinkansen having a literal HOT FOOT SPA in one of their trains.

People in Japan are so lucky to have such advanced transportation. Here where I live we still use trains from 80's. You can imagine how slow trains are around here

Avid star fan here! I actually went on the space 1375 train last winter with my family, the person who was talking to us actually spoke some English and gave us key astronomy terms. (Although my family includes a fluent Japanese speaking person and the rest can understand at a high level, so mileage will vary) When we got off the station it was a little cloudy, but the guide took us up into the park on the hill you can see the video, he went off for about 10 minutes to turn off the main lights in the park. It was very dark, the only lights you could see were the ones at the station, but if you turned the opposite direction you couldn't see them.
Personally, winter constellations are much more interesting. Even though it was little cloudy we were able to see a little of the Milky Way strip in the sky. Definitely not the darkest place to see stars but definitely a cool experience!
I'm not sure why your experience was so different, maybe because it was so cloudy they didn't see the point?
My only complaints were how cold it was outside (I was not ready for that and was shivering the whole time) and that on the way back they didn't dim the lights in the train and I was so tired at that point...

The Netherlands definitely needs a Nijntje/Miffy train like the Hello Kitty one 😂

Japan is the best example of a country that embraces cars yet doesn't require you to own one.
The public transport there is world class, yet it has the best car culture in the world (look up Albo and Dustin Williams for content relating to the JDM car scene). Tokyo has insane multi level highways within the city (like the Wangan loop) but at that doesn't stop it from having great public transport. And there are these tiny efficient Kei cars that are so small and they're not sold in other countries, they also used to give you tax benefits if you own one