Japan is getting pumped up for the 2016 Summer Olympic and Paralympic Games, and whenever there’s a huge event, you can bet that the entire…

Train nerds who also love a little bit of kawaii in their lives will soon be jumping out of their seats for the arrival of…

Unlike the United States, Japanese citizens are allow to drink freely in public. And recently, the Osaka train station is offering beer and food inside…

Oikawa Tetsudo makes various kinds of initiatives to attract more passengers to the line. This time, they Oikawa Tetsudo is going to run a classic…

There are over 600 train platform fences in Japan currently. They prevent intoxicated people and young children from falling off onto the rails; they also…

Just like in many other countries, Japanese law permits guide dogs to enter public transport as well as shops. These dogs are trained to prioritize…

Hiroshima has a lot of rivers, it was hard to construct subways, and the streetcar system became well-developed. At 8:15am on August 6, 1945, a…

This is perhaps the station in Japan that is nearest to the station. And it’s not located in a distant land. It’s in Yokohama. 2011akiさん(@2011aki)が投稿した写真…

Recently a name of a station on Choshi Dentetsu has changed. The name is Kaminoke Kurohae – which means “black hair grows”. People on Twitter…

West Japan Railway Company had a problem – their trains were keep getting delayed because of turtles. A stuck turtle This issue occurs from May…

Thomas, the promising steam train makes sure your arriving schedule never gets delayed. Well, frankly not, some small chaos can be always guaranteed to happen…

We recently wrote about how animals in Japan are polite (well, namely guinea pigs), but we may have spoken too soon. There’s talk now of…

On August 1, 2015, a passenger fell off the station platform on Shinagawa Station (Keikyu). As a result, the person who fell off was stuck…