Watch: what it’s like to take a sleeper train in Japan

I loved taking the night train in China.
Certainly not anywhere as luxurious as this Japanese one.

No problem sleeping, the motion probably helped quite a lot.
Plenty of room.

Was super nice to watch leaving the city you are in, fall asleep, and then wake up near your next city without all the rigamarole through the airport.

You get to see some countryside up close. Even though big cities often had airports very far away, most of the highways were very desolate areas. But the train goes through normal areas, and you can see things like family history steles, farms, funeral wreaths, etc. that the airport highways don’t have.

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