There's a romance to travelling by train. The rhythm of the rails, the sway of the cars, the speed of the scenery.
I can't help but think of movies like "The Spy Who Loved Me," "Trading Places," or of course the legendary classic "Under Siege 2."
My five-week adventure through Japan was coming to an end and I needed to get from Nagasaki in the south to Tokyo in the center-east. Flights turned out to be surprisingly expensive but the train cost about half as much, so I had my solution.
So it was a little over two hours from Nagasaki to Hakata station in Fukuoka on a regional train, then a transfer to the mighty Shinkansen bullet train for a high-speed burn across the islands of Kyushu and Honshu. Finally I descended into to the labyrinthian subway systems of Tokyo.
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