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Tourists Need To Follow This Train Etiquette Rule To Blend In When Visiting Japan

Tourists visiting Japan should consider that the cultural norms may be very different than what they're used to back home, ...
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25 Things That Exist Only in Japan

Explore 25 unique aspects of Japanese culture, from robot hotels and crazy toilets to KitKats and crowded trains. Discover ...
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The Best Train Journeys in Japan for Leaf Peeping This Autumn

Our love for Japan shows no signs of slowing down. More than 2.7 million Americans visited Japan in 2024, a whopping increase of 33% over 2023, according to the Japan National Tourism Organization ...
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Japan moves to combat train congestion, bad manners caused by ‘over-tourism’

TOKYO — It may soon become more expensive to ride one of Japan’s famously crowded trains thanks to measures recently approved by lawmakers to combat the side effects of “over-tourism.” Visitors have ...
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How High-Speed Rail Transformed Japan

The Shinkansen, Japanese for "bullet train," forever changed transportation in Japan and in nearly two dozen countries around the world. Japan's high-speed rail journey began in 1964, just before the ...