Sightseeing the true Japanese way! Maps are for the weak! So my first encounter with the infamous Japanese Bullet train was peachy keen.. 3 hours from Tokyo to Kyoto... my kind of speed.. Unfortunately it was a three hour wait for non smoking so I did the unmentionable and sentenced my lungs to 3 hours in a smoking car, leaving some Texan fellas I met in my dust!! Little thing to love about the trains here, every so often a lady comes by this a trolly full of everything ranging from beer, green tea, coffee to pocky sticks, cookies and wasabi peas! Loved it! People had also told me about how tidy everyone is here (dead true) and how you will see people eating dinner and such on the train (also true), you can actually buy
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