Taking the Big Break

Bullet Train

I have been on trains that go at least 120 miles per hour at top speed.  That’s really fast for regular transportation.   I loved zooming on those fast trains. In Japan there is many ways to zip around.

Car of the Future

The Mazda factory was awesome.  I took so many photos.   We even got to see the construction of the cars.  We saw completed old cars and the millionth car they made.   They are starting to make cars with water as the exhaust.  How energy efficient is that?  There are even a few gas stations in Norway that service water power as well as gasoline.  By 2050, more countries will do the same thing.

Trains are the main source of transportation in Japan so they have very fast trains and slow trains as well.  Some stopped at every station and some zoomed through almost all of them.  Regular trains went at about 40 miles per hour but some were way faster.   Trains are a reliable source of travel and are almost always on time. They are clean and quiet, too.

Local train

Streetcars and buses are useful, but not as reliable and on time.  The useful thing about streetcars is they always beat the traffic.  Buses are slower but cheap and energy-saving.   Even though most people take trains, there are still a lot of cars on the road and a good amount of traffic so that is why street cars are useful.

Local bus

Cars are easy and go exactly where you want to go, but are slow and wasteful.   Bikes are useful but the hard part is finding a place to park them.  The ice thing is you don’t always have to lock it.  People are very trustworthy in Japan.  There are very few parking lots though.   Every square foot of ground is twice as expensive here.

Japan has so many more ways of transportation.  I have already ridden on them all.  You can move around so much easier and smoother in Japan.  I love cruising around Japan.