One of the great features of many Japanese trains is that the seats always face the driving direction. Personally I’m fine sitting in the opposite direction because I’m usually sleeping anyway. Some trains turn the seats automatically after they’ve reached their final stop, in others it’s done manually. I recorded this video of the NEX, JR East’s airport train.
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The Shinkansen bullet-train is one of the trademarks of Japan, yet, there’s no Shinkansen on Hokkaido. Routes have been proposed
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Ice sculptures in Summer and outside? In Japan, this doesn’t seem too unusual. I’ve seen an ice sculpture exhibition near
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Just leaving the train station and looking around, many places seem to look the same. But Tokyo is full of
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Hamelin was for a long time on my list for potential day trips from Hamburg, so today I could scratch
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Impressions of Germany, covered in snow during a train trip to Hameln (Hamelin)
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The people from the hostel recommended this tour where you explore the underground of Seattle. These passages were once the
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Time for another trip to Kiel! Okay, this is not exactly one of my favorite cities nor is it one
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Again? That’s what I thought when the majority of my class mates decided on Kawagoe. I’ve been there already two
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One of the interesting new meet-up groups is the water walk meet-up. It follows the places presented in the book
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As I wrote earlier, I did choose Saarbrucken only for its close proximity to the border. There are special roundtrip
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