Haha so I am up late and realize that despite my repeatedly promising more posts, I have failed in doing so!
But I am bored and will write more right now. Your welcome!
So... where to begin? Aha! I have it, the train system!
I LOVE how easy it is to travel around Japan. The main railway is called Japan Railway, usually referred to as JR. But there are privately owned companies too skattered here and there, connecting the boonies and the sticks to the bigger cities. For example, I actually ride Hankyu because JR does not go to where I live! But I am not that far in the boonies, its just that Hankyu is a fairly prominent privately owned line only in Osaka. If you can see in the train map above, My station is Sojiji, the station for school is three stops away at Shojaku, and the station in Osaka is Umeda. We often just refer to station names instead of the actual city name. I live in Takatsuki-shi, but I don't get off at that station so I often say I live by Sojiji.
There is a running joke among us ryugakusei, foreign exchange students, about the lameness of Hankyu. But us Hankyu Riders are full of Hankyu Pride!! Check out Wikipedias info on it if you are more interested! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankyu_Railway
I love Hankyu!! Haha, Hankyu is older and not as clean looking as JR but it is more reliable and the interior of the trains looks like the leftovers of a cheap 70's porno with crushed green velvet seats and faux wood interior walls. The sad thing is the reason Hankyu is more reliable is because on JR about once a month someone commits suicide by jumping in front of one of the trains, and that backs up all the trains for about at hour. This has happened about four times since I've been here. The first time I couldn't believe it, but now we just shake our heads.
However, the running joke is that no one commits suicide on Hankyu because even if they jumped in front of a Rapid Express Train they would only break a leg at most because the trains are so slow! Or, the more funny version is, if someone were to try and jump in front of a Hankyu train, that person might get a few bruises but the train itself would derail and kill all the passengers aboard...
So now you know! JR vs Hankyu is a hot topic of debate here! But I am a Hankyu rider, so stuff that in your pipe and smoke it JR people!!
But I am bored and will write more right now. Your welcome!
So... where to begin? Aha! I have it, the train system!
I LOVE how easy it is to travel around Japan. The main railway is called Japan Railway, usually referred to as JR. But there are privately owned companies too skattered here and there, connecting the boonies and the sticks to the bigger cities. For example, I actually ride Hankyu because JR does not go to where I live! But I am not that far in the boonies, its just that Hankyu is a fairly prominent privately owned line only in Osaka. If you can see in the train map above, My station is Sojiji, the station for school is three stops away at Shojaku, and the station in Osaka is Umeda. We often just refer to station names instead of the actual city name. I live in Takatsuki-shi, but I don't get off at that station so I often say I live by Sojiji.
There is a running joke among us ryugakusei, foreign exchange students, about the lameness of Hankyu. But us Hankyu Riders are full of Hankyu Pride!! Check out Wikipedias info on it if you are more interested! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hankyu_Railway
I love Hankyu!! Haha, Hankyu is older and not as clean looking as JR but it is more reliable and the interior of the trains looks like the leftovers of a cheap 70's porno with crushed green velvet seats and faux wood interior walls. The sad thing is the reason Hankyu is more reliable is because on JR about once a month someone commits suicide by jumping in front of one of the trains, and that backs up all the trains for about at hour. This has happened about four times since I've been here. The first time I couldn't believe it, but now we just shake our heads.
However, the running joke is that no one commits suicide on Hankyu because even if they jumped in front of a Rapid Express Train they would only break a leg at most because the trains are so slow! Or, the more funny version is, if someone were to try and jump in front of a Hankyu train, that person might get a few bruises but the train itself would derail and kill all the passengers aboard...
So now you know! JR vs Hankyu is a hot topic of debate here! But I am a Hankyu rider, so stuff that in your pipe and smoke it JR people!!
