Nipponia--Travel Japan By Train Special Feature

[Guest bill937ca]

Nipponia is a quarterly web magazine that introduces modern Japan to people all over the world and is published by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.  Travel Japan By Train is the special feature of the current quarterly issue.

 

http://web-japan.org/nipponia/archives/en/index.html

 

http://web-japan.org/nipponia/nipponia43/en/index.html

 

Lots of articles on Japan's trains and it's railway network.

 

http://web-japan.org/nipponia/archives/en/travel_history/transport.html

 

There is an interactive zoom-able map of 30 different railway lines. Click on the text under the line name and you will be taken further photos and or articles.

 

http://web-japan.org/nipponia/nipponia43/en/feature/feature09.html

 

Nipponia also has numerous informative articles on all aspects of Japanese life and culture.  Very interesting reading.  ;D

[kashirigi]

That's a great find! Now I will have even more to see the next time I go to Japan.

 

Great pictures, too.