First Experience on Japanese Trains in Tokyo!

Ouch..... This accustical overload would drive me crazy....also all the concrete as far as you are able to look, all these people. I'm tired already. 😅
I could not live there. Gives me a headache and wears me out totally. It must be torture for Japanese autistic people, to deal with this on a daily level. - Glad that you enjoy yourself. 🙂

Take off the children's shoes.

仲良しファミリー😃🍒😃

Nice family video

Yes the quietness!! Loved it, when we visited 10 urs ago! I tell everyone that Tokyo is the best, cuz its quiet! April is the flower show at the big garden. Ask someone i don't recall the place🤷‍♀️💐💐🌹🌷

You should do a video comparing to the health care cost in japan and america you’ll be shocked on how cheap it is in japan

Tokyo Sky Tree.

Also research about the etiquette of filming on trains.

Also Japanese etiquette is that you don;t talk on the trains and buses.

Beautiful Family! I have to say Wow because Mom is a “Sandra Bullock”lookalike! Younger and prettier! Keep having Fun!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤

The soundtrack makes me feel like you guys are on a caper of some sort. :)

Love your guys' videos so much! You're taking us with you to so many places in this beautiful world! Thanks so much for sharing your experiences. Love watching you exploring this wonderful world and to seeing your lovely daughters experiencing all of this. Take care and enjoy. Love to you guys. ❤

Compared to Europe, Tokyo looks... gray and " boxy" 🏢 😉

Wow how confusing. Glad you guys firgured that out about all the different trains 😮😮

Just got back from 10 days in Japan with my hubby and my 2 year old to visit his family. Important lesson learned: DO NOT take your little ones on the Tokyo metro during the hours between 5-7pm. We made that mistake coming back from harajuku and were absolutely smooshed. I had to hold my sleeping toddler and had a Japanese salaryman have to put her blanket back on her when it fell off bc my hands were literally full. 😂 Do yourselves a favor and just take a taxi during those hours or plan to be home already.

I frequently watch a live stream showing the train track leading to the main station in Tokyo. The have 6 normal tracks and 2 high speed tracks there. And there is a train going by about every 10 seconds! If they would try that here in Germany, it would take about 5 minutes until everything comes to grinding halt. Because some train is late, then other have to wait, and because of that more have to wait and so on. The German Deutsche Bahn cals a train delayed if its more than 10 minutes late or so. If a Japanese train is 5 minutes late, the train driver breaks down in tears and wants to commit suicide. Not to mention cleanliness in the trains and such things...

What an adventure!! Y'all are the sweetest couple and those girls are just too precious 💕. Y'all take everything in stride and looks like you've done exactly that with the train system. Thanks for sharing 😊

Thank goodness for those Apps. Otherwise i would be absolutely lost 🫣. I been told that Japans Disney is mind blowing seen a few other yt families visit and they were just grinning from Ear to Ear at their adventures on this park . Looking Forward to seeing your reactions 😜💕.
Have a Good week 🥰

Welcome to my busy neighbourhood of Shinjuku/Shibuya! 🙂 It's great using apps like Google Maps and always making connections on time (versus the increasingly common delays of DB in Germany), and if you know your exit number there's generally lots of signs pointing the right way. Looking forward to seeing your experiences with the Shinkansen or the nice limited express trains to places like Hakone/Atami/Shimoda (though reminder for the Shinkansen toward Osaka/Kyoto that if you take large luggage you need to reserve a free spot for the luggage ahead of time).

We're almost at plum blossom season, starting mid-February

Marissa, if you ever travel the rail lines with just yourself and your daughters, use those pink train cars (which are for women and girls only) whenever possible. Yes, I know that one may not think it fair that men and boys over 12 aren't allowed on those (alas not all men riding on trains are gentlemen like Tanner) . However, they're not as crowded as the regular train cars and you & your little one could use less crowding whenever possible.
Great vid showing the Tokyo-Yokohama area train system and you and Tanner gave some good tips on how to navigate the zillions of different lines and the labyrinths that stations often have (and I look forward to watching your impressions of Tokyo Disney to say nothing of exploring Tokyo San and Yokohama [e.g.check out the Chinatown there])! Thanks!

You should visit Okinawa. It's called the Hawaii of Japan - very beautiful. Although there is a big US military presence. Okinawa was returned to Japan only in 1972 after WW2.🤓

Some years ago I collected japanese trains. 🚃 in N-scale (1:160) from Kato and Tomix. Commuter trains, Nighttrains and of course many different Shinkansen. So I know them well and how they look...🤓

Man, Deutsche Bahn catching strays our here. :D

I LOVE riding the Japanese trains (the du-dun du-dun sounds, the quietness, even the train station music because it feels so nostalgic to me every time etc.). Especially because I'm German at least by my passport and moved here over 30 years ago. My mum usually falls asleep, even when she is standing (she is Japanese and grew up in Tokyo).

I heard that almost no one in Japan speaks English. That's why it's very difficult. You can only get apartments or houses if you have a Japanese person to vouch for you

Cannot wait for them to explore all japan.

At first I thought it was all in one day and I was thinking, how did you end up going the right way to Maihama and then end up further away 😂 when you got to Shibuya I realised😂.
I find the Navitime by Japan Travel app much better for trains.

The forest is most likely the "Shinjuku Gyoen" park. It's a paid park with a Starbucks. It is a very nice park.
The Shibuya station is very not easy to understand right now. I mean they bulldoze a build that is the station build without shutting down the station ... I mean, it's crazy.

Tokyo has still a lot of rather classic/old trains running (fat seats/pillows, (wooden ring) holding (like the old Indian trains)) - gives me some classic vibes. Those old fat seats are not very economic but very comfy! Tokyo/Japan as such has a lot of 70-80ties like profane architecture but thanks to its size and many diverse lively urban/metropolis hotspots (and here and there other more intersting architecture beween modern and old) it is a really fascinating city. yep, the trains in Japan are (thanks to own tracks) usually very punctual, but in difference to Germany the regions are less connected. very good in the metropole area (except a few bad designed lines), not as good the more regional you get (and those are also getting more into deficits due to the combination of a shrinking demographics and ore urbanization especially of the youth (like global) ...

Oh my goodness, my anxiety went through the roof just seeing all those foreign signs, crowds, trains, and tunnels😂 Very interesting to see. Even though it doesn't look like it, it's probably all very well organised and smooth running. For me though, a 62 Yr old Oma living alone, much too overwhelming and way out of my comfort zone🙈😅
Is Willa in Kindergarten there or not yet? I'm curious to see how she picks up the language❤

You may have already noticed but Japanese children take their shoes off if they are climbing on the seats in the train. Also make sure your backpack is in front of you if you are on a packed train because you don't want to hit someone if you turn around.

To be exposed to such music while waiting for the train would put me in a very dark state of mind.. to say it very diplomatic..because actually for me that is cruel torture

...please guys always have your daily vlog, we get bored not watching new vlogs 😊

What about your house hunting?

Wow. That was a quick one 😉. Interesting for sure. I'm wondering how you find your way, because of those funny signs. I wouldn' t understand it. Have fun 😍

You will be amazed at all of the other "polite" rules of Japan as you navigate your way in the coming months! Have fun and I am having fun watching you have fun! Ha! Ha! 👍😉 from Ontario Canada 🇨🇦

The Asian culture is respectful and reserved in public places. Your family will get used to the peaceful atmosphere of Asia. The laws in Japan are strict. Check out Paolo from Tokyo vlogs to be informed about Japanese culture 💖

Everyone is always quiet on the train and/or Shinkansen --- one of the "polite" rules of Japan! My son is married to a Japanese gal and when I visit I am always amazed at the efficiency of the trains/shinkansen! I have noticed the quietness on the trains

Yeah, Tokyo is insane. I was up on Tokyo tower taking pictures of the cityscape going clockwise around the platform...at some point I was like, "wait a minute...", checked my photos, and noticed that I was on my second trip around. The city stretches to the horizon in every direction. You could spend your whole life there and not see everything because, by the time you've seen the last thing the beginning is entirely new. It's fascinating and exhausting, endlessly exiting and mundane all at the same time.