Recently, the prices for many of JR’s rail passes have increased. Now a month into the new pricing structure, one thing is clear travellers need to make a concerted effort to eke out enough value for it to be a meaningful purchase.
We’ve seen a lot of unusual train stations in Japan over the years. Over in Gunma, there’s a station where persimmons hang above the platform, and over in Nagano, there’s the country’s only platform vineyard. Now, we’ve found another unusual train station, this time in Yamaguchi Prefecture, where there are bright red torii gates…