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		elif on March 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: I spend £8,500 a year to live on a train I've dreamed (and planned) on taking a 3 month trip in Japan, sleeping on first class overnight shinkansen trains. They are needle drop quiet every single day and foreigners can get unlimited rail passes for a good deal (though not as amazing as it used to be)

mundays on March 5, 2024 [–]

Overnight trains in Japan are all but extinct now. Only two remain (but really, one). It seems that the economics just don't add up.

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