[2019.11 Update] PSA: Harajuku Station’s old station building may be demolished after the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics, so railfans should make the trip and check it out while th...

A short, stream-of-consciousness recap of Chestnut’s last day in Tokyo....

Chicago had long been on my travel wish list, but I never made it there. This time, my parents also said they wanted to visit, so we finally locked in the trip: 4 adults and 1 chil...

Kuriko takes us to the JR East Railway Museum in Omiya, Saitama Prefecture, where we look back on a century of Japanese railway history. A train whistle sounds once; before long, o...

This article is a travel diary covering the journey from Enoden Kamakura-Koko-Mae Station to Kamakura, Yokohama, and finally Tokyo Tower....

Because Lizi’s itinerary on the third day of the Japan trip was quite packed, it has been split into two separate posts. This article covers the first half of the day’s travel note...

From the old capital of Karakorum to the new capital of Ulaanbaatar, it’s a six-hour drive—a journey that took the Mongols nearly a thousand years....

We’re heading to a place called Karakorum, a city that still carries the former glory and pride of the Mongol Empire. The bus ride from Ulaanbaatar to Kharkhorin takes about half a...

Riding Mongolian Railway Train No. 23, I arrived in Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar....

There’s one item on my bucket list that I hope to experience in my lifetime: some of the world’s most famous train routes (as long as I’m not doing it alone). From the Orient Expre...

The “-stans” of Central Asia are also an important part of the Silk Road. But as former Soviet territory, they remained quite closed off until a few years ago, with visa rules near...