Oh man, I think it’s the other way around. In Japan, the country with the highest rate of passenger train usage in the world, rail fans are a well-known category of nerd.
At one station, there was a mini museum and display of children’s train artwork. Saw kids proudly posing in front of it for their parents to take pictures plenty.
Oh man, I think it’s the other way around. In Japan, the country with the highest rate of passenger train usage in the world, rail fans are a well-known category of nerd.
At one station, there was a mini museum and display of children’s train artwork. Saw kids proudly posing in front of it for their parents to take pictures plenty.
Thanks for that link, that’s so cool. I know of otaku in general, but densha otaku are new to me.
By the way the perfect kiss, that’s referenced in the first paragraph there, looks like this:
Train boop
There’s also a long-running series of train simulator games, of Japanese origin, that had specially produced controllers for PlayStation 2.
Just like Japan has the ‘Air Traffic Controller’ series, when Western titles seem to have ended in the nineties.
At arcades, I always see someone playing the train simulator game where they try to stop the train perfectly at a station. Only in Japan.