

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.
Hey you kids, get off my WLAN!


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.


… given that they are super common?
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.


A thorough test made up of several tests can give a full scale IQ with component scores. Big gaps in the scores, like between verbal intelligence and working memory or processing speed, even helps us detect ADHD.
I feel like I need high processing speed more than anything else when playing competitive video games.
The author mentioned that keeping those railways around, instead of just getting rid of them for cars like the US did, allowed the cities in Japan to become that dense in the first place. It’s not because Tokyo and Osaka were always this populated. Even then,
The urban area of Tokyo, the densest Japanese city, has a weighted population density less than that of many European cities, including Paris, Madrid, or Athens.
Of course there are plenty of people who live in Tokyo proper, like I do, but most people I know actually live on its periphery, where the density isn’t as crazy.
I don’t know much either, but it was unexpectedly funny when I heard a Japanese grandma I know say “Arigatou, Shooter-san. Wish you would’ve done it sooner though.”