Tokyo Family Fun

A good many visitors to Japan have been known to utter out loud, “There sure are a lot of trains in Japan!” …And they wouldn’t be wrong! We happen to have the world’s highest per capita train ridership and are home to The world’s busiest station. It is not an overstatement to say that rails built modern-day Japan, and finding out just how true this is and how that came to be is pretty interesting, not to mention it makes for a good outing by yourself or with the family. So what can we find inside? The Railway Museum (鉄道博物館 Tetsudō Hakubutsukan) opened on October 14th, 2007. It was built and operated by the East Japan Railway Culture Foundation, a non-profit affiliate of the East Japan Railway Company (JR East), as a successor to the original museum that used to be located just east Ochanomizu station under the JR tracks near Akihabara. Inside you’ll find restored and preserved 30 railway cars covering everything from steam engines to the Shinkansen “Bullet Train.” Not to be missed are the train cab simulators which are every bit what you’d face if you were to pilot a JR train, down to the last switch and dial.…