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I will be in Tokyo on 13th to 15th June 2024. I like to book overnight train with bed in private room. What would you recommend for a nice train to sleep overnight to see sunrise/sunset and have good food in the train and see beautiful ocean/scenic view? I don't mind a 2 day 1 night train trip. I will leave Tokyo to Sinagpore on 16th June 2024. Please recommend what type of train travel route & timing from 13 June to 15 June 2024. | |||
| by Jannet Ang (guest) | |||
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I don't think there is a restaurant on the train, but when I rode the Sunrise Seto from Yokohama to Takamatsu, I passed Seto Ohashi Bridge around 6 o'clock, so I went to the observation salon and looked out at the Seto Inland Sea. It stays with me. | |||
| by haro1210 | rate this post as useful | ||
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Must it be a train? There are ferries between cities in Japan with a room and restaurant for dinner, lunch and breakfast even 2 days 1 night. | |||
| by James (guest) | rate this post as useful | ||
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Sleeper trains are not that common in Japan. For those which have a cult following - I believe that they are often booked out months in advance. The two main locations which comes to mind are the one mentioned above (Yokohama to Seto Islands) along with a train that runs on the west coast (but I'm not sure if it's a night train). If I was looking for something like you - I'd highly consider the ferries which have also been mentioned. Some people have 30 minute youtube videos on them and they are strangly addictive to watch. | |||
| by mfedley | rate this post as useful | ||
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What you are looking for basically doesnft exist (in Japan) anymore. There used to be more night trains there, but except for the Sunrise Seto/Izumo they have all ceased operation. The Sunrise Seto/Izumo is wildly popular, and your chances of booking a private sleeper compartment are close to none. You really have to know how the booking system works to stand a chance of snagging a compartment, or even an open platform space called a nobi-nobi seat, on your own. Tickets go on sale 30 days before departure and are generally sold out immediately. It is probably too late to get even a nobi-nobi seat overnight in June of this year. For a future trip, if you contact a travel agency specializing in Japan (such as JTB) they might be able to help you. But the Sunrise Seto/Izumo does not have food service. If you want a nice meal you need to bring it on board yourself. It also doesnft run along the ocean, for the most part. I once took the Sunrise Izumo from Okayama to Yasugi (not overnight, just for a few hours in the morning) with a nobi-nobi seat, and I thought it was a really fun and scenic ride (and I had a lovely self-catered breakfast), but this is very far from the experience you are describing. There are a number of fun and scenic train rides in Japan, some of them quite luxurious and with good food available, but they are not night trains with sleeper compartments. | |||
| by Kim (guest) | rate this post as useful | ||
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@mfedley - not booked out months in advance because the tickets don't go on sale that early. But, often they do sell out the moment they do go on sale. Last time I seriously looked at an over-night train (some years ago), it was expensive and the prospect of having our trip disrupted because we could not guarantee seats was a big negative. My friend was keen, but for me the idea of a bad night sleep on a noisy/slow train was certainly not attractive. | |||
| by JapanCustomTours | rate this post as useful | ||
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These kind of trains exist, but they are unfortunately too pricey for most of us ^^` (and difficult to book on top of that) The Mizukaze runs between Kyoto and Shimonoseki And the Seven stars in Kyushu. | |||
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