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I think that makes you an honorary Canadian. This is why we are so impressed with your Japanese trains. Thank you for showing it.

The best part about your vlogs is that there are no talking! Which is love. All the best.

You suffered a lot for us. Thank you for your sacrifice. That looked like a brutal trip.

I think I'm cured of any desire to travel across Manitoba by rail. Thanks for your sacrifice.

I couldn't get asleep with a toilet under my bed, but you can imagine it's a throne and you are a prince...😊😊😊😊

The train was built when you were 7 years old. You are the hero of trains and towels!

Unfortunately, flights within Canada are far more expensive than International flights, a frustration for Canadians who want to visit their own country. ☹ Thanks for the tour of Churchill!

I have to just question the " oh this is a picture when I was 7 years old " at 2:17 . If you were , wow you are doing great for a 115 year old person . Thanks for the great travel posts.

As a Canadian who used your videos are as research for our Japan trips, thank you. You not only showed me around your country but my own

Okay, adding 'ride a sleeper train during a thunderstorm' to my bucket list. Love sleeping during a nighttime thunderstorm.

Wow, we just missed seeing you! My wife and I and four of our friends took this same train one week before you did, but instead of flying back to Winnipeg, we rented a house in Churchill, rented a van, and toured around the area, going out to the spaceport and seeing several of the local attractions. Our friends took a Beluga whale boat excursion and saw a polar bear on shore while they were on the boat (safer that way). My wife and I took a helicopter ride over the area, which was great. We all then rode back to Winnipeg on the train, and based on our arrival time, I think we must have been on the same train set that you rode north on August 1. We did not get the side trip over to Thompson because a train derailment closed the Thompson branch for a few days; we therefore sat for hours at The Pas in order to not overrun our schedule. We would have liked to have stayed for more than two nights in Churchill, but because the train runs only twice a week, we had the choice of two nights (not enough) or five nights (too many). My wife and I had a two-person sleeper, which was a bit more comfortable-looking that your single. Our four friends rode in the single sleepers like yours. The two-person sleeper has a separate toilet compartment so you can use the toilet at night without having to put the bed away.

One of the interesting things about this train is that you can pack your Canoe or Kayak along, and have the train drop you at a specific mile, then another train pick you up again at a different mile marker.

Thank you for sacrificing your comfort for our edification.

As far as a toilet in the middle of the room, it's better than no toilet at all.

Canada's trains are a true lifeline to our most remote communities where sometimes the train is literally the only way to get in and out. We are the second largest country in the world and yet have a smaller population than the state of California! 🇨🇦 🍁 I'm glad you visited us 😊

I don't know when those railway cars were made, but the styling is definitely postwar - fifties style. The good thing about those, that they were made to last... 70 years and counting. 🚃🐻‍❄

Really glad you were able to go on this unique journey. You have a very positive attitude. The amenities on this train fall ridiculously short, and you were still able to look at the positive side (views etc) Unfortunately, you only had 1 hour in Thompson since the train left Winnipeg late. When I went this past September, we had 4 hours, so we were able to head to town and grab food plus get groceries. This softened the blow of the disappointment. I was just hoping you would have done a daytime beluga tour though :(, given that you went during prime beluga season!

That was brave! Churchill...Yikes!!! But Kuga on a train at night in a thunderstorm, that was beautiful!✌🤟🍔

I have never been to Manitoba or Churchill, as a Nova Scotian I would like to travel this wild country more. Gotta love your "it's not bad" for all your meals is hilarious. Don't think that train service has any Michelin stars ☺

It's got a prison chic vibe - really nice, food to match, scenery too. Thanks for taking one for the team.

Glad you didnt go up in the winter. Sometimes the train stops for extended periods - along with the water, the heat (check out the winter temperatures in Churchill), and forget about food completely. I bow to your courage and if I could, would knight you as a lifetime Canadian of prestige.

As a Winnipeger I may never get to see Churchill with my own eyes! Thanks for the tour of my own backyard!

I Love 💕 Your Observations and sense of Humor! 😊❤

This train looks like a hybrid between a 1950s diner and a world war 2 bomber, like it's going to fly over Dresden and drop 20,000 lbs. of poutine. I want to ride it too.

Welcome to Canada, home of the most expensive flights and mobile phones. Thank you for the video

I like seeing the great North. Thanks for going there and taking me along.

Please take this as a compliment…your train journeys are so peaceful and enjoyable I inevitably doze off for a few minutes while watching. 😂

Kuga's displeasure is palpable on this trip 😂🤣😂 17:05 truly was epic, tho!

Travel within Canada is usually expensive. But that $981 flight is probably losing money. There's just not that many people flying in or out of Churchill, and your only other option out of there is to get back on the same train you came in on. :)

Great report! I did that trip once but we had to be bused part of the way due to tracks being washed out. The Chateau sleepers are the best because they have virtually every type of room in them. They’re also the only set of cars from the original 1955 order by Canadian Pacific that is still intact: all 29 are in service.

Thanks for the video. As a Canadian I would never do this. The room alone would freak me out for 3 days. Wow. I guess it’s one of those trips where you tough it out.

The Train is essentially a vending machine train like one of the Ferries in Japan but a lot less choices I think. Great video

Great video! At 13:29 you are in a town called Dauphin Manitoba.

From a Canadian living in Ottawa, I'm glad you did this trip so I don't have to!

The toilet in the middle of the room 😅 oh nooooo lol

You know Kuga has Stockholm syndrome when he gives that burger a passing grade. My condolence's from BC.

That they do not have a proper dining car on this train is really a pity. One of the great pleasures of long-distance train travel (for me) is having a nice lunch and/or dinner in a restaurant car, with nice white table cloth, proper porcellain dishes, metal cutlery, nice glasses and good food and drinks. Sozialising with random fellow travellers during a nice dinner while enjoing the landscape outside -that is why I love long distance trains. And I don't mind any delays - that means more train time for my money 😀.

I love your videos. No music and just simple visuals. One of the reason I became a subscriber. Our trains are so ancient and can't compare to your modern Japanese trains. What a disappointment it must have been for you. But thank you again for another great video, Kuga!

The prices for flights from airports in really norther areas, such as small parts of Canada and much of Alaska, are VERY high. In the case of Alaska, often the only way to reach some places is with a small plane: there are no roads or passenger trains leading to the "big" cities. It's pricing due to being a difficult flight, I think.

Oh, wow. The glass roof was cool, but the rest of it was such a disappointment considering how much you paid for it and how long you had to stay in the train! I hope you still had some fun!

Welcome to Canada:3 as a Canadian hope you had a great trip

You did well on that awful train! I couldn't stand spending 3 days staring at a toilet! 😂

Love your sense of humor!

You paid $500 usd to sleep in a bathroom and eat gas station food for 45 hours. Thank you Kuga for your great sacrifice for us, your fans.

I rode the Ocean train from Montreal to Halifax during fall foliage time a couple of years ago. Beautiful scenery along the way. Likewise on the Adirondack from Montreal to NYC.

Just found this channel and i absolutely LOVE it!!! I love how you also respect the people around you and blur out their faces, very thoughtful of you!! 💜

Many people still pack food for their trip even on trains witn dining cars. When I've gone from Moncton to Montreal and wasn't able to afford the dining car it was easiest to picnic on the train.

Years ago i met this Conductor from Winnipeg who use to work a mix freight to Churchill Included in the brakemans flagging kit was a shotgun to protect against bears This was in the 1970s when train order territory was still used

I been following your channel forever so imagine my surprise to see you riding a train in my province! :D I also feel very apologetic for us having such outdated and ugly sleeper trains…..lol

You missed the sculpture museum, the architecturally interesting community centre and the historic old wharf. Polar bears are at the garbage dump in October-November -- but the days are much shorter.

If you come back to Australia, come to Queensland we have the Spirit of the Outback you might enjoy it's an older train with a roomette but it has showers and dinning cars. We have the Spirit of Queensland too and other trains that go through rain Forrest's. But I suggest you visit in Winter for those.

Churchill by train - that's an actual adventure! Has the same feel as taking the Alaska Marine Highway ferry out to Dutch Harbor, semi-historical/old working-horse transport, funky food solutions [AMH ferry food & food prep is a whole mood, requiring research and extensive advance planning], travelling thru real remote wilderness {TWO DAYS north], crazy transport challenges like the train you met at 19:30, and super-cool destination.

A curious fact, F40 6453, which led your train, was at the head end of the very last daily, CP-routed Canadian through Thunder Bay, Regina, and Banff, back of January the 14th of 1990.

Glad to see you survived Canada's worst train trip! I'm willing to bet that train hasn't changed at all since my grandparents lived up north in the 70s. It's kind of sad that Ontario and Quebec are getting brand new trains, while the people of northern Manitoba have to put up with poor amenities and hand-me-down rolling stock from the streamliner era. Regardless, I'm happy to see you made the most of your trip and our natural beauty. Thanks for visiting!

My dad was a mounty there and a friend was a carpenter rhere in 1951. Back then there were 3 mounties there and it was a pritty wild place. Some years back he took that train and found the town very quiet and they have 12 mounties there now. I was offered the job as a travelling mechanic on that train. I turned it down but i wish i would have tried it

Awesome trip, the rolling stock looked very dated, still a very nostalgic trip thank you for sharing regards Doc from Down Under in Australia...like the comments below its similar here in Oz expensive to fly around Internal (Domestic) in Australia but cheaper International go figure hehehe....

He needs a shirt: "I survived 3 days in a furnished rolling living loo."

This is one crazy train journey and flight back, this is very remote territory. Thank you for posting.

My first thought when watching this video was "What even goes on in Churchill?" Somehow the outcome was as I expected 😆

Thanks for taking the time to document your journey on VIA to Churchill. That trip from Winnipeg to Churchill by VIA has long been on my bucket list. It is off now, and in the trash. I would find the cramp quarters and over-priced froze foods too disappointing - enough to ruin the trip.

That train looks like it was made in the 1950s!

Not the most luxurious of accommodations, I agree, yet it seemed like a nice break from our streamlined, high tech, fast paced world. A reminder of an earlier, quieter time, when getting from Point A to Point B was practical but not glamorous. A reminder that there are people going hungry in many places, and having access to nourishment 3 times a day is something to be thankful for. I enjoy ALL the trips you take us along, Kuga, and learn something along the way.

The shitter was a nice touch

Great video. I live in winnipeg so it was great to see home in one of your videos. Thanks.

I hope you got a good meal when you got back to Winnipeg, anyway! Thanks for this tour :-)

I love your commentary

Thanks Kuga. This WAS on my bucket list. But you've saved me a whole heap of time and money! 🙏👍

Thank you for this video! As someone from Winnipeg, I have always wanted to travel to Churchill. Unfortunately with the cost of travel, it’s cheaper to get to other places than it would be to travel to Churchill. Hopefully you enjoyed your time in Manitoba and Canada!

VIA can't possibly think that's a good advertisement for them. Pretty embarrassing. 50kph! The burger looked like it had thrown itself up. I appreciate your sacrifice for us. There's not a single reason I'd undertake that journey.

Thoughts of a prison cell came to mind when you showed us your room, with its prominent loo and ‘dead’ paint scheme. Not exactly luxurious travel - though, as ever, you make the journey totally fascinating for your viewers. Thanks!

I hope you had (or are having) a good trip to my country my man :) a belated welcome to you!

At least you have fun on your adventure and you had good weather as well. Thanks for sharing your video.

I enjoy watching your channel. Thanks!

That is some upmarket station!. Thank you for the video.😊good morning my someonexx

Hey!! Great channel, I just subscribed! Thanks for taking the time to make these videos! And thanks for visiting Manitoba! Sending good vibes from Winnipeg .!!! 😎 💪 🚂

Compared to train food in Japan, the Canadian train fare looks fairly awful, lol! Sort of resembles stuff served in jail! But the view is better 😎

The toilet in the middle of the room is ergonomic, the lid is your table for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

I am simply amazed at the lack of cleanliness on both trains - both sleepers and one supposed to be the "new" cars. I have traveled on U.S. trains many times; sleeper cars and just seats and never have I seen such dirt and dingy plates, etc. Although Amtrack has its flaws too, none are as bad as these two trains.

Everyone who wants to immigrate to Canada should have to watch your 3 overnight-train videos from west to east. Prison-like conditions on board our ancient trains, no good options for commercial travel, and outrageous pricing. The food was atrocious in 2 out of your 3 trips. I'm ashamed as a Canadian that my country is now like the way we pictured Communist Russia in 1960. So sad. You won't believe it, but Canada, my country, used to be FANTASTIC! I'm sorry you didn't get to see us in our prime and glory. Maybe we'll be great someday soon, and maybe you will return to a new Canadian experience. I hope so! Thanks for your excellent, amusing and entertaining work!!!

Wow flights are expensive but I think after watching you on the train I would prefer the 2.5 hour plane ride then the 45 hours on the train, I really started feeling sorry for you on that train, no dining car that’s bad especially for a 3 day trip. It was nothing like your Japanese trains

Wow that train looked like it was from the 50's. Or "1st" class on a train in Central Asia.

"$981 for a 2.5 hour flight?" Welcome to Canada. The prices of those frozen food delicacies were pretty steep too. Canada has become the land of the gouged.

"open the sesame seed" haha love it!

Aw, poor Kuga! This is the worst train travel i've seen, but at least you survived! Hope you get proper bed, meal and bath after this.

Thanks for the video. I've always wanted to take this trip. Now I don't have to. I've seen enough.

Great trip. Finally another Sleeper train route in Canada, and yeah it's ant mainstream. I also thinking the same about why American Train, especially roomette at single level carriage having toilet/WC inside the room. Maybe to avoiding long line if use sharing one, but it's a weird. No dining car on train and you didn't have food stock? Enjoy the lounge food. That 1 hour stop moment, why didn't find convenience store for supplying food onboard?

Kuga, it looked like you had a decent time on the Northern Sleeper train here in Canada. I too, was disappointed that there was no dining car on this train. I think you missed something at 19:02 though.. You said trees, trees, trees, etc.. and you forgot the grass and the bushes.. lol!!! Yes, it's very wild up there, as there aren't many people that can handle living on the prairies through storms. Whether they are thunder storms or snowstorms, it's tough living way out in the middle of nowhere sometimes. It's beautiful, but you could get super lonely if you are by yourself. Hoping you had a good time visiting Canada, and trying out our antiquated train system. (Yes, I know it could be modernized a whole lot more.. ). Unfortunately Canada cannot put in electric trains from coast to coast, as the distances between communities is sometimes too far to feasibly electrify the whole system. Enjoy our diesel trains, and hoping the scenery was to your liking. From a Maritimer (Atlantic Canada). 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🥰🥰

You were 7 years old in 1915?Man,you re doin well...

I want to go back to Churchill. I visited last time in 1989. But I have alot of other trips that are above this on my bucket list. The Canadian and the train between prince rupert and jasper. Along with camping in my van in the Canadian Rockies. I'm down to the last rail trip in the US to complete the amtrak routes.

You kniw we Canadians are not Americans. We can handle mediocre and are not spoiled. 😅😂 We are true pioneers. We are thankful for small bkessings in a wirld if expectations and entirlement mibdsets. The train is utilitarian not a posh bullet train. Wilderness still counts here. Sorry if that offends the upper drusties lols!

Nice video

Thanks for coming and rating Canadian trains. I wish that I could come to Japan and return the favour. I was seriously considering taking this trip. But not with that food....

Loved you comments, as usual, but ghasty trip. Landscape? What landscape?

This was an interesting trip. I have never been that far north. It would be interesting to see what it's like in the winter. The food seemed to be mediocre, but the trip made up for it. This trip would not be at the top of my list, but it was fun watching it, and the price that you paid was very reasonable.

Прекрасное путешествие, Куга!

On my bucket list of things “not to do”…….travel by train in Canada😮😮😮

With that awesome food provided on the train you must have gained many kilograms 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮

THE VIDEO WAS AWESOME AS USUAL ❤ ALSO I RECOMMEND YOU... WHENEVER YOU TRAVEL IN A TRAIN, DO TRY TO SHOW SOME OUTSIDE VIEW TOO❤ ESPECIALLY WHEN YOU ARE TRAVELING IN A TRAIN THAT RUNS IN A BEAUTIFUL WILDERNESS ❤ LOVE TO YOUR CHANNEL

After this there is no way im getting on a train. Thanks for the journey.