So am I ,still single.

@@lindaellen808 - Me too. 😆

Someday we'll all find the Komachis to our Hayabusas. 🥲

Yes! How does it know what ticket to keep?? So cool

@@FrozenRose816 Probably a bar code or something, on the backside. I'm guessing 🙂

@@kittehgo Good guess, but no; barcodes would be too easily blocked. The tickets are actually magnetically encoded. If you ever see the backside of those tickets, you’ll find that they’re a dark brown-gray color. It’s like the little stripe on a New York MetroCard or SFBART ticket, just across the entire card.

@@bubbledoubletrouble Ah yes, that makes much more sense than barcode..

I don’t think its magnetic because magnetism can leak out of both cards at the same time even when they are not that close together and cause a bad read. It could be light and barcode driven because it punches a hole in the ticket at the destination to make sure it can’t be used again. It also needs to have the start location and destination info so it knows that you paid enough for the trip. They wouldn’t want someone paying for a 1 hour bullet train trip and riding it for 5 hour trip, it’s inconceivable that all that info would be magnetically encoded into a paper ticket that would be discarded. It’s likely reads a barcode printed on the sides of ticket. The ticket reader takes multiple tickets at once but it goes through the reader one at a time then combined back at the end and pushed out together, but it does super fast. That’s not all. The machines that sell the tickets can also take multiple cash bills of different denominations at the same time. If that isn’t amazing enough, commuter train ticket selling machines can dispense prepaid rail cards too. Basically it’s a card you can put money into up to 20,000 yen ( 180 US dollars give or take) which can be used to pay for rides on train and even buy things at all the shops and most restaurants in the rail station, and convenience stores and certain shops and restaurants in Japan. The rail cards use NFT (the tap to pay technology, and not the digital art ponsi money scheme).

I am reasonably familiar with Japan’s geography but it’s a big place and I also find the Google map often adds useful context.

😂😂❤

More importantly "no talking", which gives each of his audience their own experience of solo traveling. Amazing!

And unlike at least here in the US, food options in stations and airports are reasonably priced and provide excellent quality.

Food in Japan is mostly very good. It’s rare to get a bad meal and there are lots of surprisingly good and surprisingly cheap options.

Sunflower ferry you can't miss that orange flower. :-)

I'm amazed that he even saw the ferry at all! Excellent eyesight!😁

@@tapestry6455 🎶"Sunflowerrr, sunflowerrr..." 😆

@@CaffieneKitty yeh but my sunflowers are yellow!

Oh god not again

Love how humour is universal 😊

Japanese food is impeccable compared to US standards. I’d drive to Japan for a burger if I could 🤣

Then he will have change his YT channel title from "solo" to "couple" 😃

I just got back. It's an amazing country, you'll love it there

I feel you ! ( Italian here!! )

Yeah, in Germany trains are always late and/or broken. Traveling by train seems so relaxing in Japan because you know it will work and you will always be on time...

@@neonfarbenrausch I thought Germany was supposed to be efficient etc, I've never been to Germany though so I haven't experienced there. I've been to many other places, but not Japan yet.

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Thanks for the super thanks!

Thanks for the super! I hope you will make it that happen again.

Thanks for the ekiben!

Thanks for the super. Sony RX100m7 (Good focus, poor stability) and iPhone 13 mini (mainly food footages)

Thank you for wishing me! I didn’t expect to get this message. I appreciate it.

Lucky you! 😭😭😭

I'm moving to Japan next month! I'm so excited too, really can't wait