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Everything you need to know about the Japanese culture can be discovered just by riding the metro train. For the period I have lived in Japan, I have come to understand that the micro-train culture of Tokyo reflects a good portion of Japan itself. It is definitely an unavoidable transportation which everybody uses from the break of dawn till midnight.

Riding on the Tokyo train is quite the experience. In fact, to think about it, it is like watching a sitcom, many things happen, everyone tends to be serious and stern which in turn make all the incidents that more comedic. It is 7 am in the morning, rush hour traffic at Yokohama station on the Tokyu Toyoko line, everybody gets on the train, people pushing and shoving as usual.

I rush to get a seat and start observing the new show. What will it be today? Loud music from headphones? Babies crying on the rush hour silent train? Not a single flinch, not a single blink, not a single muscle twitched to the sound, it was as if the flatulence doomed us all at that precise moment. And the carriage ventilation turns on and the inevitable happens, the smell is pungent, as if someone had just opened a bottle of industrial vinegar fermenting cabbage… and yet still nobody moved or complained.

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Going back to the morning train ride, it is the Japanese way to be silent and to mind your business, and no matter how awkward and funny the situation is, you must remain passive, for this is the way things are done on the morning train. Out and About , by Ryo Nagae Narrator: Hush-hush shhh-shh hush-hush shhh-shh. Chattering away like a choo choo train.