rastahomie
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- Mar 5, 2010
Interesting that the article mentions trains. I got on a train in Osaka, headed for Kashiwazaki, and between my broken Japanese and the railroad guy's broken English, I tried to explain to him that I didn't know how to tell I'd arrived in Kashiwazaki. He kept repeating, "The train arrives in Kashiwazaki at 0605." Finally it dawned on me what he was saying: if the train stops and it's 0605, that means the train is in Kashiwazaki. Because that's how Japanese trains work.
Took me a hard time to understand that. I've ridden on Amtrak; if the train is scheduled to arrive in Chicago at 0605, that means it might be there by 0900.