🇨🇦3 Days on the Canada's Most Northern Sleeper Train || VIA Rail (Winnipeg→Churchill)
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- ◆VIA Rail Sleeper Train (Winnipeg→Churchill)
◆I'm a Japanese train enthusiast and stayed in the US🇺🇸 and Canada🇨🇦 for a month.
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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.
Not before he sees his first hockey game. 😊
You suffered a lot for us. Thank you for your sacrifice. That looked like a brutal trip.
Hey, we got a lot of space and not a lot of people to fill it out here. Give us a break 😅
VIA rail stinks
Yummy frozen food .
@@TalkTalk44And you never purchase it? Ok.😳🇨🇦🤷
@@anim8rjbSorry we are not Japanese. 🥴🇨🇦🤷 I am sure your country lacks also. Am I wrong?
I think I'm cured of any desire to travel across Manitoba by rail. Thanks for your sacrifice.
Probably see some wildlife
I'd still like to, but the toilet just in the middle of the room is disgusting. Maybe they'll get new trains in 10-50 years lol
@@blarfroer8066 Its such an odd thing which I have seen other North American trains do, i'm sure even in another Kuga video. I guess in the 50's the concept of people sharing a bathroom on a train was too communist for North Americans capitalism ventures.
Agree one hundred percent, definitely not for me
@@thuggoeI saw wildlife 55 years ago when it was abundant. Encroachment negates seeing it now in daylight. Sadly this world has missed a true blessing if viewing nature up close. I did. Moose, brown and black bear, grizzlies, deer, grouse, beaver, elk, and others that slip my mind currently. But wolves even. When nature was not blocked from our access deep in the woods. Now everything is restricted monetized so freedom to explore is minimal at best. I saw much as a child. Different world then, truly precious and wild.😢🙍🇨🇦I am 62 now and realize how sad but thankful this makes me.
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!
That's the same the world over. Domestic travel flights of under 2hrs can cost more the international flights of up to 4 plus hrs here in NZ
VIA is REALLY expensive. To go out west with two people in a small sleeping room could cost $3000. It's not economically viable for most people.
@@henrivanbemmelA toilet in the middle of the room right next to the bed?! Only the Canadians could be so filthy and unhygienic. And they want $500 for it... no thanks. Dirty, smelly, and overpriced!
Via doesn't and will never understand train travel purposes and how to attract more users.
@@he11ange1 Perhaps, but their funding has been slashed more than any developed nation. Europeans laugh at us and the US when it comes to trains.
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.
Because it was built in the 1950’s with that technology.
I agree about the 1950's decorating, although I was going to add it looks so drab it could be from the Soviet era. Why would anyone want to ride it? These designers should realize if they combine modern and minimal, all sense of luxury is lost and what's left is UGLY, so it better be inexpensive!
@@nutmeg208 A lot of people just ride it for camping on crown land that can't be accessed by car. Lots of (canadian) RUclipsrs take it and get dropped in the middle of nowhere with nothing but some equipment and a canoe, it seems like fun and I plan on trying it for myself in the near future.
Accurate humour.
The best part about your vlogs is that there are no talking! Which is love. All the best.
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 😊
When the wheat board curtailed maintaining the tracks on this route to Churchill, the tracks decayed to the point Via actually ceased this train's operations. It took government and First Nations involvement to reinstate this train... Keep in mind there is no paved road to Canada's Arctic coast including Hudson Bay... The last stretch of the Trans Canadian Highway wasn't paved north of Lake Superior until the 1960s... Furthermore, the Alcan or Alaskan Highway wasn't built even as a gravel road until World War II mostly by the US Corps of Engineers...
@@ronclark9724 I never heard of Churchill until I saw this presentation. Now I know.
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.
Wow! How cool!
Isn’t that called a flag stop train?
@@ctempleton3 As far as I know, flag stops are generally small stations that are seldom used, but availalbe. But I could be wrong on that.
@@nonenowherebye I was always told that flag stop are when you put a flag out next to the railroad and they stop along the line. But I too could be wrong.
The train was built when you were 7 years old. You are the hero of trains and towels!
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!
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.
If it were US dollars he made money back. It is Canadian he paid goofy. Lols! 😅🤦🏻🇨🇦We pay higher costs than Americans due to importation if goods from America. We do not get a break on our own lumber shipped off to them. They gouge us when it is reciprocating goods. Did you not read the title. Canadian. Not US.
I couldn't get asleep with a toilet under my bed, but you can imagine it's a throne and you are a prince...😊😊😊😊
Never camped in a trailer, camper, RV, cabin or roughed it? You would rather no toilet? Lols! Campers do it all the time. It is not a house. 😅😂🤷🇨🇦
@@N0_191_ I appreciate your experience in cambers, RVs, trailers, tents etc. Thank you for your interest. I've never been in any of them. Maybe at the next life... ❤️
@@N0_191_ Are you REALLY trying to defend the toilet? Is it too much to ask for a toilet in a separate room like every other sleeper train? 🤨
@@N0_191_ I would rather a communal toilet elsewhere rather than a toilet in my room
@skyef8172 as long as there is air freshener
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.
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.
Just out of curiosity, how long would you have to wait to get a train home again?
@@judyjohnson9610 The train runs twice a week, so it depends. The train arrives in Churchill on Tuesday and Thursday at 0900, and departs Churchill on Thursday and Saturday at 1930. So in theory if you took the train from Winnipeg that departs at 1205 on Tuesday and arrives Churchill on Thursday at 0900, you could catch the train (same trainset) leaving Churchill the same day at 1930, giving you about ten hours in Churchill. When my friends and I traveled there in July 2023, we arrived on Thursday morning, stayed two nights in Churchill, and left on Saturday.
Shorter answer: Depending on the day you leave Winnipeg, your train back from Churchill could be same day, two days later, or seven days later.
@@kastandlee Thanks so much. Two nights in town would be nice for a break from the train. I did Edmonton to Toronto in September and had one night in Toronto before the return trip. It would have been nicer to have two nights in a decent bed lol
@@judyjohnson9610 While we enjoyed our two nights in Churchill, I know that my wife and I would have liked to have been there several more days. Unfortunately, with the only choices being two or seven nights, we had to take the shorter one. Some of the members of our group did the Beluga whale watching from boats, while my wife and I dropped CA$800 for a 30 minute helicopter tour of the area.
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 ☺
Looks better than US food.
It's got a prison chic vibe - really nice, food to match, scenery too. Thanks for taking one for the team.
As a Winnipeger I may never get to see Churchill with my own eyes! Thanks for the tour of my own backyard!
That was brave! Churchill...Yikes!!! But Kuga on a train at night in a thunderstorm, that was beautiful!✌🤟🍔
Thank you for sacrificing your comfort for our edification.
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.
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 😀.
Agreed! I went from Edmonton to Toronto and back again recently. The food was wonderful and made the holiday complete
You royalty? Never used non porcelain dishes on picnics...😮wuh? Food still tastes good in spite of vanity if the dishes used lols!😅🥴🤦🏻🇨🇦 Spoiled people think they are royalty I think. Roflz! 😂😋☺️🥴 If I am hungry I care less what my food comes on. But I love picnic style and care less about posh or appearances.😆👏🌹
You royalty? Never used non porcelain dishes on picnics...😮wuh? Food still tastes good in spite of vanity if the dishes used lols!😅🥴🤦🏻🇨🇦 Spoiled people think they are royalty I think. Roflz! 😂😋☺️🥴 If I am hungry I care less what my food comes on. But I love picnic style and care less about posh or appearances.😆👏🌹
@@N0_191_ For the price that we pay to travel on thr train, we might just expect a nice table setting. And the food is really very good. Except for this particular run. You get packaged microwaved food.
Please take this as a compliment…your train journeys are so peaceful and enjoyable I inevitably doze off for a few minutes while watching. 😂
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. :)
Welcome to Canada, home of the most expensive flights and mobile phones. Thank you for the video
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!
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.
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.
Okay, adding 'ride a sleeper train during a thunderstorm' to my bucket list. Love sleeping during a nighttime thunderstorm.
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.
yea a room like that.. and it costs 690...Christ.....
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
I like seeing the great North. Thanks for going there and taking me along.
Kuga's displeasure is palpable on this trip 😂🤣😂 17:05 truly was epic, tho!
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!
I Love 💕 Your Observations and sense of Humor! 😊❤
From a Canadian living in Ottawa, I'm glad you did this trip so I don't have to!
You know Kuga has Stockholm syndrome when he gives that burger a passing grade. My condolence's from BC.
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.
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!! 💜
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!
The Train is essentially a vending machine train like one of the Ferries in Japan but a lot less choices I think.
Great video
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.
The toilet in the middle of the room 😅 oh nooooo lol
Amtrak has those too on the viewliner 1 roommates.
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.
Welcome to Canada:3 as a Canadian hope you had a great trip
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
We could have used that same flagging kit on the Thunder Bay to Ignace run! lol
There are still rifles on board.
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.
Highly recommended. Drove to Fairbanks on the Alcan highway and rode the AMH from Skagway with the car to Bellingham. A real working ferry. Not a cruiser, no casino or jumbotron, just honest transportation for real people and their tearful arrivals and departures. And the Amtrak Bellingham depot is just across the street if you're taking the train south. ended
This is one crazy train journey and flight back, this is very remote territory. Thank you for posting.
Great video! At 13:29 you are in a town called Dauphin Manitoba.
He needs a shirt: "I survived 3 days in a furnished rolling living loo."
"$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.
Yes, $7 for a Burger King Whopper! Yikes!
@@bobjohnson205That is low end pricing. Our food costs are staggering here in BC especially. I am 62 and trust me, it is tough as a n older female living alone on a puny disability pension. No not full pension either. Three meals a day is a no go.😢🇨🇦🤷
@@N0_191_ That's very sad! Trudeau should be ashamed!
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. 🚃🐻❄
For what that cost, paying that much extra for frozen food was a crying shame. The bed reminded me of a pull out drawer in a morgue and at first I thought the toilet was a table. Sad.
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.
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!
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!!!
Thanks Kuga. This WAS on my bucket list. But you've saved me a whole heap of time and money! 🙏👍
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....
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
We are planning to go to Churchill next year. We were going to do one way by plane and the other by train. Thanks for your trip, now we are flying both ways. Like many are saying, thanks for your sacrifice trip.
The toilet in the middle of the room is ergonomic, the lid is your table for breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
and if you do not like your breakfast just flush it
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.
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.
Back in the 90 s I was repairing those locomotives.
That train looks like it was made in the 1950s!
it was. Potentialy in the 40s
I think these cars date from 1953.
Except for the locomotives it was!
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.
I only saw one train in this video. Did I miss something?
You did well on that awful train! I couldn't stand spending 3 days staring at a toilet! 😂
Would you rather have a private toilet for you alone or a public toilet you share with strangers for three days?
Wow, that train is probably older than me! And I'm pretty darn old.
But thank you for the video.
The only use for the little room is sleeping and, um, toileting. Otherwise, just the dome or the lounge.
Perhaps go to Churchill in the winter. Then you can be eaten by a polar bear!
ETA: $985 for a 2.5 hour flight? Why? Because did you REALLY want to spend another 2.5 days on that train?
After this there is no way im getting on a train. Thanks for the 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 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
That room is an embarrassment for Canada’s national railway, VIA. I have viewed many railroad journeys on the internet, even the cheapest Russian rail is nicer than the room you stayed in. And yeah the cost of travelling in this great country is prohibitive! No wonder we go elsewhere! Thanks for sharing your journey with us.
Great video. I live in winnipeg so it was great to see home in one of your videos. Thanks.
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.
Yes, the price of the food was scary!
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
I hope you got a good meal when you got back to Winnipeg, anyway! Thanks for this tour :-)
He probably got a good meal on the plane flight back! lol
45 hours without dining car. That's crazy (!!!!!). Now....I may just bit the bullet and fly there to see polar bear instead of taking the 3-day train ride. lol.
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.
At least you have fun on your adventure and you had good weather as well. Thanks for sharing your video.
I hope you had (or are having) a good trip to my country my man :) a belated welcome to you!
You should have gone up in the observation car during the storm. I bet you would have been mesmerized. I used to live on the high plains in New Mexico and huge thunderstorms were breathtaking at times. You could see lighting flashes from a hundred miles away.
You were 7 years old in 1915?Man,you re doin well...
In Canada, freight trains have priority.
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!
That is some upmarket station!. Thank you for the video.😊good morning my someonexx
My first thought when watching this video was "What even goes on in Churchill?" Somehow the outcome was as I expected 😆
Wow that train looked like it was from the 50's. Or "1st" class on a train in Central Asia.
The cars were built in '54 by the Budd company in Philadelphia, PA for the CPR trans-continental 'Canadian' train. The locomotives were built in '86 or so.
I wish we weren't stuck with such aging rolling stock :-/ After the disappointing performance of the LRC stock in the 1980s, there was an attempt to replace it with the Renaissance stock, which was originally intended for an aborted sleeper service for the Chunnel; it's currently falling apart. The current government is trying again with Siemens Charger sets, but it doesn't look like they will be seen outside the Québec-Windsor corridor.
Those 'Chunnel' cars sat in a secure railyard in Thunder Bay for years before they were finally sent to be refurbished at a local plant for the 'Renaissance' service. I don't think Via knew exactly what to do with them after they bought them. Kind of like the ex-British diesel subs that we bought around the same time. I think the Brits 'saw us coming' both times! lol
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.
I enjoy watching your channel. Thanks!
I love your commentary
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.
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?
Love your sense of humor!
Thanks for the video. I've always wanted to take this trip. Now I don't have to. I've seen enough.
VIA Rail does not have very good rooms on their sleeper cars. The Roomette on Amtrak's Superliner is better than VIA's mid-tier rooms.
Dome lounge cars are nice for the nostalgia though.
Love your videos! I'm sorry you didn't see any polar bears, but I'm also sorry you didn't at least dip your toes in Hudson Bay! Cape Merry isn't a bad spot to catch sight of beluga whales... Safe travels!
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 .!!! 😎 💪 🚂
With that awesome food provided on the train you must have gained many kilograms 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
As far as a toilet in the middle of the room, it's better than no toilet at all.
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....