2 Days on America’s $1000 Overnight Sleeper Train | New York - Chicago 

When I see vids of capsule hotels / trains in Japan, I'm so embarrassed for the US. $1k for this ride here. Expensive. Gross/dirty/disgusting, emblematic of many things, customer service, morals, values, on and on...

I think part of it has to do with how commonly it is used as a method of travel in each country. I could be wrong, but it seems to be a more common way to travel in Japan for just everyday type travel where as in the US it is more of a novelty and you take a train specifically to travel by train. Now I will say considering that it is a bit weird that they haven't upgraded more to make things nicer and more luxurious, but I'm guessing that has to do with revenue.

yes, we are being cheated here in the US.

@@SFGal9 You had me until the morals/values shite. Your soapbox agenda has nothing to do with this. It's corporate greed and the airlines crushing any hope of high speed rail in the united states.

@@izzieluv Yeah about the upgrades on luxury multiple companies have tried that but they end up not being popular. You mentioned that people ride trains on a daily basis so the vast majority of riders are travelling for business, not for vacation. That being said a lot of Japanese transportation RU-vid channels don't feature many of the higher-end tourist oriented trains that run in the countryside of Japan. JR Kyushu's trains are especially impressive in this regard!

and yet he ignored the man walking with his cross down the middle of the road. 🙂

I'm Brazilian, that is, I'm also part of the American continent, and yet much of the United States is still mythological to other countries. In that bus scene I felt like I was witnessing a painting by Evgeny Lushpin or Linden Frederick. This countryside neighborhood aura is very beautiful, there is also a lot of that in Brazil, but in its own way. And our school buses are different haha

To be fair being Scottish and moving to the states for a year or two I was kinda giddy when I saw one for the first time !

Kinda like the famous red Solo cup.

Ngl mate, when I went to America for the first time I thought those school buses were only in movies and kids stuff; I had no idea they were like an actual mode of transport real people used imao

He didn't learn his lesson.

Or… they could just provide a good service to begin with.

​@@shamelesshussy fr

@@shamelesshussy exactly!

Going on trains on journeys which can be done in 3 hours by plane is dumb

@@sneedsfeed757 It depends on WHY you are going by train. I probably could have walked from Flåm to Oslo faster than the train ride took (we lost electric power at literally the highest point of the journey and were delayed a few hours), but then I would have missed the most amazing rail-side scenery in the world, which is why I went by train in the first place. If the idea is simply to get from point to point, then yeah, go by plane. But if you are going to see the countryside, a plane isn't going to do that for you. It's a shame our trains suck so badly. The USA is a beautiful country.

@@larkmacgregor3143 well there are counties 3x and 10x the size of your Nordic countries and people have work to attend too some people would much rather use the time they save with family rather than chugging along in days long rides

@@sneedsfeed757 yeah and some people enjoy trains so each to their own.

@@larkmacgregor3143 come India lol

Yeah not like they were all occupied anyways. Bad form, this. One of the more crappy rooms I've seen, looks like sleeper cars in Norway ca 1985 but they were less grimy

Amtrak trains shake constantly. No point in it.

I would have complained to they gave me the other room. And or gave me the price of my ticket back.

That pizza was probably the best deal in New York City. 😁

Sleeper accommodations on Amtrak are priced for double occupancy (the room is a fixed cost and you pay a coach fare for each occupant). They also sell out pretty quickly.

Yeah I too was thinking he should've complained and asked for the better room. What do you think, would he have got it?

The roomette would have been much less and perfect for a single traveler.

I would have put some towel in the gap to make it stop.

@@bepowerification I guess the towel in the toilet door was there for exact that reason as well.

@@Time4Technology yes.

Seriously, if any of those newer rooms weren't booked at all he should have asked if he could be moved. I would have.

@@FrozenRose816 you aren't kidding. There is no way I'm paying $1000 to listen to that all night.

Because Japan cares . America doesn't

@@trinitywright7122 could've have said it better myself. And it keeps getting worse in every way.

Maybe he just wanted to see some different sights?

I appreciate it. It's still a different experience and it's not the worst idea if you want to tour America as a train/traveling enthusiast. He has mentioned that he really missed how many sleeper trains there are in America compared to Japan. Also at least the citys are different in America.

Japanese trains are the best.

Ya it was dirty looking I would have been grossed out, and I agree. the washcloth in the door was to stop the rattle I was hoping he would figure it out and have a better trip. The food was even depressing looking. bleh. Ive never taken a train here and that does not encourage me to.

^^this. That's why they provide all these towels. For you to stop everything from rattling.

Ach, Sie auch? 😉

Yea I was screaming "don't use mattress!!!" Like it was a horror film. Japanese trains make Amtrak look like Oregon trail. I'm surprised he didn't get dysentary.

@@dreaueda1312 fr bro, like that room screams “every surface looks unhygienic” like WHY IS EVERY CABIN DESIGNED LIKE A PRISON CELL??

@@poopsie117 that phone holder… ☠️

@@charlessale409 frfr, actually insane ... think about the amount of dust and crumbs n shit that would never get cleaned out of it.

No one is funding long-distance Amtrak trains in a country 26 times the size of Japan. I’m not sure why they even bother selling these tickets. Air travel is king in the US.

Does any Japanese Shinkansen have sleeping accommodations? What? Shinkansens are too fast to need them? Well, America has an ever faster transit, it’s called an airliner.

But the PRICE! It's INSANE

@@computer_toucher CNBC covered that price issue.

poor railway service in usa.

Согласен,цена уж очень высока

Не дай боже провести ночь в Шикаго.....самоубица шо ли?!

Позвольте-ка а разве в японских поездах имеются спальные вагоны? В скоростных наверняка нет. Слышал я что у них там есть и обычные поезда, в том числе со спальными вагонами. Однако об этом мало информации в сети, да и не факт что всё что блестит - непременно золото (а всё что японское - непременно отменного качества). Что же касается купе, то хотелось бы знать сколько может стоить билет от Москвы до, скажем, Волгограда в персональное двухместное купе (которое не нужно делить с кем-либо посторонним) с туалетом-душевой внутри, и так чтобы проводник подходил по нажатию кнопки. Даже если такая услуга на РЖД существует и стоит номинально ниже $1000, подозреваю что с зарплатой среднего россиянина это не особо по карману.

@@abenm613 на этом канале показаны японские поезда со спальными вагонами. Что касается ржд, посмотрите сами, условный маршрут Москва-Кисловодск 14-20 тыс руб, это св полностью(если купить билет заранее), вы можете там ехать один и да проводник будет приходить по нажатию кнопки)) и фирменные поезда у нас выглядят в разы лучше и чище👍🏼

@@natashazima_ya, я не спорю что остальному миру есть чему поучиться у России в плане качества пассажирских поездов, причём именно традиционных а не всяких там скоростных как в Японии (кстати спасибо за ссылку на информацию о тамошних спальных поездах). Но это не означает в США поезда действительно настолько низкого качества как некоторые пишут. Я вполне себе доволен американскими поездами (в том числе и широкими сидячими креслами, в которых вполне комфортно ехать ночью по доступной цене), хоть, разумеется, хотелось бы чтобы они были ещё лучше, а главное - чтобы их было больше (а то ведь на такую огромную страну здесь их как-то маловато, мягко выражаясь). Однако, безусловно, ничто не может сравниться с поездами России и Беларуси (да и, наверное, Украины тоже), с купейными и плацкартными вагонами, со стаканами в подстаканниках и т.д. Этому, согласен, по-настоящему равных нет. А цены? 14-20 тыс.р. - это нынче приблизительно 200-300 USD. Неужели за такую цену можно полностью занять целое купе? Здорово если так. Другое дело - для многих ли россиян (особенно вне Москвы и Питера) это так уж дёшево?

After seeing a couple Amtrak videos and then the trains in Japan. Oh yikes for USA 😅😰😬

Thats actually the new Moynihan train hall which is now a part of the existing Penn Station across the street. They are currently renovating the old Penn Station section as well which houses the commuter trains for Long Island and New Jersey. Hopefully it will be improved from the old dingy station it had become.

Hey can you guess me who I am

I'm Japanese and dating a Swede. when I went to Sweden and took the rail it wasn't much better then USA's, neitther was UK's XD

@@Sakura_Matou Fair enough! But I always hear that AMTRAK is especially deplorable. Also, who can afford $1000 for a train ticket usually?

Would be nice to have a comparison. Used to seeing the gold standard Japanese trains on here.

yeah because Europe is ONE big country and all their trains are the same standard right???? Ignorance

@@Sakura_Matou I understand what you mean. I'm Swedish and I get jealous when I see how nice trains they have in Japan.😅

How about the trains in Mexico? For what I know, there are none. So, instead of bashing American trains in comparison to Japanese, how about bashing your own government for killing passenger trains two decades ago?

@@abenm613 Si hay uno... No, de hecho, no solo uno, sino que hay 3. El principal es uno llamado el Chepe que va desde Chihuahua hasta Sonora y es toda una experiencia. Los otros 2, están en el estado de Jalisco pero solo recorren los campos de Agave de ciertas empresas de Tequila. Ahora bien, hace un par de décadas había uno llamado el Regiomontano que iba desde Nuevo León hasta el antes llamado Distrito Federal (ahora Cuidad de México), tuve el gran privilegio de abordarlo, y hoy por hoy el mejor medio de transporte que he tenido en viajes largos. Lamentablemente este tren ya no existe. Actualmente se está construyendo el Tren Maya, para carga y pasajeros, que aparenta ser atrativo como turista, pero lastimosamente esta dañando el ecosistema de la Península de Yucatán. También se tenia proyectado un tren que vendría de unos de los estados del centro del País y pasaría por Nuevo León y llegaría hasta territorio de Texas (carga y pasajeros) pero desgraciadamente solo quedo en el tintero. Bueno esto es para que sepas más y no quede en un "tengo entendido" por parte tuya. Que más quisiera yo que el sistema ferroviario de pasajeros existiera de manera eficiente en mi País, pero no y no depende de mí. Que lastima que las opiniones ajenas te las tomes tan personal y te afecte a tu fragil suceptibilidad, pero ese ya es problema tuyo y te recuerdo que la libertad de expresión es permitida en tu nación como en la mia, y tan libre y valorada es que hasta es protegida por la Primera Enmienda de los Estados Unidos de América, que por lo que noto es donde radicas. ¡¡Sé feliz!!

Very bad railway service in highly developed country like US. Why?

@@realityground.4714 Railways in the US are primarily for freight instead of passengers. It’s unfortunate. I’m sure the expense to improve rail travel is a costly one. Especially considering the size of the USA.

@@melinda_coffee_nerd U r saying correct.

The video shows long distance diesel train travel which is logistically ridiculous and frankly shouldn’t even exist at this scale. Comparing Amtrak to all travel in Japan is nonsense, because Amtrak is not how 99% of people will ever travel here. That does not mean that all travel in the US is overly expensive or awful, that’s just not true.

@@Sogeking995 The only reason 99% of people don't consider long distance rail travel as a viable option here is _because_ it's so bad here. People do long distance rail in Japan all the time. It's not that it's unrealistic or "logistically ridiculous;" it's that _we do a terrible job of it._ We could argue about diesel vs electric (almost all of Japan is electrified), but what it really comes down to is reliable, comfortable, respectful service, which Amtrak doesn't have-and never has had. If you're not in a hurry, then long-distance (high-speed) rail is superior to air travel in every metric. The journey should be enjoyed as much as the destination.

@@HeyIFoundACamera I doubt that’s true. Most Americans have no idea what the state of Amtrak is, have not ever ridden and never will because a.) it is unreasonably expensive, and b.) it takes significantly longer to reach a destination than flying. The US is 26 times larger than Japan with its major cities vastly more spread out. Yes, there is a logistical reason why long-distance train travel is not as viable here. If Americans want rail service, they need to think of it in terms of regional rail that can take you to cities in neighboring states. NYC to Chicago is already pushing the limits of what feasibly makes sense in train travel vs. flying, both in terms of cost and time. It’s a similar distance of Sendai to Hiroshima, something no one would choose a train for if Shinkansen wasn’t an option and even then flying is cheaper and faster. The other alternative is to invest in high-speed technology beyond what Amtrak offers, but of course that is multiple steps down the road from where we are now with no dedicated passenger rail lines in most of the country. Rail service would be much nicer and cheaper if there were private companies competing for it as in Japan, and that would be happening if there was a market for it. Neither are true because of the reasons I mentioned above. There’s obviously a reason why so much more money and variety and quality is present in the air travel industry than train industry here, and vice versa in Japan.

@@HeyIFoundACamera You're buying the Japanese propaganda. The most popular vacation route in Japan is Tokyo to Sapporo (ignoring Okinawa). That's 10 hours by Shinkansen and requires a train change, and runs for about $211. If you fly, it's 1.5 hours, and $86. What do you think people do? Japanese find the train impractical even within their own country.