One of the best things about traveling by trains in Japan is the ease of use. It’s 11:25pm now — half an hour before our train bound for Osaka is scheduled to leave. We’ll leave the apartment in ten minutes and make the ten minute walk to the station. With ten minutes left, we’ll board the train, which will leave at exactly 11:55. No lines. No security check. Just walk onto the train and go. Who needs airplanes anyway?