Train: Lithuanian Railways 878Route: Kaunas Railway Station to Vilnius Railway Station Time: 8:10- 9:49Duration: 1h39min Seat& Class: Coach 1, Seat 11 (1st Class) The price of commodities in Lithuania is relatively cheap in the Euro currency area. For example, the second class from Kaunas to Vilnius costs only 3.6 Euro (the same for vice versa); you…

Train: Limited Express Marine Express Odoriko 76 (East Japan Railway)Route: Atami to TokyoTime: 17:57- 19:20Duration: 1h23min (105km)Seat& Class: Coach 5, Seat 11D (Ordinary Reserved Car) The limited Express ‘Marine Express Odoriko’ is the all-reserved train. Its name ‘Odoriko’ comes from the literature ‘Izu no Odoriko (The Dancing Girl of Izu)’ by Yasunari Kawabata, who received…

Train: Ltd Express Romance Car 23 (Odakyu Railway)Route: Shinjuku to OdawaraTime: 12:00- 13:14Duration: 1h14min (83km)Seat& Class: Coach 1, Seat 1A (Front Observation Deck Seat) There are several ways to go to Odawara from Shinjuku or Tokyo Metropolitan area: The Shinkansen (Japan Railway), the local trains (Japan Railway), the Romance Car (Odakyu Railway), the local trains…

Train: Limited Express Kamui 28 (Hokkaido Japan Railway)Route: Asahikawa to SapporoTime: 14:30- 15:55Duration: 1h25min (137km)Seat& Class: Coach 4, Seat 4A (Reserved U Seat, Ordinary Car) Between Asahikawa and Sapporo stations, four kinds of limited express trains are operated: Kamui, Lilac, Okhotsk (two direct services from Abashiri/ East) and Soya (one direct service from Wakkanai/ North)….

Train: Rapid Airport 162 (Hokkaido Japan Railway)Route: Sapporo to New Chitose Airport (CTS)Time: 16:20- 16:57Duration: 37min (47km)Seat& Class: Coach 4, Seat 10A (Reserved U Seat, Ordinary Car) Hokkaido is the furthest north of Japan. This Rapid Airport Train connects its central city, Sapporo, and its main gateway, New Chitose International Airport. It takes about 40 minutes…

When I was staying in Vienna, I travelled Budapest for a few days. Although ÖBB, Austrian National Railways, operates direct trains hourly from Budapest East Railway Station (Budapest Keleti) to Vienna Central Railway Station (Wien Hauptbahnhof), I chose to enjoy different railway services: MÁV/ Hungarian National Railways and ÖBB/ Austrian National Railways. This is my…

When I was staying in Vienna, I travelled Budapest for a few days. Although ÖBB, Austrian National Railways, operates direct trains hourly from Budapest East Railway Station (Budapest Keleti) to Vienna Central Railway Station (Wien Hauptbahnhof), I chose to enjoy different railway services: MÁV/ Hungarian National Railways and ÖBB/ Austrian National Railways. This is my…

Train: Airport Express 818Route: Kiev Main Railway Station (Kyiv-Pasazhyrskyi) to Kiev Boryspil AirportTime: 7:00- 7:44Duration: 44min Seat& Class: Non-reserved (2nd Class) I was about to depart so early the next morning that I decided to buy the ticket to Boryspil Airport the day before. I knew that the bus service to the airport is the major…

There are three classes in Thalys service: Premium (1st class with catering), Comfort (1st class without catering) and Standard (2nd class). There are some more differences in seat configuration, Wi-Fi, cancellation policy and so on according to the travel classes, so I recommend you to have a look at their website before purchase (find ‘Info&…

Train: Intercity (IC891)Route: Pristina to Skopje (one change)Time: 7:10- 9:52Duration: 2h42min Seat& Class: Non-reserved (2nd Class) Pristina Railway Station (Kosovo) It takes about 20 minutes on foot from the city centre (the bus terminal is closer to the city, five minutes walk from the railway station). If you come here for the first time, you…