点评:This is a general review of our train experience in Tokyo and Japan in general. We Shinkasen'ed it from Osaka USJ to Tokyo Disney Maihama station. We were late by 5 minutes, missed our scheduled Shinkasen and got on the next Shinkasen. My advice is to allow time for familiarising yourself with the different train systems as sometimes you have to queue to ask questions and need time to use google translate.
The ticket inspector was very good and arranged for us to sit together (we bought the most expensive tickets we could find) and we changed to the local line to get to Maihama.
After several days of Disney, we decided to train it to Tokyo from Maihama station. We had 5 people in our party so taxi was not an option and booking a large taxi is almost impossible. The train counter guy did not speak English but gave us a piece of paper that told us how to get to Asakusa as we wanted to visit the temple and surrounding area.
Unfortunately, we did not know there were several train companies operating within Tokyo. So whilst we followed the instructions on the paper, we bought tickets at the wrong ticketing area twice and had to queue up for a refund at the original place where we bought each set of tickets. This was very annoying as we had 5 ppl to get refunds for. Subsequently, we just asked each place we were about to buy tickets at to avoid buying tickets for the wrong line with the wrong train company. (Why cant a rich capitlalist guy just buy all the lines and streamline the system to make it truly efficient?) I mean all the people say how good the Tokyo rail system is but I beg to differ. The trains are frequent and all but the different train companies make ticketing a mess. In a civilised world, we would only need to input the target station into the computer screen and pay once instead of 3 or more separate times, once at each location. Also, it is ridiculous you can't buy the JR rail pass anywhere near the stations.
The amount of information at the platform for each of the train lines also differs. Eg some show the direction the train travels with a tiny arrow while others do not even have such information. This is essential information so you do not get on the train going in the opposite direction you want to go to when you do not know the final stop of the line you are on ie when you only know the next couple of stops!
翻译:这是对我们在东京和日本的火车体验的总体回顾。我们乘坐新干线从大阪USJ到东京迪士尼舞滨站。我们迟到了5分钟,错过了原定的新干线,然后换乘了下一趟新干线。我的建议是留出时间熟悉不同的火车系统,因为有时您必须排队提问并需要时间使用谷歌翻译。
检票员人很好,安排我们坐在一起(我们买了能找到的最贵的票),然后我们换乘本地线去舞滨。
在迪士尼玩了几天后,我们决定从舞滨站坐火车去东京。我们一行有 5 个人,所以不能选择出租车,而且预订大型出租车几乎是不可能的。火车柜台的人不会说英语,但给了我们一张纸,告诉我们如何去浅草,因为我们想参观寺庙和周边地区。
不幸的是,我们不知道东京境内有几家火车公司运营。因此,当我们按照纸上的说明操作时,我们两次在错误的售票地点买了票,并且不得不在我们原来购买每套票的地方排队退票。这非常烦人,因为我们有 5 人需要退款。随后我们就询问了每个要买票的地方,以免买错线路、买错火车公司的票。 (为什么一个富有的资本主义者不能购买所有线路并简化系统以使其真正高效?)我的意思是所有人都说东京铁路系统有多好,但我不敢苟同。火车班次频繁,除了不同的火车公司外,所有的火车票都让票务变得一团糟。在文明世界中,我们只需要在电脑屏幕上输入目标站并支付一次,而不是在每个地点支付 3 次或更多次。另外,可笑的是,车站附近的任何地方都买不到 JR 铁路通票。
每条列车线路的站台信息量也有所不同。例如,有些用小箭头显示火车行驶的方向,而另一些甚至没有这样的信息。这是重要的信息,这样当您不知道您所在线路的终点站时,即当您只知道接下来的几站时,您就不会上往您想去的相反方向的火车!