If you’ve played any of the previous Japanese Rail Sim games, you’ll notice a few fundamental changes. But as the title of Japanese Rail Sim 3D Travel of Steam reveals, the developer’s latest game puts players in charge of the JNR Class C11, a coal-consuming colossus which saw widespread use during the 1930s and ‘40s. previous efforts have all concentrated on the former, allowing you to serve as conductor on lines through the Kanto countryside, Gifu’s suburbs, Okinawa, or Kyoto. While most of us are familiar with Japan’s densha, or electric train, there’s also ressha, (affectionally referred to as “SL” for Steam Locomotive). Evidence of train-mania can even be parsed from the language, where terms exist to describe details like people who enjoy listening to train operators’ radio messages (jushin-tetsu), or even anthropologists ( Tetsugaku-tetsu) who study what older trains say about society. Of course, there’s no less than twenty-five different train museums scattered across the country, as well as a countless number of preserved locomotives in parks, squares, and rail station yards. Of course, there’s also Tokyo’s sprawling network of subways, known for their efficiency and punctuality, where even a five-minute delay is enough to elicit a certificate for your boss and an apology from the conductor. Most famously, there’s the Shinkansen, a high-speed express service that has shuttled 5.6 billion commuters between Tokyo and Osaka since its inception in 1964. Japan’s affinity for trains is well known.
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