I recorded an episode of this last week and have seen what looks like a different episode on this Sunday although it won't offer me the series link (on Sky +) so I'm not 100% sure. It looks at Japanese railways a bit like Michael Portillo has done with UK and continental railways only the Michael Portillo of the episode I saw is called Katsura Sunshine (http://katsurasunshine.com/) who is a Canadian born storytelling comedian (allegedly) who now resides in Japan. There are a couple of clips of I believe what is Japan's largest model railway although I can't remember what it is/was called.
The next episode is on channel number 507 NHK World HD at 12:10am, 6:10am, 12:10pm and 6:10pm this Sunday (all the same episode).
I've just found a link (http://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/special/train_cruise.html) which tells you a bit about the series.
Quote from: Trainfish on January 03, 2015, 01:33:13 AM. It looks at Japanese railways a bit like Michael Portillo has done with UK and continental railways only the Michael Portillo of the episode I saw is called Katsura Sunshine (http://katsurasunshine.com/) who is a Canadian born storytelling comedian (allegedly) who now resides in Japan.
Sounds plausible enough. Only the other evening I was watching a programme featurine a Japanese-speaking person of very African origin filmed hitchhiking through Spain.
Or put it another way - if you're photogenic with "media presence" and can speak fluent Japanese, a media career here is a viable option.
I've vaguely heard about the series but never seen it.
There's a "filler" programme here called "See the World by Train (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/See_the_World_by_Train)" which is on regularly featuring foreign trains which is always nice to see. It's only about 5 minutes but it's a different stage of the same journey every day.
I've just watched the second episode which has a different presenter, Christelle Ciari (on the left) (https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B32Ukh-CAAE1jvi.jpg), who is much more pleasing to the eye than Sunshine in the first episode but she gets very excited about the smallest of things. Ahem. Although still on a train journey there's not so much information regarding the actual trains.