There are few things that unite all of us across this great land of Australia: our never-ending political drama, our confusion at how Americans don’t get Vegemite (You’re not meant to eat it by the spoonful!), and how every single town and city has horrible public transport.
It’s worse when you go to another country only to see that despite everything else, they seem to have their public transport in order.
Cue Tokyo’s rail network, who have found time out from running one of the most efficient transport networks in the world, to deck one of their trains out as an ode to Pokemon’s Kanto region.
Yes, if you’re in Japan right now, you can literally ride a Pokemon (hype) Train.
omg i’m riding the special pokemon train pic.twitter.com/0iHFTUYch7
— Andrew Goldfarb (@garfep) August 26, 2018
Japan has a beautiful Pokémon train, meanwhile the MTA only gives us extensive delays and subways cars with broken ACs ? pic.twitter.com/AJ5fZVnOeX
— Mario (@mtehuitz) August 22, 2018
The train carriages are all part of a promotion for the upcoming Nintendo Switch games “Pokemon: Let’s Go Pikachu” and “Pokemon: Let’s Go Eevee”, and are full of tiny details and odes to the region where the first Pokemon game was set, including Pokemon images on the windows and flooring that resembling the iconic Pokemon top-down map.
「歩きながらのゲームはご遠慮ください」ってアナウンスしている銀座線の車内はゲームの世界でした。 #ポケモン #銀座線 pic.twitter.com/fSEugoAONI
— 飯島邦夫 (@asakusakumasan) August 21, 2018
Managed to get on a Pokémon train on the way back from a meeting pic.twitter.com/dRcm0FbeH8
— Maia? (@Maia_dewolf) August 22, 2018
The train carriages can be found on Tokyo’s Marunouchi and Ginza lines, and are according to the official Pokemon website (link in Japanese) for a limited time.
In the meantime, we’ll just be finding prices for the next flights to Tokyo, stat.