Train Simulating Shenanigans Live On With the 3DS in Japan

I would buy a train simulation title. I really enjoyed using the touch controls for Steel Diver, and can imagine a similar implementation for trains.

Does it have $1800 worth of DLC?

@FishieFish umm, no.

This looks awesome!!
I'm getting closer to importing a Japanese 3DS... just waiting for the 'inevitable' hardware refresh...

For those interested in Nagara, here's some info:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagaragawa_Railway_Etsumi-Nan_Line

Its in Gifu, which is a while away from me.

I'll stick to Trainz 2009 on PC. I haven't played that in a while though. Making your own rail line is hard, but fun.

Wonder if it lets you simulate the infamous Japanese "Grope Train"

(Real thing that actually exists and after its introduction stopped the problem overnight on real trains. The West could learn a great deal from the Japanese when it comes to that sort of thing)

Yawn, didn't take long for someone to bring something like that up now did it?

Even a quick bit of research would show that internet stories and real life are almost never the same thing, and often these stories about "crazy Japan" are hugely exaggerated.
And in either case, this train line in the game, which I provided a link to, takes place in a really rural area far north of Tokyo, two prefectures away.

i want it!

@Tsuchinoko I guarantee that is true. I didn't read about it on the internet. If you are in Tokyo you could go to it if you were so inclined.

I would buy this

@unransomsan Dude, I'm a Japanese citizen, I know way more about this than you. Like I just said, its overly exaggerated, I didn't say it was untrue. I thought it was a bit offensive that you take a post that is about a Japanese train sim and automatically you talk about train groping, even though (since you know so much about it) this game takes place really far away from Tokyo all the way in Gifu and has nothing to do with that.

And come on, the Tokyo women's trains are not called "grope trains", that's a bit much. Couldn't you just let an article about a game dealing with trains in Japan be just about trains?

@Tsuchinoko It just really surprised me. (Probably unreasonably). My cousin is married to a Japanese woman. (And lives there on and off). I have been as well so I try to understand.

I think a UK train sim would be more fun. You could use the microphone to tell the passengers that you have no idea when the signal will change, that there are leaves on the track or that someone has forgotten to mind the gap .... Or you could just not turn the game on when it snows, safe in the knowledge that loads of virtual passengers get stuck at home/work!

I loved Train Sims back in the day, but now I miss the physical feedback of acceleration and wheel slip.
But nevertheless, tried the demo the other day. It would help greatly If I understood the ingame prompts and the Japanese regulations.

Yes, currently waiting for a red signal to change to green so I can proceed.

Train Sim is good, but where is the Bus Sim? The last Japanese Bus Sim that I knew (Tokyo Bus Simulator 2 on PS2) was incredible, and it has the quality and strictness that cannot be found in Western Bus Simulators. Any Japanese Bus Sim coming?

I wish they would bring one of these to North America I've always wanted to try one

I love trains! Windy, I to would just love a train sim for the 3ds