But the basic experience is kind of similar--you walk into this special room, and when you walk out, you're somewhere else.
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...they don't get to relax yet, they still have to navigate and pay attention to *getting there* for however long the journey is.
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With the train, with the elevator, with the transporter room...you just have to get to the nearest station, and the rest is taken care of.
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It's this enchanting feeling; this compression of space and time which fascinates me more than anything else about trains.
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The feeling, as a child, of being able to walk into Tsurukawa Station and walk out anywhere on the Odakyu Line.
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The knowledge that with just one transfer, I could be anywhere in Tokyo. Two transfers; anywhere in Japan. Three; the world (via Narita).
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Standing on the platform at Tsurukawa, with the sensation that I already was anywhere that I could want to go--that is my Perfect Speedpic.twitter.com/fow5fPUs6Z
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(put this on medium, perhaps?)
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