 I've anyone who's ever taken a train in Europe knows that generally speaking, they're fast, clean and on time. But European train companies have nothing on their counterparts in Japan. Listen to this from America's number one travel radio show. This is your arm world travel minute. I'm Rudy Maxa here in St. Paul, Minnesota, where I live. I used to overlook from my fifth floor apartments window the city's train station twice a day. An Amtrak train stopped there going east to west or west to east.