 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 apartment's window the city's train station. Twice a day, an Amtrak train stopped there going east to west or west to east. I knew what time the scheduled time of those trains was. A train pulling in an hour or two late wasn't uncommon.