I've had the pleasure of riding quite a few Japanese trains while visiting in 2014 and 2016. I rode the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Kyoto, including stopping once at Atami (I hope they are able to recover from the recent landslide disaster, it was so sad as Atami is a beautiful city). I also rode Kyoto's metro, including the double decker cars, and the Tokyo subway as well as some private railways. A highlight was defiantly seeing some of the Odakyu Railways 7000 series Romance Car still in service (they are retired now), they are a very distinctive classic streamlined EMU. Next time I manage to visit Japan I really want to visit the new railway museum in Umekoji, Kyoto (it started out as a massive roundhouse full of steam locomotives, and then got even bigger), which I have missed the last two times I have gone thanks to it being on the opposite side of the city from the hostel we stayed at. There's also a Meji Museum, that recreates Japan from 1867-1912, that has some of the oldest operating steam locomotives in Japan, one American and one British built that I'd love to see.
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