Originally Posted by L0stMind

My wife is one of those people who gets motion sickness very easily. When we go to Japan, we buy a rail pass and take the train for all our trips! It's so smooth, you can barely even tell it's in operation. My wife was even able to sleep on the trains.

Just make sure, if you are a non smoker, to get on a non smoking car. Each train has several cars, some smoking and some non smoking. Our first train ride was on a smoking one and it was pretty disgusting. After that we wised up.

The rail pass is a great idea if you are planning on traveling much by train. It's a huge savings.