Japanese Train Etiquette: Trodas in the Hoon Wagon

Japanese trains are super pleasant. A bit pricey but if you’re there as a tourist you can buy a 7 day pass that can get you pretty much anywhere in the country within hours.  The rail system is extensive and efficient and there are rarely ever delays.  Add in the fact each train has multiple Hoon Wagons and Troda vendors and you have yourselves an unbeatable experience. If NJ transit was half as good as JR Rail, Frankie Midnight would still be toiling away in obscurity as he’d have nothing to complain about.

As for those hoon holsters you saw people puffing on, turns out they are this new brand of smokeless “heat-not-burn” cigarettes called iQOS that aren’t even available in the US yet. Looks like the birthplace of Hoons is no longer the leader in Hoon-Tech. I knew this day would come.

Let me be clear, this is not a vape. It uses real tobacco but instead of burning it to produce smoke and tar, it heats it to produce tobacco-flavored vapor. There’s pretty much zero evidence that it’s actually less harmful than cigarettes so I wouldn’t rush to find these things on the black market just yet. Pretty sure the only reason it’s selling like hotcakes in Japan right now is because it looks sexy AF and doesn’t make your clothes smell as much.