Some daily trains to consider include the Shatabdi Express and the Taj Express between Delhi and Agra, which leave early and allow for a full day of sightseeing. The Pink Express between Delhi and Jaipur takes six hours and allows for about five hours of sightseeing before returning to Delhi. Another convenient Shatabdi Express connects Bombay and Delhi, departing in the late afternoon and arriving early in the morning. An overnight Rajdhani Express connects Delhi and Calcutta. Japan's rail system is divided into two entities, with East Japan Railway serving Tokyo, Narita Airport, and points northeast, and West Japan Railway serving the rest of the country, including Hiroshima, Kobe, Kyoto, Nagasaki, Osaka, and the island of Hokkaido.
Japanese trains run frequently and very much on time.
Although it costs almost as much as flying, it is in many ways more convenient, because train stations are more centrally located than airports. The first Australian railway site on the Web remains the first place to stop for info on and links to about everything that's train-related Down Under. There is hardly a place that cannot be reached by train in Europe, where train service is frequent and fast, and getting faster. They link up with the latest generation of Italy's tilting Pendolino trains, also called Eurostar Italia, which extend beyond Italy's borders with service from Turin to Lyon and, in a joint venture with Swiss Railways, from Milan to Geneva and Zurich. Germany's equally fast ICE trains connect Hamburg with Basel and Mannheim with Munich.