The Philippines actually established a railway system first than Japan unfortunately due to corrupt government and undiscipline citizen, add to the fact that there are lots of squatter, living along the railroad, it never improved.
A few years ago, the country , with the help of Japan built a new Railway system to ease the traffic in
Manila. Personally I have not used it since I don't live in the city.
I have never been on a train, till I got to Japan and it is the only train system I have used so far.
An interesting train i've been on lately, was the Black Ship Train going to Izu.
train
Unfortunately, taking pictures inside the train is not allowed
. I love what they did to the interior.