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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most other countries actually have decent public transportation so why drive? [/quote]

Not everywhere.  Have you tried to get to the English countryside? Or how about a beautiful location like Kamicochi in the Japanese Alps?  To get to Kamikochi, you have to get up extremely early in the morning to travel to a remote bus hub, the bus hub. Then you have to wait until the bus leaves. Then you have to make sure you're back in time to get on the bus and leave. Accomodations can be sparse and you have to blow hours and hours and hours on transport just to get to and from.  Same with an UNESCO site like Shirakawa-go. You'd have to spend 3 hours taking the train, then blow another 90 minutes traveling by bus to see it. Then you'd have to leave when the bus wants to, not on your own time. Huge wastes of time.

I mean sure, if all you ever want to see when you travel are major cities, take the train.  But you miss out on sooooo much actual culture of daily and average citizens when you don't go to harder to access areas, smaller cities, and towns.  Best Japanese food in my life was driving through some small remote town in the Japanese Alps where they spoke zero English and we were probably the only gaijin they saw for weeks.  They fed us a meal consisting of all sorts of crazy mushrooms, herbs, veggies and other plants they foraged around them in the local woods.  You'd never get to it by bus or train and only using the Internet to screen for places to eat.  [/quote]

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