It takes too long to get there by train. Shinkansen is too expensive for daily commuting (for normal people). Two hours each way sleeping on a commuter train is

It takes too long to get there by train. Shinkansen is too expensive for daily commuting (for normal people). Two hours each way sleeping on a commuter train is about the limit of what people can tolerate. I love Tokyo and the rest of Japan. It's amazing, but if you put any other culture in Tokyo, it would be unlivable.