About Trains
Trains drops you into a struggle to build the biggest rail network in Japan. You start with a tiny deck of weak cards. You trade money to grab stronger cards from a shared market. Each card helps you draw more cards, earn cash, or generate rail points for your routes. You spend those rail points to lay colored tracks across a map of real cities. Every placement brings you closer to claiming station slots and scoring points.
Each track segment costs rail points. Building on popular routes forces you to take waste cards that clutter your deck. Waste cards sap the quality of your draws and slow your progress. You connect cities to earn station rights. Stations give points and unlock extra actions. The game wraps up when stations fill, rails vanish, or supply piles run dry. You count your victory points based on stations, routes, and special cards.
The box includes two double-sided maps that shift the challenge between Tokyo and Osaka. Each play uses only a slice of the available cards. That lets each session feel different. You juggle deck-building with area control and map tactics at the same time. Expansions add more maps and novel cards to stretch your strategy even further. Every match tests your skill at drafting a strong deck and dominating the board.
