Compared to what has come before, this part of the movie is an oasis of calm and normal narrative. Her fellow passengers are translucent specters and her traveling companions include a tiny, mosquito-like bird, a chubby mouse-hamster creature formerly a very large baby and a masked demon named No-Face who has been 86'd from the bathhouse of the spirits for eating everybody in sight. We never see the train conductor's face, and by now we know enough to be grateful. The train runs on tracks that are partially submerged in water. Most of the way through Hayao Miyazaki's latest animated feature, which is being released in America under the title "Spirited Away" its Japanese title, more or less, is "Sen and the Mysterious Disappearance of Chihiro"a young girl takes a train journey.
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