Most of the comments so far are about the temperature and the closeness to the sun, and, hey, I get it: those are both amazing to think about. But to me even more amazing is... 0.16% of the speed of light?? Yikes.
Pretty sure it's 0.064%, not sure why the article got it wrong, still impressive though
Still. ~200,000 m/s (= ~430,000 mph) is unfathomably fast.
It is, although I was still a little surprised it's on the order of a minute to go NYC to Tokyo at that speed. My intuition was it would be much less time.