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Japan's Second Largest Lake on the Joban Line
EMU JR East E531 series arrives at Tomobe Station on the Joban LineKasumigaura is the second largest lake in Japan. It is located in Ibaraki Prefecture, some 70 km northeast of Tokyo. Area of the lake...
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Night View of Himeji City: Castle and Station
DMU JR West KiHa127 series stands at Himeji Station on the Kishin Line Himeji is the second largest city in Hyogo Prefecture, some 640 km west of Tokyo. It is well known as a heavy industrial city, but...
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Summer Scenery of Fukushima Prefecture
EMU Fukushima Kotsu 7000 series arrives at Fukushima Station on the Iizaka Line The hot summer still continues in the Tokyo metropolitan area. According to the weather report, the daytime maximum...
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Tsudoi: Leisure Train on the Toba-Shima Line
EMU Kintetsu 2013 series, Tsudoi, passes through Kaminogou Station Along with luxury limited express trains, Kintetsu also focuses on leisure trains for young families. The EMU 2013 series, called...
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Old Post Town on the Aizu Line
DMU Aizu Railway AT-700 series leaves Tou-no-hetsuri Station After our visit to the vast sunflower field in San-no-kura Highland, we headed to Oouchjuku in Fukushima Prefecture. Oouchijuku is a small...
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2015 "Sunrise" Summer in Himeji Station
EMU JR West 285 series, sleeper train, "Sunrise Izumo No.92", stands at Himeji Station"Obon" is a Buddhist festival to recognize ancestral spirits. The souls of the dead are believed to return to their...
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Expert Climber in Kobe City
Set 1122F of the EMU Shintetsu 1100 series arrives at Maruyama Station Kobe is the main city of Hyogo Prefecture, some 600 km west of Tokyo. The population in this city stands at 1.54 million, which is...
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Scenic Falls on the Kintetsu Line
EMU Kintetsu 30000 series, "Vista-Ex", passes through Akameguchi StationI can't believe that it is September already. Time really flies. Before introducing the topics of this month, I would like to...
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Count Down to the Last Run: The 381 Stork
EMU JR West 381 series, limited express "Kounotori (stork)" stands at Osaka Station.On August 21st, JR West made a press release announcing that the EMU 381 series will be retired from Kansai District...
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Indonesian Railway Update: Ex-Nambu Line Train
Test run of the ex-Nambu Line train, EMU 205 series (12-car), Jakarta, Indonesia(Photo: Faris Fadhli)Following the ex-Yokohama Line trains, ex-Nambu Line trains arrived at Jakarta one after another. As...
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Preserved Electric Car and Lotus Field
Electric car, Kuriden M153 of the M15 series, is preserved in ex-Wakayanagi Station yard. Railway business in Japan is by no means easy. Specifically, local railway companies in the countryside are in...
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Fujikawa: Trans-Mountain Express in Chubu District
EMU JR Central 373 series, limited express "Fujikawa", travels on the Tokaido Main Line Chubu is the central district of Japan. It consists of nine prefectures including Shizuoka and Yamanashi, and is...
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Local Heroine in Shizuoka City
Set 1011F of the EMU Shizutetsu 1000 series, "Chibi Maruko-chan" poster train Shizuoka Railway (Shizutetsu) is a small local company in Shizuoka City, some 180 km west of Tokyo. In addition to the...
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Gypsy Rose on the Chuo Line
EMU JR East 211 series stands at Kami-Suwa Station on the Chuo LineIt is early autumn in Japan. Although it is still hot in Tokyo, the weather has become gradually cooler. I visited the countryside to...
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Looking down into Hell at Nokogiriyama
Gondola number 1, Kamome (seagull), Nokoriyama Ropeway (aerial tramway) Nokogiriyama (Mt. Saw) is a small mountain in Boso Peninsula, Chiba Prefecture, about 110 km southeast of Tokyo. As its name...
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Alien Trains on the Tozai Line
EMU JR East 231-800 seres stands at Urayasu Station on the Tokyo Metro Tozai LineI am going to show you the commuter trains in Tokyo for the first time in a very long while.The Tokyo Metro Tozai Line...
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Large Straw Sandals on the Yokohama Municipal Subway
EMU Yokohama Municipal Subway 3000S series stands at Totsuka Station Tokaido is the main trunk railway route in Japan. Connecting Tokyo, the capital city of Japan, and Kobe, the old port city in Hyogo...
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Sanyo Main Line: Backbone of Japanese Railways
DMU Chizu Express Railway HOT7000 series travels on the JR West Sanyo Main Line Along with the Tokaido Main Line, the Sanyo Main Line is a backbone of the Japanese Railways. Connecting Kobe and Moji,...
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Clematis Hill on the Tokaido Main Line
EMU JR Central 211 series travels on the Tokaido Main LineIt was a beautiful autumn weekend. I visited a garden, named Clematis Hill, near Mt. Fuji in Shizuoka Prefecture, some 120 km west of Tokyo. It...
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The 8900 Series: New Model on the Toei Arakawa Line
Electric car, Toei 8900 series stands at Asukayama Stop on the Arakawa LineOn September 18, the Transportation Bureau of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government (Toei) launched a new model of their electric...
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