dmustu Posted December 15, 2016 Share Posted December 15, 2016 Hello, visited Japan again a few weeks ago so thought i'd post some photo's. These are taken around Osaka and Kyoto, as we visited the new railway museum there. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted December 19, 2016 Author Share Posted December 19, 2016 A few more, from our journeys from Osaka - Tadanoumi - Tottori - Okayama. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted December 20, 2016 Share Posted December 20, 2016 Interesting to see some older units still in traffic. Cheers for posting Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted December 27, 2016 Author Share Posted December 27, 2016 Interesting to see some older units still in traffic. Cheers for posting Your Welcome. JR West and JR Shikoku in particular still run quite a lot of older trains. This next batch of pictures are from Okayama, on to our first time on Shikoku to Tokushima and back to Okayama on our journey to Tokyo. Next time we go, I'm hoping to visit Takamatsu to ride on the Kotoden railway company, as all its trains are second hand from all over Japan, with trains dating back to 1925 still in service. 14 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Finally got round to adding the last batch, all from the Tokyo area. 17 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted January 18, 2017 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 18, 2017 Great selection of pictures going in there. That bar isn't the one used in NHK's 'Japan Railway Journal' is it? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold chris p bacon Posted January 18, 2017 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 18, 2017 Excellent pics, the trams in the first post are a reminder of (part of) a childhood spent in Nagasaki, 10 yen a journey (600 to the £), money dropped into the tray and a salute from the white gloved driver.... gaijin.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Great selection of pictures going in there. That bar isn't the one used in NHK's 'Japan Railway Journal' is it? It is the bar used for Japan Rail Journal. Its called Bar Ginza Panorama Trains, about a 10 minute walk from Shinjuku east exit. They also have another branch in Shibuya, but we have not been to that one. The Blue Train cocktail is very tasty! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Excellent pics, the trams in the first post are a reminder of (part of) a childhood spent in Nagasaki, 10 yen a journey (600 to the £), money dropped into the tray and a salute from the white gloved driver.... gaijin.... Glad you like them. We didn't ride any trams on this trip, but have done on previous trips, and you still drop your fare in the box on your exit, and receive a a white gloved salute, but the fare is certainly more that 10 yen, and I doubt we'll ever see an exchange rate of 600 to the £! 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted January 18, 2017 Share Posted January 18, 2017 Timely photos , I shall be picking your brains for a trip this september... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted January 18, 2017 Author Share Posted January 18, 2017 Timely photos , I shall be picking your brains for a trip this september... No probs, just let me know. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 So what in a nutshell is the essential stuff to do in Japan? My wife and I are planning a trip for next April, and I won't be able to spend the whole trip doing train stuff... Is the Kyoto museum worth my while insisting on? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supaned Posted September 28, 2018 Share Posted September 28, 2018 So what in a nutshell is the essential stuff to do in Japan? My wife and I are planning a trip for next April, and I won't be able to spend the whole trip doing train stuff... Is the Kyoto museum worth my while insisting on? The museum was closed on the day I was in Kyoto , however , I did ride the Sagano Scenic Railway nearby , which was decent enough - at the one end of the line these is a small museum and a large HO scale model railway in the station building. We visited Tokyo , Osaka , Kyoto , Hiroshima & Toyama on our trip. Railway wise, we did the Oigawa Railway Narrow gauge line, the Wakayama Electric Railway (home of Nitama the Cat Stationmaster) , Sagano Scenic , and the Kurobe Gorge Railway , all of which were easily accessible by public transport. We also rode the trams in Osaka , Hiroshima & Toyama (which is prototype for the Kato Unitram model). Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted September 30, 2018 Author Share Posted September 30, 2018 So what in a nutshell is the essential stuff to do in Japan? My wife and I are planning a trip for next April, and I won't be able to spend the whole trip doing train stuff... Is the Kyoto museum worth my while insisting on? Depends on where your going and what you like to see/do. The Kyoto museum is good, worth a visit if your there, but my favorite of the JR museums is the SCMaglev Park in Nagoya. The JR East museum in Omiya has just been extended, so would be worth a visit if your unable to go to the Kyoto or Nagoya museums. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold tractionman Posted September 30, 2018 RMweb Gold Share Posted September 30, 2018 So what in a nutshell is the essential stuff to do in Japan? My wife and I are planning a trip for next April, and I won't be able to spend the whole trip doing train stuff... Is the Kyoto museum worth my while insisting on? A few pointers here http://www.rmweb.co.uk/community/index.php?/topic/49167-japanese-railways-some-recent-pictures/ Cheers, Keith Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
009 micro modeller Posted October 4, 2018 Share Posted October 4, 2018 Very interesting. Are the trams in the museum standard gauge or are they 3' 6" like the main lines? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dullsteamer Posted October 6, 2018 Share Posted October 6, 2018 (edited) The museum trams shown are standard gauge. They're former Kyoto Municipal Transport Bureau cars. Umekoji also has one of the narrow gauge Kyoto cars running on a short length of track in the park. Japan's first electric tramway was the private Kyoto Electric Railway, which opened in 1895 using 3'6" gauge. The municipality started building a standard gauge tramway in 1912, and took over the private company in 1918. They converted most of the lines to standard gauge, but the 6.6km route 10 from Kyoto station to Kitano remained narrow gauge until closure in 1961, worked by the original Brill cars like No.27. Others survive in various locations around Kyoto, as well as the operating car at Meiji Mura open air museum near Nagoya. All the best, Mark. Edited October 6, 2018 by dullsteamer 3 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted October 9, 2018 Share Posted October 9, 2018 Has anyone used any of JR East's Joyful Trains? Any idea how to get to such a thing arranged? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium dhjgreen Posted October 9, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 9, 2018 So what in a nutshell is the essential stuff to do in Japan? My wife and I are planning a trip for next April, and I won't be able to spend the whole trip doing train stuff... Is the Kyoto museum worth my while insisting on? If you are lucky it may be cherry blossom season when you are there. We went to Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo. Great cherry blossom in Osaka, the Imperial palace in Kyoyo is worth seeing as are the many temple gardens; busses are easy to use. We stayed near the palace in Kyoto and would catch a train to the main station for our evening meals, the food was excellent. Go green car on the Shinkansen (1st class) the seats are western sized. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
APOLLO Posted October 11, 2018 Share Posted October 11, 2018 I was looking through the (usually excellent) video list on the news site Al Jejeera last night and came across this gem. https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2015/08/rails-journey-japan-150818090224115.html A personal look at how the country's railways reveal so much about Japanese culture and the changes in society. A different sort of railway vid, very interesting. The Japanese are more rail crazy than us Brits !!!! Brit15 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium Claude_Dreyfus Posted October 11, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 11, 2018 Has anyone used any of JR East's Joyful Trains? Any idea how to get to such a thing arranged? I haven't, but you can book through the railway companies themselves. Attached is the link to JR East. https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/joyful/index.html?src=t_info I believe you can also use travel companies in Japan for Joyful trains, but to be honest, it is probably easier to book via the train operators. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium ColinK Posted October 11, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted October 11, 2018 There is an illustrated talk on Japaneese Railways on Monday evening at Carnforth station. Everyone welcome. Full details on Carnforth Station website. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmustu Posted November 3, 2018 Author Share Posted November 3, 2018 I was looking through the (usually excellent) video list on the news site Al Jejeera last night and came across this gem. https://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/aljazeeracorrespondent/2015/08/rails-journey-japan-150818090224115.html A personal look at how the country's railways reveal so much about Japanese culture and the changes in society. A different sort of railway vid, very interesting. The Japanese are more rail crazy than us Brits !!!! Brit15 The chap who presented that programme is the author of the travel book Japan By Rail. It's a worthwhile book to have for anyone planning a trip over there. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium boxbrownie Posted November 3, 2018 RMweb Premium Share Posted November 3, 2018 Brings back memories when Imused to work in Japan for a few months a year, but I always made time to visit Tam Tam shop in Tokyo, I took three large suitcases (stackable) with me on the trips of which only one had clothes in......and on the way home the other two had hundreds of N gauge stuff, mostly Kato but often other makes as well. Better then as the exchange rate was around 450 to the pound, it worked out that a full Kato 6 car EMU set cost about £35 I spent thousands....... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zomboid Posted January 2, 2019 Share Posted January 2, 2019 I haven't, but you can book through the railway companies themselves. Attached is the link to JR East. https://www.jreast.co.jp/e/joyful/index.html?src=t_info I believe you can also use travel companies in Japan for Joyful trains, but to be honest, it is probably easier to book via the train operators. Turns out plans can change - I've convinced the wife that we should do JR Kyushu's SL Hitoyashi, and then the Hisatsu/ kitto lines as an alternative to the Shinkansen between Kumamoto and Kagoshima. Just have to hope that it's running and reservations are available on our dates. Will I have to have the JR Pass operational in order to make a reservation, or would they take one on the basis that the pass will be used? 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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