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| Kitakami line |
The Rikuu tou sen, which runs parallel to it south of here is also magnificent. This is the primary reason I keep using seishun 18 enthusiastically. Infinitely more interesting than the shinkansen line. The services are relatively infrequent (the timetable below is the timetable from Kitakami to Yokote), so it needs planning. But the local lines of Tohoku that are far from the Shinkansen lines, are an under-discovered highlight of Japan.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitakami_Line
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I love the mountain scenery, and I could easily live there ... if 1) winter lasted only two months and 2) Amazon could delivery daily. :)
PS: Your videos are the perfect distraction. I should finish this aaargh! manual, but I keep finding other interesting things to do ...
Caveat 2 is no problem - MIL has her own takyubin labels printed and kuroneko just come and pick them up!
As for 1 - forget it - 4 months minimum.
The little local lines are so charmingly rustic. I am planning to take the Nairiku line again next time I go up (very local line from Kakunodate to Takanosu - a private line that JR sold off). It's not on the seishun 18, but when I caught it before it was April, as you say not the pick of times for the area. Am also keen on the Ban'etsu sens and then the lines to the Pacific Coast.
Bring on the summer!
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