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| Early morning in Akabane |
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| I wasn't the only one thinking it was early... fortunately I was going against the traffic. |
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| Tochigi somewhere |
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| Kooriyama in Fukushima |
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| The Shinkansen line in the background. Somewhere near Sendai |
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| The trains get crowded around the major centres |
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| The train to Nyuko onsen |
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| Nyoko onsen - pretty, a lot of snow, but has seen better days. |
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| like this |
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| glad I'm not doing the shovelling there.. |
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| or there |
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| Rikuu Tou sen scenery |
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| Rikuu Tou line scenery. |
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| Not much grave visiting can be done there... the graves are barely sticking out of the snow. |
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| Rikuu sai line between Shinjo and Sakata |
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| Uetsu line from Sakata... not very many passengers. |
2 comments:
Respect and admiration! If I had to attempt this, with all these changes, in my very limited Japanese, I would end up in ... oh help ... probably North Korea.
What luggage did you have? Small suitcase? Backpack?
You underestimate yourself and JR Ru!
Every connection, except the first at Akabane was the terminal station. Jorudan.co.jp lets you search for seishun 18 routes (excludes trains with separate express fares and private lines). It doesn't do it in English, unfortunately, but it does go through translation sites satisfactorily.
There is a caveat that you need to be awake at the terminal station as the changes can be tight.
I had a small backpack and a trolley bag mostly of omiyage... I left the trolley bag up there and came back with the backpack only.
It's very cheap, and very easy :)
The ideal world would be going on the Shinkansen as far as Fukushima and then using local lines - the Utsunomiya sen in particular has dreary scenery.
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