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Rail line history museum @ Shinbashi, Tokyo, Japan

   Several weeks ago, I found a history of rail line museum around Shinbashi station. I usually walk around that point on weekend. However, I walked 2nd floor at that point. And I did not know about a museum on 1st floor. Our weekend walking is changed from distance oriented to unknown load finding. We just enter a small street and then that small street connected new world.   Shinbashi is an important area for rail line in Japan. Because, Shinbashi started a history of japanese business rail line. The betting of business rail line started from shinbashi to yokohama at 1872. 9 trains on every day were operated at that time. It was needed 53 minutes for one way (it is needed 20 - 26 minutes, now). Average passengers were 4300 people per day. Bothe Terminal stations on that line required many functions, so both stations were not only passenger line station but also transportation base.   A function of main terminal of passenger station moved from Shinbashi station to Tokyo station 1914.

TokyoWalking : Tram @Arakawa-Line

End of last year, I went to cycling to Ikebukuro. Ikebukuro is one of the main city on Yamanote-line (loop line) It is north area of Tokyo (loop-line). Basically, most rail lines on mid-tokyo are as subway or elevated railway. So, it made my so surprising, when I saw it.  This is tram in tokyo. I did not know that tokyo also has a tram. Following photo is another tram station. I saw several tram on the railway. Most of them are painted with different line (maybe...) This tram is named Toden-Arakawa-Line. This line is for Waseda University. I could not take the tram, becase I rode my bicycle. However, I will take the tram on some day. Following river is River, Kanda. The river is used on some old japanese song.

2015 09 : Trip to Europa : Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Germany : Opening version

Last two week,we were in trip to North Europa and Germany from 21/09/2015 to 03/10/2015. We had many experience and got many cultural gap between europa and japan. So, I will write about them from next my post not only in english (here) but also in japanese (on another blog) Our trip overview is following. 21 Sept.           Narita (Japan) ----> Copenhagen (denmark) ------> Helsinki (Finland)   the day was only for moving from japan to north europa.  scandinavia airline. 22 Sept -23      Helsinki 23 Sept - 24     Helsinki  ---> Stockholm (Sweden)    We use Silija (  http://www.tallinksilja.com/en/web/int/book-a-cruise ) for for moving.    It is night cruise from 17:00 to 9:30. And we met with my friend at the morning. 24 Sept - 26    Stockholm 26 Seot           Stockholm ---> Copenhagen (Denmark)     scandinavia airline 26 Sep - 28     Copenhagen 28 Sept           Copenhagen ---> Hamburg (germany) ---> Frankfurt (germany)    We used rai