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   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 ...

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.

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...