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I went to Kanto Region last Saturday by Local Trains

A ticket for high-speed railways “Shin-kansen” is expensive. Plus, Jo’etsu shinkansen runs through so many tunnels, you cannot enjoy the view from train window in mountainous area. So, I didn’t use a high-speed railway, but got on a local trains to go to Kanto Region on Saturday.

This is the town where LQ laoshi was born fifty-some years ago.

Needed to transfer to another train at Nagaoka.

View from the train window, it’s under dark clouds.

It’s still under dark clouds, because the train was still in Niigata Prefecture.

The train from Nagaoka brought me to “Minakami” in Gumma Prefecture.

Station Building of Minakami

The sky was bule in Gumma, it’s different from Niigata.

I’m back. My hometown in Rural Region is much better than Tokyo.

On the way back, the high-speed train “Shin-kansen” was so crowded with passengers. I had to be standing at the end section of a train car until the trains got to Takasaki where is a kind of mid-point between Tokyo and Niigata.

When the trains departed Takasaki, I got a non-reserved seat.

Finally I got to my hometown in Niigata Plain. Now I’m going to upload this post from the living room of my house.

My Eyes can see Snow on the Mountain. But it is not clear on Photo

Goldenrod

Japanese pampas grass

Ducks on the water

A Shrine in a Village

Persimmons on a tree

When I was a kid a half century ago, this was a timber bridge. Its width was so narrow that only a small vehicle could cross.

I could see snow on Mountain Iide(飯豊山地) with my eyes, but it was not clear on a photo. I have processed the above photo much.

Two Chinese Restaurants have gone out of Business

I got on a bus in front of JR Niigata Station.

I went to the old downtown area of Niigata today. I got an influenza vaccination on my shoulder in a small clinic there. Since it’s the “old” downtown, anything there is going down. I think the reason of declining comes from multiple factors; Japan’s aging society, spreading of commercial districts from city center to surrounding area due to motorization, the long economic downturn of Japan aka “lost thirty years”, and so on.

Old Downtown of Niigata, a northern city in Japan

There used to be three Chinese restaurants in that district. I mean that “Chinese Restaurant” is of serving Chinese food cooked by Chinese people. Having visited there today, I got to know that two of three such restaurants had been closed and taken place by another shops. One of the three, only “鵬龍” survives.

萬福園 was replaced by a coin laundry

騰翔飯店 was replaced by an Italian Food Restaurant

鵬龍は営業していました。
広東麺(1,050JPY) in “鵬龍”

After the flu shot, I took my lunch in “鵬龍”. 広東麺 was hot, so it took a time for me to eat. And then I got on a bus to JR Niigata Station. I just wanted to go home soon. Getting off a local train, I bought a small flower bundle in my village in order to offer to the altar of my deceased father.

Flowers I bought by 650JPY