タグ: shinkansen

I went to Kanto region three days ago. I came back Niigata today.

I wanted to get on local trains to go to Kanto region. Because using local trains costs only a half of bullet trains (Shinkan-sen). But influenza is now prevailing these days. If I got on local trains for many hours, it could increase the chance to be exposed to flu virus. Perhaps I may transmit influenza to my mother after I get back to my house. This is the reason why I got on Shinkansen to go to Kanto Region near Tokyo.

Tickets of Shinkansen are expensive. In order to save money, I usually get on a car for non-reserved seats. Such a non-reserved seats are on the several cars on Tokyo side. Of those non-reserved cars, I like to get on the top car.

Since the Jo’etsu Shinkansen runs thorough snowy areas, there are water sprinklers all along the railways in Niigata area. By melting snow on the rails by water, Shinkansen doesn’t get delayed even in winter.

This time of year, almost of the time the sky is cloudy and dark in Niigata side.

While Niigata is under dark clouds, people in Kanto region enjoy clear sky.

And I saw Mountain Fuji through the window in the following morning.

Yesterday, I went to Kanto region (But I am already back in Niigata)

I got on a local train from my village, and got off at Niigata.

Niigata is the starting station of Jo’etsu Shinkansen (High-speed trains).

I saw the mountain whose height is 1293 meters. I was born 50-some years ago at the town near that mountain.

I don’t know the name of the mountain.

I got off the shinkansen.

It’s an urban city in Kanto Region. It looks very different from my village.

The Sky is Dark in November. I was just staying Home

These days, the number of page view of this blog is going down. I think it’s because I have been writing a post that is not so interesting. As for today, the weather was not so good, sometimes rainy, so I have been inside all day. That means I couldn’t take any interesting photos outside.

But I guess tomorrow will be a different one, because my mother is going to my sister’s home which is located in near Tokyo. Since my mother cannot get on a train of the high-speed railway “Shinkansen” herself, I will take her to the platform of the JR Niigata station tomorrow morning. Now I am thinking about doing something in Niigata after I send off my mother to Tokyo region. I will take some digital photos in Niigata, and may be able to upload them here, probably.

I hope that tomorrow would be “a respite” for me.

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.