Thursday, April 2, 2015

Tokyo -> Sendai

This time I bought the Seishin 18 Kippu ticket (all you ride on Non Shinkansen JR rail, this is available three times a year) this time the final destination will be Sapporo, Hokkaido. Last time I bought this ticket it was New Years just to get out of Tokyo for a couple of days but I didn't go very far with it. 

We left early in the morning about 5am to ensure that we would arrive in Fukushima by lunch time. Today's main itinerary is the fox village near Zao mountain. I just learned about this place and rabbit village (near Hiroshima) this time around, I was only aware of the island with an abundance of cats (which we will hopefully get to visit) 

Let's see if we can manage this part of the journey without coming across any hiccups. 
Always make sure to hop off before the train starts to reverse. "Do what the Japanese do...?" luckily we noticed it quickly and it was only one stop. Just a quick track jump, back en route to find out we have already finished half of the train journey. So far it has been fairly painless with the sun out warming the interior of the train-cars as we passed large stand alone houses. Now it is really feeling like we have left metropolitan area. 

So many transfers I think we have done at least half a dozen today and so do  many more to come. 
The best part of this long train ride is the fact that I got to stare out of the window where mountains cascaded in the background. I really love riding trains sometimes, it kind of beats being a runaround tourist fighting endless lineups and large noisy crowds. Left alone with all your thoughts, a serene pastime of a wandering traveler. 

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