My favorite railroad scenery -2-

My favorite railroad scenery
-2-


One day in August and I were in Hokkaidou. I had taken train which goes to "Nemuro". "Nemuro Line" is running Takikawa station to Nemuro station. However, it is touch called the local line after passing the Kushiro station. Neither the Sapporo limited-express, nor express goes up to Nemuro. In two round trips, a rapid train is only running for the present.

if an Kyu(old)-Kushiro-gawa river is crossed from the Kushiro station, a vast water meadow is visible to the left. Kushiro is called misty town. It seems that fog will interrupt a field of view if it comes to this neighborhood.

When passing through the station "Monshizu", it is with "Akkeshi bay" and "Akkeshi lake" are visible to the right. If a bridge is crossed, Kokutaiji Buddhist temple will be followed. When "Itoizawa" station was passed, the train stopped suddenly. A station is not necessarily here and there is necessarily no exchange (a train comrade crosses each other in the place called "Signal Place" in the single-track section).

"What happend?" If I consider so, a conductor will come to in the car and will shout, "’O’¸(Tanchou) is in the swamp of the you right!" in big voice. What and this train stopped, in order to show "Tanchou".

This is an error although "Tanchou Tsuru(crane)" may be called. Since "Tanchou" means a "Tsuru(crane)". Since "’O(Tan)" are the meanings "Red", and "’¸(Chou)" are the meanings "Top of head", "’O’¸(Tanchou)" serves as the meaning "the crane with the red head".

If there is no having seen Tanchou, please turn the card of 1000yen over. There, it is the photograph of the Tanchou of a pair. Now which is a male? Which is a female? The direction which looks graceful in fact is in a female.

Moreover, is it companion mind that white omission of ellipse is right in the middle? Seemingly, this means the egg of a Tanchou(some which meant egg of 10,000yen also on the card are right in the middle).

A train advances the village of such Tanchou. The water meadow has spread from "Hamanaka" station to "Kiritappu". Tofutsu cape with a strange rock or a cliff also becomes invisible from time to time. When passing the "Higashi- Nemuro" station in Japan that it is an east end most, a residential section is bypassed and it is arrival at terminal-point "Nemuro".

The bus of "Nosappu cape" going had stopped at the station from which it got down, into misty...

-2-
Written By marumi 1999.