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Kyoto Railway Museum
As our train approached Kyoto station this morning I spotted a steam train pulling a collection of open sided passenger carriages. Also at that moment Alex asked to return to the train museum at Nagoya to play with their ticket gate exhibit. I suggested that we change our plans and go to the Kyoto Railway… Read more
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SCMAGLEV and Railway Park
I think we’ve found Alex’s ultimate amusement ride: a ticket gate. As I’m on the ultimate railway journey around Japan it makes sense to visit a railway museum. Inside, apart from fascinating explanations of Shinkansen technology, its next generation magnetic levitation train, a massive working HO scale layout and various older locomotives and carriages, is… Read more