Kamome: JR Kyushu’s Scarlet Lady
JR Kyushu will be introducing a new Shinkansen service come September, 2022. I recently got to visit the Scarlet Lady before her grand debut.
My Trip to Kashii-Kaen: Fukuoka’s Defunct Theme Park
Fukuoka’s Kashii-Kaen Theme Park closed its gates on December 30, 2021. I recently had an opportunity to visit the park before its closure.
Trains! My Trip to The Railway Museum in Saitama (and to Marunouchi)
Sunday, March 11 marks the seventh anniversary of the Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami, a magnitude 9.1 earthquake that struck off the coast of Japan’s Tohoku region, creating a tsunami (harbor wave) that damaged the Fukushima-Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, resulting in the worst nuclear disaster since Chernobyl. Gee, that’s a great way to start off a…