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Working through the weekends and finally knocked a bunch of things off my To Do List:  

*the 12-week long Asahi Newspaper story (to be published from Jan-March) is finished📰! 

*the latest episode of Uncanny japan is recorded, edited, and dropping in less that an hour🎙️!

*attempted some speed drawing for the Youtube channel version of the UJ show (which Richard so graciously did ALL the work for except the actual drawing--TY🙏!). That's already up!   Not an artist, so nervous about that one 😅 #bekind

*have three short stories submitted to some of my favorite magazines ✒️!

*agent wrote to tell me he's eagerly awaiting my next book AND I had a middle-of-the-night epiphany on how to make it so much more fun (can't wait to start writing on it) 😄So before I start on the next batch of To Dos, I calling for a day trip! 

Today we're going to be riding this old lug. 

Through the mountains and valleys. 

Stopping on that little piece of land down there for a picnic. I made sandwiches! 

I just packed the binaural mics and plan to set them on an empty seat beside us (the train is usually mostly empty). So that means a nice looong stretch of rickety old slow train, Japanese announcements, atmosphere and wonderful charm. Patrons, otanoshimi ni~

Will try to get video as well. R has the decent camera (mine's very, very, very old).

XO, 

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Samantha Moreno

Oh my gosh! What train is this! Would love to go in the future!

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

I absolutely recommend it!! it's the Oigawa Railway. I really wanted to ride the steam locomotive (and I will because those sounds are super dreamy), but it only runs on weekends and part of the track got washed away in a typhoon a few years ago, so kind of complicated figuring out the schedule. Here's the English website. You can click to change to Japanese. I'll make a post about it for patrons, too, with more details on how to ride. https://daitetsu.jp/en/index.html

SuzyGen

Beautiful railway. The bridge contrasts so nicely with the water. Looking forward to hearing the soundscapes.

Curt Fukuda

Thanks for sharing the wonderful images of the Oigawa Railway! It looks like a wonderful ride. In May, my family and I got to ride the Kurobe Gorge train which has a similar feel to what I see in your photos ... although, the Kurobe Gorge train is smaller scale, more like a theme-ride train. The views of the gorge are breathtaking and the round trip is almost three hours.

Uncanny Japan -- Thersa Matsuura

Three hours! I just google image searched and it looks very similar. We even have that vermillion bridge. I think yours is bigger. It was lovely. One thing though. very old train and I didn't realize that when the train takes a corner the wheels squeal in a highly "pierces your inner being" way. Otherwise, nice!