'Ruins'

[stevenh]

I'd just been searching for Onsens to travel to in my upcoming 3wks in Japan and found that the Thunderbird travels all the way through to Wakura-Onsen (I'd usually been in the 5 former cars and didn't really know where the other 3 went!)

 

Anyway, I then google'd this and found that there was a line that continued further called the 'Noto Line'. It seems beautiful up there, but from Anamizu there is a length of abandoned track. One line goes North to Wajima (the Nanao line, but is since truncated to Anamizu) and then there was a line East to Takojima.

 

I found all this out through Wikipedia (although a little hard to navigate...) but then found gold:

 

http://ats-n.sakura.ne.jp/material/ruins/index.html

 

Welcome to a single page showing a whole lot of 'Ruins' around Japan... most in remote areas and hard to reach, but well worth a visit if you happen to have time for day trips!

[Guest ___]

That's the sort of trip, I'd like to make in Japan. I'm in to that sorta thing and ghost towning of which Nihon has plenty of.

[bikkuri bahn]

I notice more than half of those ghost lines and stations listed are in Hokkaido.  After the privitization of JNR, there was a mass closing of marginal branch lines up here.  When I was living in Nemuro, E. Hokkaido, almost every week I passed by this non-touristy yet remarkably preserved station (Okuyukiusu) to get to one of my work sites.  Pity I didn't take pictures- I'll have to make a trip there sometime:

 

http://www.lococom.jp/article/A01/96/691/27856/606165/L/

[marknewton]

This site features abandoned railways throughout Japan

 

http://www.kysd.net/index.html

 

And this site features ruined buildings galore.

 

http://homepage3.nifty.com/ruinfan/ruintop.html

 

Cheers,

 

Mark.

[Guest ___]

I notice more than half of those ghost lines and stations listed are in Hokkaido.  After the privitization of JNR, there was a mass closing of marginal branch lines up here.  When I was living in Nemuro, E. Hokkaido, almost every week I passed by this non-touristy yet remarkably preserved station (Okuyukiusu) to get to one of my work sites.  Pity I didn't take pictures- I'll have to make a trip there sometime:

 

http://www.lococom.jp/article/A01/96/691/27856/606165/L/

 

Looks like I found another pace to add on the Hokkaido trip.