bikkuri bahn Posted January 19, 2012 Share Posted January 19, 2012 Heads up for members in Japan- on NHK (Sogo) right now is the Bura Tamori program, they will be visiting the JR research center in Kokubunji later in the program. May be worth a look. 1 Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted January 19, 2012 Author Share Posted January 19, 2012 The visit to the railway research center will be broadcast in next week's program- from the preview, it looks to be a good segment, including the running of a hybrid streetcar. Tonight's program ended with Tamori visiting a combination sweets shop/model railway shop in Kokubunji, called Shigematsu. There seems to be a website featuring this shop, but right now I can't access it, probably people who saw it on the program are overloading the server. The proprietor had an N scale layout in his basement. Link to comment
miyakoji Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Bikkuri, do you know if JR Souken has tours of this facility? That would be awesome. Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 I think public visits are restricted to the annual open day called the Heibei Matsuri (held at the beginning of Oct.) Website: http://www.rtri.or.jp/eng/index.html Link to comment
bikkuri bahn Posted January 26, 2012 Author Share Posted January 26, 2012 Just a reminder to forumers in Japan that Tamori's visit to the railway research institute will be on NHK at 10pm tonight. Should be a good show. Link to comment
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