JR East Oku Depot will be open to the public on November 15th 2014

[cteno4]

From profit of the way on jtrains forum

 

As reported by Gareth Bayer, JR East Oku Depot will be open to the

public on November 15th 2014.

 

http://www.jreast.co.jp/tabidoki/tabitetsu/common/pdf/201410/141028_03.pdf

(J text)

 

November 15 (Saturday)

10AM - 3PM (Enter by 2PM)

Free admission.

 

The following trains will be on exhibition:

 

Joyful train 'Zipang'

Narita Express E259 emus

Vintage passenger cars

 

Access:

 

Tohoku Line, Takasaki Line Oku Station

Walk southeast along tracks from exit and take underpass

to get to the other side of tracks.

(See page 4 of above PDF file.)

 

Yamanote Line, Keihin-Tohoku Line Tabata Station

Take north exit, cross bridge and walk northwest along tracks.

About 15 minutes from exit.

[katoftw]

Free admission.  Sounds like a fun day out.

[railsquid]

Curses. My fun day out tomorrow will be to Ikea in Tachikawa...

[gmat]

Went there after my morning lessons and offered to take my student. Got there after 1pm and mostly let him do what he wanted. He rode the cherry picker (Magic Boy) but we were too late to go on the motorized cart. The first thing that he wanted to do was eat his lunch. He also wasn't interested in wearing a conductor's uniform. He was interested in the rail cutting demonstration. We had stopped earlier at Tokyo Station to take a few movies of the Shinkansens. Ran out of battery power for his camera there, so taking pictures was a bust. We did happen by chance to shoot the Resort 21. Got his picture with the train conductor.

 

The Nagomi was there and we ate in a 185. Saw the Zipang as we were leaving. He got a train medallion and a train sox for his sister and brother. Not much goods for sale yesterday.

He said that he enjoyed it.

 

Best wishes,

Grant

Edited November 15, 2014 by gmat

[bikkuri bahn]

Lesson of the day: charge your camera battery the night before, and don't forget to put it back in the camera before leaving the front door (I did the latter and missed some shots of the Meitetsu 7000 series panorama back in 2009).

[gmat]

True, true, true.

Unfortunately, I didn't know about the Oku Depot Family Day until last week, so there was no warning for the student's parents. Plus he prefers videos shots to camera shots and they burn up the battery charge rather quickly. 

I've also taken my camera while the battery was being charged a couple of times. Usually when I'm rushing out the door on the way to a lesson.

 

Hope that you are fine, Andrew.

 

Best wishes,

Grant