historic photo - emu seemingly in middle of forest

[worldrailboy]

while looking at a site of almost exhaustive collection of photos I came across a few that had me curious

this is one of them for the very last photo on bottom
http://www.ab.auone-net.jp/~azm01/page006.html
I'm sure some kind of population must be off the photo to the right but still I just had to ask what was with a centeral platform in this kind of spot
(at least the third to last photo does suggest some buildings clumps in the very background)

[keitaro]

hey thats kurama http://www26.tok2.com/home/japanesestyle/kyoto/kurama.html

the mountins area still looks pretty identical to back then

as you will see in the last photo they have the old one on display... well part of it

the last picture of your link is here i think though i may be wrong
http://www26.tok2.com/home/japanesestyle/kyoto/kurama18.jpg

[westfalen]

Definitely Kurama. Although it looks like it's out in the middle of nowhere it's just a short ride from downtown Kyoto, Japan can be like that, you don't have to go far to get away from it all.

I took this shot from an incoming train in November.

[worldrailboy]

westfalen, is 'short ride' a local bus transfer or ?

to think that for most part in north america 5 minutes out of urban would only simply get you to the dense residential cores at the most, you'll have to do at least 20 minutes or much more to even get any hints of free grass land to start with!

[westfalen]

It's a 30 minute, 12.6 km (7.8 miles) run on the Eizan Railway from their Demachiyanagi station in Kyoto.

[Mudkip Orange]

So now I know what Eizan trains looked like in the olden days. Danke!

[Nick_Burman]

So now I know what Eizan trains looked like in the olden days. Danke!

You still can and do ride old Eizan trains - other than the "Kirara" trainsets the present-day cars are mainly rebuild old equipment. Some cars even retain their Baldwin and MCB trucks!


Cheers NB

[CaptOblivious]

Kyoto is unique, in that it is nestled into a valley, with steep hills on three sides. The location was chosen as militarily strategic...the hills form a natural fortress. The Susan runs right through a narrow pass in the hills to the North to these cute little resort towns up in the hills. It's really a tram line, but it does originate from North Kyoto....from Kyoto Station, you'd have to go one more stop east on the Naraine, then transfer to the Origami, taking it to its northern terminus, which let's out just in front of Demachiyanagi station. So, realistically, more like an hour from central Kyoto.