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Shirayuki Express, which took 12 hours to connect Kanazawa and Aomori

From now on (2025) to about 40 years ago, express trains ranging from Kanazawa Station in Ishikawa Prefecture to Aomori Station in Aomori Prefecture over 12 hours. It's a train called "Shirayuki". ...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.02.27

Aomori Prefecture's apple harvest is the highest in Japan at 370,000 tons per year! But how much is 370,000 tons?

Many people, even if you don't live in the Tohoku region, know that Aomori Prefecture's specialty is apples. The amount of apples harvested in Aomori Prefecture in 2023 is 374,40...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.02.21

What kind of route was the Konan Railway Owani Line, which was effectively decided to abolish it? [Blue...

Regarding the Owani Line, a railway line operated by Aomori Prefecture's private railway, Konan Railway, Konan Railway intends to suspend train operations at the end of fiscal year 2027...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.02.19

A spectacular view of the 60-year-old famous places in the states, Mutsu - Matsushima scenery and Toyama views (written by Utagawa Hiroshige) Source: ColBase (https://colbase.nich.go.jp/)

Matsushima, the three most famous Japanese scenery, painted by Ukiyo-e artist Utagawa Hiroshige. Does the island in the painting still exist today? [Purchae...

Utagawa Hiroshige is a ukiyo-e artist from the Edo period who is famous for bringing out masterpieces such as the "Fifty-third Tokaido" into the world. In his later years, Hiroshige was known as a famous 70-piece collection of famous places in more than 60 states...

AoiwaAoiwa2025.02.17

A train with a locomotive and passenger train! ? Trains with a strange formation [Aomori, Akita, Iwate]

The main character of Japanese railways today can be said to be "trains." Furthermore, on routes where electricity cannot be supplied for trains (non-electrified routes), "dietic cars" that use diesel fuel as fuel are used...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.02.06

Harumune Date, a portrait of the Sendai City Museum

Date Harumune's grave and his figure at Hoshuji Temple in Fukushima City [Fukushima Prefecture]

Date Harumune, the 15th head of the Date family, is the grandfather of Date Masamune, the first lord of the Sendai domain, and was the person who built the headquarters of the Date family in Yonezawa, Yamagata Prefecture, where Masamune was born...

AoiwaAoiwa2025.02.03

Monument in the swan

Karitamin Shrine in Zao Town, the center of "swan faith" that is passed down in the southern part of the prefecture [Miyagi Prefecture]

Zao Town, Karita District, Miyagi Prefecture. There is a shrine called Karitamine Shrine (Shiratori Daimyojin) located near the boundary between National Route 4 and the Tohoku Expressway. Karita, which has three companies in Zao Town...

AoiwaAoiwa2025.01.28

Sanriku Railway continues to run today after overcoming the crisis [Iwate Prefecture]

There is a railway that runs along the Pacific coast of Iwate Prefecture. It is called the Rias Line from the Sanriku Railway. The Sanriku Railway, which was the last railway to run along the Sanriku Coast, opened, was affected by the major disaster...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.01.23

Entrance to Hikoji folk art

Takashiba Deko Mansion is a local toy village that remains in the territory of the former Miharu Domain [Koriyama City, Fukushima Prefecture]

Did you know that there is a craftsman village called "Takashiba Deko Mansion" near the prefectural border with Miharu Town, about 25 minutes by car from Koriyama Station? Season 9/9 of the popular TV drama "Gourmet of the Solitary"...

AoiwaAoiwa2025.01.22

"Train" can no longer run! ? What is "non-electrification" on the Ou Main Line? [Akita/Yamagata]

In railways, the process of allowing the vehicle to be powered by placing overhead wires (electric wires) above the tracks is called "electrification." Generally, vehicles running along the tracks are often called "trains"...

Yuto OnoYuto Ono2025.01.21

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