Japan for the 9th time - Oct and Nov 2019 - Page 4 - 245

The end of as far as you can go is here. The station remains largely untouched, too hard to dismantle I think. Its a shame they dont re open the remaining few kilometres to Karuizawa, I suspect the very long tunnel is too long to be safe for pedestrians. Interesting fact, the whole line including 20 or more tunnels and a similar number of bridges was built in only 18 months. People occasionally died from the coal smoke as the tunnels had very poor ventilation. A new blind system was invented, but was still almost useless. Hence this little bit of train track in the middle of Japan was the first electrified rail anywhere in Japan.

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Date: 04 November 2019 Time: 12:06:21