Native prepare journey could be very a lot how I wish to journey when going round Japan however often I really do take the Shinkansen (bullet prepare) albeit often solely when travelling with my spouse or time is of utmost significance. As a lot as I just like the Shinkansen expertise I simply discover the price of utilizing it so costly. Value is certainly not a problem must you select to board this one although!!
That is the 200 sequence Shinkansen for the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen high-speed rail strains which was in existence till 2013. Exit this one although and also you’re not in Niigata however are literally in Fukuoka Chuo Park (1-3-9 Uenodai, Fujimino-shi, Saitama). Journey up the Tobu Toju Line from Ikebukuro in direction of Kawagoe however alight a few stops early at Kami Fukuoka Station and there’s a spacious park about eight minutes away on foot.
Tokyo Fox isn’t afraid to plumb to new depths so deposited within the south-east nook of the park is a construction that may bowel you over! Folks of a delicate nature had higher not dare present their faeces round right here for this Shinkansen is definitely a block of bathrooms. I’m positive you’d labored that out by now although given the very wee-k rest room puns which have been dumped shamelessly into this paragraph!
In these nervy Covid-19 occasions we have to resolve one factor and that’s when these footage had been taken. I can ass-ure you that they had been taken round 4 years in the past so you may say that I’ve been sitting on this “story” for fairly a while! I simply wanted to get it out of my cistern and now I suppose I can lastly put a lid on this matter!
Practice lovers will probably be determined to go……and see this ivory and inexperienced Shinkansen however be ready to not get too slowed down by particulars because the signboard apart from the bathrooms doesn’t even point out the Shinkansen however simply states that an earthquake-resistant emergency water storage tank was put in in 1985 which is similar 12 months that the Shinkansen 200 Sequence started working between Ueno and Omiya; the nearest Shinkansen cease about 12 km eastwards.
It’s speculated that the common public rest room was changed by this ivory and inexperienced bullet prepare design as a memorial to the 200 Sequence that was first launched in 1982.
Final 12 months I as soon as once more visited this park as a part of a cycle experience to Kawagoe on a extremely popular Summer time day in July. It was 34 levels once I did that which was perhaps not such a good suggestion. Extra of an excrement one for those who choose!
Bonus: Time to dip into the Tokyo Fox archives to search out another toilet-related tales and, as you may perhaps guess, these toilets are outdoors Oku Station (1 Shōwamachi, Kita-ku) on the Takasaki and Utsunomiya Strains. It featured within the ‘Tokyo Fashionable Structure #4‘ publish from November 2018 and is maybe my favorite rest room block. Sure I actually did simply say that. There may be really an Instagram web page devoted to the structure of bathrooms in Japan. Seek for toilets_a_go_go for those who’re !
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