Native practice journey may be very a lot how I wish to journey when going round Japan however sometimes I truly do take the Shinkansen (bullet practice) 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. Worth is certainly not a difficulty must you select to board this one although!!
That is the 200 collection Shinkansen for the Tohoku and Joetsu Shinkansen high-speed rail traces 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 is rarely afraid to plumb to new depths so deposited within the south-east nook of the park is a construction that may bowel you over! Individuals 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 certain you’d labored that out by now although given the very wee-k bathroom puns which were 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 can 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 assume 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 in addition to 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 identical 12 months that the Shinkansen 200 Collection started working between Ueno and Omiya; the nearest Shinkansen cease about 12 km eastwards.
It’s speculated that the common public bathroom was changed by this ivory and inexperienced bullet practice design as a memorial to the 200 Collection 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 highly regarded Summer season day in July. It was 34 levels after I did that which was possibly not such a good suggestion. Extra of an excrement one if you happen to choose!
Bonus: Time to dip into the Tokyo Fox archives to search out another toilet-related tales and, as you’ll be able to possibly guess, these bathrooms are exterior Oku Station (1 Shōwamachi, Kita-ku) on the Takasaki and Utsunomiya Strains. It featured within the ‘Tokyo Trendy Structure #4‘ put up from November 2018 and is maybe my favorite bathroom block. Sure I actually did simply say that. There may be truly an Instagram web page devoted to the structure of bathrooms in Japan. Seek for toilets_a_go_go if you happen to’re !
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