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Abt no Michi and Meganebashi: walking the old Usui Pass railway
Abt no Michi is a 6.3-kilometer path on a closed railway over the Usui Pass. It passes a 1911 substation, ten brick tunnels and the Meganebashi bridge of 1892. -
Japan's drive-ins: the roadside restaurants where you get out of the car
In Japan a drive-in is a roadside restaurant with a big parking lot, built for the car and bus travel of the 1960s. How it differs from a service area or a michi-no-eki, and why an ekiben maker opened one. -
The Nakasendō and the Usui Barrier: the old road over the pass
The Nakasendō ran inland from Edo to Kyoto through 69 stations. It climbed about 685 meters to the Usui Pass, past a barrier that checked for guns and women. -
Railway heritage in Japan: what has been kept, and who protects it
Brick bridges on a closed mountain line, stations of 1914 still in use, a Kyoto roundhouse and Locomotive No. 1: what Japan has kept of its railways, and how. -
Steam locomotives in Japan: where they still run, and how they came back
Japan's national railway ran its last steam passenger train in 1975, and steam was back within a year. Which locomotives run today, and the steam train to Yokokawa. -
Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park: the Yokokawa depot where visitors drive an EF63
The Usui Pass Railway Heritage Park opened in 1999 on the site of the locomotive depot at Yokokawa. It shows over 30 railway vehicles and lets visitors drive an EF63. -
Yokokawa and the Usui Pass: the railway that climbed 66.7 per mil
From Yokokawa Station, trains once climbed the Usui Pass on a grade of 66.7 per mil. How they did it, and why the stop at Yokokawa made Tōge no Kamameshi famous.