After our trip to an orchard and having a great time looking at grapes, pears, apples and kiwis still attached to their trees/vines or whatever; we decided on the last minute to take the Resort Shirakami train on the Gono Line. By last minute, I mean - arriving Akita station literally a few minutes before the train was scheduled to depart.
We ran up the JR Ticket Office to book our seats and ran back down to the train's platform. Thank goodness for Japan Rail's punctuality. We never doubt their train schedule and pretty much can hop on any trains we suddenly have a fancy there and then. Zaini never leave behind his copy of the JR train timetable booklet.
We ran up the JR Ticket Office to book our seats and ran back down to the train's platform. Thank goodness for Japan Rail's punctuality. We never doubt their train schedule and pretty much can hop on any trains we suddenly have a fancy there and then. Zaini never leave behind his copy of the JR train timetable booklet.
It was nearing lunch time and we didn't have time to stop and buy any bentos at the station while running to catch this train. We got these from the food cart in the train. There aren't plenty of choice of bento sold by the food cart; and out of the two sold, we bought just one type because well... we can't eat what was in the other bento sold.
Bento box cover
It was kuri (chestnut) season so of course, there's kuri in the bento. Love, love, love them, I do. Nyum nyum. I also love the black fish in the photo above. The fish was so soft, one can eat it whole - fish head, eyes, tail, everything. It tasted like a savoury, chewy candy. Mmmmm... Anyone can enlighten me on what it is called?
Raimie was so hungry, he finished a box all by himself.
The train trip was really nice and for five hours we got to travel through the countryside from Akita to Hirosaki. The coastline view along this Gono Line was absolutely awesome!
I'll post more photos of the coastline sometime in the future. Wait for it!
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