Just some random local trains and a bus or two that either all of us took or the ones Zaini took on his pursuit to recover Raimie's lost Ultraman Max jacket.
But first, a shot of Kanazawa loop bus. We took this bus to get to Kenrokuen, and it was filled by elderly folks - residents of the area by the look of it. So this loop bus is not only useful to tourists, they seemed to be a hit with local folks too. The bus operates every 12 minutes and cost 200 yen per ride. A one day pass is available for 500 yen and includes discounted admission to several attractions.
Just my observation, buses in Japan are really popular with the old folks, no? We took quite a few buses to get around and the bus users seems to consist mainly of the aging population of Japan.Truthfully for someone like me who used to zip along KL on the pink BMW and then graduated to those Metrojaya & Len Seng buses, riding buses in Japan can be rather a painfully slow trip. The bus drivers adhere to speed limits and it seems that if there is someone at the bus stop, they will stop even though nobody flagged the bus.The beauty of it though is that buses do run according to schedule at all stops! It took us an hour and a half to get to Asakusa from Ikebukuro on a bus! @.@ But we get to see neighborhoods we wouldn't have seen otherwise, if we use a train.
Just my observation, buses in Japan are really popular with the old folks, no? We took quite a few buses to get around and the bus users seems to consist mainly of the aging population of Japan.Truthfully for someone like me who used to zip along KL on the pink BMW and then graduated to those Metrojaya & Len Seng buses, riding buses in Japan can be rather a painfully slow trip. The bus drivers adhere to speed limits and it seems that if there is someone at the bus stop, they will stop even though nobody flagged the bus.The beauty of it though is that buses do run according to schedule at all stops! It took us an hour and a half to get to Asakusa from Ikebukuro on a bus! @.@ But we get to see neighborhoods we wouldn't have seen otherwise, if we use a train.
Local trains taken at Wakura Onsen. I find the type of train heads really interesting, much more so than the more modern looking trains.
The Hokuriku sleeper train. This train did its final run from Kanzawa to Ueno on March 12, 2010.
And lastly, an interior shot of the Limited Express Thunderbird. I have a lot of photos on the interior of the trains we took while in Japan, but never really posted and written much about them. I need to do more research on all those individual train someday! Anyway, don't think anyone would care about them as much as we do. ^^
If anyone interested to know how the interior of Tsubame, Sonic, Hikari Railstar, Max Toki, Komachi, Narita Express, Rapit, Haruka, Noto; just to name a few; look like, let me know. I can post them up someday. Any day. :)
If anyone interested to know how the interior of Tsubame, Sonic, Hikari Railstar, Max Toki, Komachi, Narita Express, Rapit, Haruka, Noto; just to name a few; look like, let me know. I can post them up someday. Any day. :)
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