Run your own train in our layout!

Our HO scale layout is open to our overnight staying customers.
Details are here.

Now it looks like above, but it did like below at the first time back in March last year (2006)

I am not a good carpenter, never good at making anything but anyway I have reached a certain point to drive trains in the layout! I appreciate all the help and support I have gotten from everyone. Please keep yelling!!

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Layout name

is not decided yet :(

#1 Hayaokidori tetsudo(railway)
#2 Hakuba kogen(highland) tetsudo
#3 Hayaokidori international railways
#4 Hakuba kokusai(international) tetsudo

Hum..... Japanese or English, have to decide which language I use for it first!!!

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JNR583 series limited express "Hatsukari"

A pic of "Hatsukari" when I travelled around Tohoku region with some friends in 1977.

I was on an express train "Inawashiro" which connected Aidu-Wakamatsu and Sendai. "Inawashiro" was exactly an express train but it stopped all stations throughout Fukushima from Aidu-Wakamatsu. Another express train "Matsushima" overtook the "Inawashiro" somewhere around Motomiya or Nihonmatsu. Then this "Hatsukari" overtook the "Inawashiro" maybe at Shiraishi if I remember correctly.

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Rosemary buds

Found some buds at our rosemarry plants. Rosemarries are usually in bloom in winter throughout spring. Very small flowers which you can find if you were careful enough.
We put rosemarry pots below some plastic roof in summer to avoid rainfalls. Rosemarries don't like humid weather, so that they can grow enough in sunmer. We cut some in winter for cooking, so our rosemarries usually get smaller in winter and they look like baby rosemarries in spring as we cut them too much! lol...
Probably we had better not cut them so much in winter because I guess winter is the time for them to rest. They don't grow much in winter - they always grow so slow through the year. But while we run an accommodation in a ski resort, anyway we get more guests in winter rather than in summer.

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A small picture frame

Bought this one at a flea market maybe in Roma or Milano or Vemezia ( don't remember where I bought it!! ) when I travelled around Europe by myself in 1982 or 1984, not sure which. Usually I buy a picture of scenery when I buy some but this is not a scenery one, wonder why I bought it. Now it sits at a shelf of our bar, I think it becomes there. Exactly the description there is French though I bought it somewhere in Italy.

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Containers to stock something

We use various stuff to stock something.

The left one had many nori ( black paper ; sea weeds )inside but now I stock some lasagna in it. The right one has a rubber cover, is used to stock some ribbon pasta.


This type of stuff has a pair of strong wires to hold the cap, so it won't be broken so easily.

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MP (Multi Perpose ) gear textbook 2

A regular poster to our Japanese blog adviced me to get a MP gear textbook so I did. Endo MP gear manual vol.2


I found some advertisement of their products, all HO scale.

JR Hokkaido 261 series 4 diesel cars set -- 299,250 yen!
Former JNR 167 series Shugaku rhoko train 4 passenger cars set -- 189,000 yen!

I don't have enough budget for them now lol...

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