Diesel train and old, nostalgic stations in Japan

There are many secluded stations in Japan, because it is beside frowning cliffs, in wild highlands or there are a very few people living there. These stations have still been as it was made, and we can feel its old and long history with a station, waiting room and buildings.
These stations have only a few trains a day and people can't get there by trains easily and soon, some of them are ones even hard to go there by cars and motorbikes.

We went to 2 old stations named "Chiwa" and "Mimasaka-kawai".
These stations are JR INBI-Line Tsuyama-Shizu in Okayama prefecture, or a very local train.
Take a look of the following video, you can understand what Japanese rocal trains are like, and "Chiwa station" is around 34 mins later and "Mimasaka-kawai station" is around 40 mins in the video.

JR Inbi-Line Tsuyama-Shizu

I took some photos of these stations and a video of a turntable that a train with a lot of snow turned around and went back to Tottori, where have a lot of snow. I will show you the video of a turntable in another page.

"Chiwa Station"

Entrance

Waiting room

Ticket counter

Staff room ( inside of the ticket counter)

Ticket gate

Telephone box

Platform

"Mimasaka-kawai Station"

Entrance

昨日は、岡山のおばあさんのお見舞いの帰りに、鉄道ファンには超有名なローカル線であるJR因美線にある2駅に行ってきました。

因美線は津山と鳥取を結んでいるローカル線で、私たちが訪れたのは知和駅と美作河井駅の2つ。

上にあるYouTubeの動画の、大体３４分あたりに知和駅が、４０分あたりに美作河井駅が出てきます。なかなかのんびりした良い駅でした。こんな秘境の駅巡りを、こんな慌ただしいスケジュールで見学するのではなく、今度は電車で来たいなあ。鉄道ファンたちは、こんなローカル線の駅で泊まるのも、また旅の醍醐味の一つと旦那は話していました。

また、美作河井駅は、岡山県の最北端にあって、鳥取方面からの除雪車を折り返すための転車台がある駅で有名だそうで、それは次のページで紹介しようと思っています～～