Walking Along the Ruined Railroad

My son living in Tokyo mailed me last night and said that I had got a comment for my blog and I should have answered it sooner. I'm so sorry, Mr.G not to write back and thank you for your kind comment. Mt. Asama is active this year and we can see white smoke from it When I finish publishing my essay, I get relieved and don' t open my computer for some time. To tell the truth , I'm not good at computer or internet, and when I want to do something with it, I need my husband's help. Whenever I do something with the computer, I feel scared it might be broken or exploded. My husband says, "You won't learn anything as long as I live." It must be true

A few days ago, my family visited "Tetsudou bunka Mura", the park for the exhibition of trains and railroads, in Yokokawa, Gunma. There, we can see many kinds of railroad coaches. that were once running on the railroads. My grandchildren were excited on a train led by a miniature steam locomotive. We also enjoyed walking the trail in the mountain and bathing in good onsen. The trail was once a railroad from Yokokawa to Karuizawa; it means it was a part of the railroad from Tokyo to Nagano. The line was called 'Shinetsu-sen', the line to Nagano and Niigata. It was one of the main and important lines. Before the winter Olympic games held in Nagano, they built the Shinkansen to Nagano. from Tokyo Then they cut off Shinetsusen at Yokokawa to get all the passengers on Shinkansen. It was quite a stupid idea. Shinetsusen was working perfectly with a lot of turists and commuters. After that, when we want to go to Tokyo, we have to take Shinkansen with an expensive ticket There is no way left to travel slow and cheep on the train. And, people can't commute from Komoro to Annaka, for example. .Now, the railroad track between Yokokawa and Karuizawa is used as a trail for walking. The area is very mountainious, and building railrosds was very difficult , they say. Those railroads and brick bridges are just ruins now. If you are interested, why don't you walk along the trail in the early summer green?
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