Tell me in the Morning

Some edits of our pics taken during a ride on Japan’s “Moomin Train” -- the Isumi Testudo, or the Isumi Railway Line, in Chiba Prefecture

The Isumi Line fair ambles its way through the backyards, rice paddies, forests and fields of Chiba’s rural Boso Peninsula, east of Tokyo.

It's a right old charmer. Named after the town of its origin, the Isumi Line’s matchbox carriages ease out of their Ohara Station departure point to languidly journey through around 26 km and 13 stations before terminating at Kazusanakano -- station No. 14 and the end of the line.

And what stations. Some of the these humble structures date back to 1912. Of the 14 stations, only two are actually staffed, and many appear as little more than dilapidated bus shelters, poking out from the Boso’s hedgerows and woods, pot marked with potted plants, flowers and bougainvillea.

took a peaceful walk around the neighborhood.

天気が良かったのでカメラを持ってお散歩。