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2015.05.17
It is a fine, clear day today.
Rice planting in Fukui City reaches its peak.
I dropped by Fukui Horse Park and found two ponies feeding.
By the way, Japan is long from north to south so the time of planting rice
depends on the region. For example, in some places
they do it in June but in Ishigaki Island, Okinawa, they finish it in March
and already harvest in May.
2015.05.16
This is the train model 880 of Fukui Railway.
The other day, I introduced new and retro model of trains.
This is the design of a typical box-type train.
I think this is also one of interesting design.
2015.04.28
I sometimes go to the post office to buy a special stamp.
The Nagano-Kanazawa route of the Hokuriku Shinkansen Line began services on March 15 this year.
The other day, I bought its special stamp of the Hokuriku Shinkansen.
It was included in such a fashionable sheet.
There are three types of the special stamps which are national version, Hokuriku version and Shin-Etsu version.
2015.04.21
"RETRAM" that I introduced the other day is the train made in Germany about 50 years ago.
This is the train made in Japan which is licensed of German technology.
A nickname is "FUKURAM".
This is a coined word that combines the FUKUI and TRAM.
It's said that "FUKURAM" was named that the city and the dream will become bigger.
There are an orange and a blue train, but the blue one is run newly from February this year.
2015.04.16
The other day, I saw an extra train.
I checked web pages. It was "RETRAM" of Fukui Railway for events.
From the spring of 2014, it was run only Saturday, Sunday and holidays.
It will be run also in this autumn.
I felt the usual landscape freshly.
