Jeffrey Friedl's Blog » Tiniest Train Station

by Jeffrey Friedl Thu, June 14th, 2007 9:51pm JST (16 years, 10 months ago)

Gakuden Train Station, Furano Japan -- Furano, Hokkaido, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 17mm — ¹/250 sec, f/9, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Gakuden Train Station, Furano Japan

While driving around on our trip to Furano, Hokkaido during Golden Week, we came across the smallest train station I've ever seen. Heck, I've seen larger bus stops.

It was at the junction of Nowhere and Boondocks, near where a road crossed the train tracks. Here's the view one direction from the road....

Looking Northeast -- Furano, Hokkaido, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 17mm — ¹/320 sec, f/9, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Looking Northeast

And the view the other direction....

Looking Southwest -- Furano, Hokkaido, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 17mm — ¹/350 sec, f/9, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
Looking Southwest

This Is The Entire Station -- Furano, Hokkaido, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 34mm — ¹/250 sec, f/9, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
This Is The Entire Station

From Afar -- Furano, Hokkaido, Japan -- Copyright 2007 Jeffrey Eric Francis Friedl, http://regex.info/blog/

Nikon D200 + Nikkor 17-55 f/2.8 @ 17mm — ¹/350 sec, f/9, ISO 250 — map & image data — nearby photos
From Afar

May	2nd,	2007	Snow in May: Visiting Hokkaido
May	5th,	2007	Koinobori in Biei, Hokkaido
May	6th,	2007	Pretty Fields in Biei, Hokkaido, and the Price of Photography
May	10th,	2007	Car Ferry to Hokkaido: Our Trip on the Suisen
May	13th,	2007	Abandoned Houses in Hokkaido
May	18th,	2007	New Furano Prince Hotel, Furano Hokkaido Japan
June	1st,	2007	More Biei Countryside
June	10th,	2007	Furano Wine House Park

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Hi Jeffrey,

Could I please use your picture (looking southwest) on a Security Awareness Poster I’m creating at work. The title will be – ‘stay on the right track – follow company policy’ with your picture below.
It’s a great picture by the way – really beautiful surroundings and great composition.
The poster will only be used in our Council offices and I can credit you for the picture if you’d prefer.
(Also I didn’t read all of your blog (sorry) but have you ever been to England? We’ve got much smaller stations than this!)
I hope you’ll agree to let us use this picture.

Many Thanks in advance

Gina

— comment by Gina Dixon on September 20th, 2007 at 7:59pm JST (16 years, 7 months ago) — comment permalink

Hi Jeffrey. Writing to you from Peacehaven in England. Found your site by putting Playrail trains in search box. I am busy building a tomy tomica model railway layout for exhibition at a Rotary fund raising event in February. Have been wrestling with the problems of building elevated track and had never thought of using lego before. Thank you very much for the idea. Is your son still into trains or has he moved onto girls,computers and motor bikes. Regards. Henry.

— comment by Henry Cade on January 28th, 2010 at 8:57am JST (14 years, 3 months ago) — comment permalink

When I went to Shiga-ken last August (East of Biwa Lake), I took a train from a station which looked like this one. More nostalgia for me. I’ll send the link of this page to the friend I visited back then.

— comment by Anne on September 6th, 2012 at 4:32am JST (11 years, 8 months ago) — comment permalink