Japan’s railway network may be renowned as one of the best in the world, but that doesn’t stop large parts of it, particularly many tiny rural stations, from being rather shabby – train and photography otaku share the worst examples:
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I dont get what is so bad about most of them
Still think this is a weird hobby to have.
You know what's really weird? Otaku that go and photograph rural stations BATHROOMS.
http://ceyellowliner.net/rail/jrhanwa_eki/yamanakadani.htm
Explain this to me.
Shabby?
These're beautiful and they are way better than those modern building we have now.
Those modern buildings are just fighting to be the tallest building yet they hold no special meanings. At anytime in future, they can be replace easily just by another "tallest" building.
Back to this post, each of these railway station hold a special memories for those past users. Looking at them keep me wondering how those users are feeling when they are at these station. Are they waiting to take a train back home or are they waiting for train to arrive and fetch their loved ones. Just thinking about them fills me with anticipations.
I may sound naive. But sometimes it's good to be sentimental, emotional about these stuffs from the past. They remind us what we have now is build base on what we have from the past.
5 Centimeters Per Second (2007)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lFi-hIrWCvQ
You don't sound naive at all, it's called reminiscing a time when the moments lasted longer, where "now" didn't die within the next 5 seconds.
hey, at least their bathrooms are CLEAN - which is more than what I can say about where I came from.
Yea I dun get it. Those train stations look small, not shabby. Shabby would mean dillapidated in this case. These places for the most part don't look neglected. Wtf?
I agree, cozy little stations in the countryside (sometimes in the middle of nowhere) are fascinating. They may look funny but not so shabby.
I'm adding my own experience - I took these shots in 2003 near Kyoto:
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/7715/trainstation1.jpg
http://img69.imageshack.us/img69/2168/trainstation2.jpg
Looking both sides from the same spot. What is not clear from the pics is, the station is on a large bridge between mountains, and 30+ meters below a river runs through! ^_^;
Ah, if I recall correctly that's a JR line.
Shabby my ass.
their rustic look blends so well with the foliage.
Shabby my ass. their rustic look blends so well with the foliage.
Yeah i knew i wasn't the only one that got the whole "5 cm per second" vibe from these, and maybe my eye's are seeing things but i think i saw the train station from the movie in one of these...
Anyways, it's not about these looking shabby or whatnot, it really is about the memories one makes from a location such as this; it doesn't even have to be a train station. Whether it be a building from your childhood like a school, a train station, or even the tree where you told someone you loved them back when you were in grade school and you didn;t know what those particular words meant, but you sure as hell know what the feelings meant when you recall a memory from a location that burned itself into your mind and triggers moments of nostalgia when revisited at a later time in life.
Yeah. It is kind of romantic actually. The oldschool, one small shack being the entire train station. Very oldschool.
Yea, I can't agree that theyre really shabby, but seeing them all is kinda calming. Some sort of rural architectural power maybe? Or too many anime...
midnight meat train
Me too, Most railway stations in Ukraine look worse than this.
Some may look old and rusty, yet that gives their aura of appeal. Perhaps a few of them hold historic value by how they appear. There also some in these pictures that seems to match their background(nature's landscape+aged station).
true. they have an antique-ish look. also feels like you jumped into a manga.
a good thing about these is that they seem preserved. not like here where train station is pack full of homeless hobos.
(i know they poor and all of that, but...)
What's so shabby with pics?
Yeah, they're not shabby, they're cute. :(
Neat spiffy little things, these.
Yeah, most of these are not shabby at all.
I'd say they are minimalistic.
And I like that.
Me, too. They look way better than the large train stations that we have in America.
I wouldn't mind waiting for a train at some of those places, sit back and relax watch the scenery.
WTF? Shabby? 43 looks like a ski resort and 142 is a convention center.
These aren't shabby... in my rural hometown there's an 80 year old wooden station that's been shelled out but still in use, as well as a makeshift station that's literally a slab of concrete slapped over a hillside. That's a private line. On the JR leading out of my town there are very nostalgic looking stations as well. This photo set is comparatively modern and not run down at all.
Ive actually traveled on trains in a lot of places in the world. (Warning: I probably spelled some of these wrong, but not on purpose) France, Italy, Ukrain, England, Spain, Chech Republic, Germany, Switzeland, Austira, Mexico, Beijing to Nanjing then to Shanghai, Brazil to Argentina and Chili (dont think I spelled that right), here in Taiwan, Japan, The US are some of the places Ive been to and traveled by train, day and night trains. To be honest, compared to what Ive seen, these Japanese stations look way better than some of the places Ive been to. Id take one of these secluded stations over the ugly ass Milan main station.
Small yes. Ugly, I dont think so. They look fine and probably better suited since a lot of these places are way isolated.
Milano Centrale: loathed by travellers since 1932.
Yeah, there are a few decrepit old hulks in there, but most of them are just small, quaint or isolated. A few of them look pretty new, actually. This is more like a collection of "kawaii" train stations.
they may look old and shabby but they have a clean look on them, shabby whabby
I don't find most of them ugly, but one thing that bugs me is the localization of some of them. Once, when I lived in Shiga-ken, I overslept in the train back home and wake up some stops ahead... I got out in one of these tiny stations... that are localized in the middle of nowhere! seriously, there wasn't a single house for miles, just the dirty road and the station. I started wondering 'why the hell did they put one station here?!'...
They look pretty picturesque, actually.
It makes you want to just grab a chair, a brush and some paint, and just draw it on a canvas.
I feel isolation when looking at these train stations, but at the same time, a feeling of wanderlust and happy nostalgia~
Those stations hold many memories for the few individuals that use them, and that makes them unique in their own way.
rather than shabby those train station got character
Hello
Thanks for the great gallery, with the unfortunate name ...lol
These Stations ROCK~! Triti
Shabby? Take out the Asian stuff and you get how all train stations (except for in cities) look around here...
As long as the last train stops at dusk.
I don't fancy meeting ANYONE or ANYTHING in the dead dark...
despite some of the pictures showing how shabby some places are, Most of them are really cool to look at, like pic 111.
If this were in my country, you'd have 2 generations living in each station....
Some of the bigger stations here are even bigger than the ones of my hometown.
What's wrong about this? I think they are beautiful and kinda nostalgic.
Also pic no.1 reminds me about ef series.
Rural Japan is beautiful.
Some of the last rural shots were quite tasteful.
Indeed. I like all the ones I saw.
They are calm and simple.
Well there were at least 3 or 4 that were shabby.
Most are just small and cute..
[Insert asian cock joke here]
Whats with the one that looks like a Barrel?
That is so Wild~~!
Triti
Amazing~! I had to download and gaze at every one.
You can see where hundreds of people flowed through every day.... to work, shop, love~~!
...an Art Form is its own right...
ARIGATO ~~~ Triti
#2 looks like shakkoumon
Exactly. I thought it reminded me of some{thing,one} but could not remember what/who.
Yeah, I personally like the small stations in the middle of the country. They've got so much more character than some of the modern stations.
Though, some of them are just plain corny.
same thought exactly lol