Corrected train schedule for Osawano - Mozumi

Brett Viren (bviren@suketto.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp)
Wed, 20 Mar 1996 03:37:09 +0900 (JST) 

From: bviren@suketto.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp (Brett Viren)
Message-Id: <9603191837.AA08588@sukettoe.icrr.u-tokyo.ac.jp>
Subject: Corrected train schedule for Osawano - Mozumi
To: superk@dsirae.lampf.lanl.gov (US SuperK)
Date: Wed, 20 Mar 1996 03:37:09 +0900 (JST)

Hi all.

The schedule I posted before isn't quit right. Please forget about
it and use this one. These trains have been confirmed with experimental
evidence. (ie. I took some of them).

There are more trains than these, but they involve a longish 
layover at Inotani. Schedules for Sasazu-Inotani can be had in
Sasazu station.

Sasazu	Inotani		Inotani	Mozumi
------	-------		-------	------
812	825		829	837
953	1006		1012	1021
1411	1424		1441	1449
1825	1842		1845	1853
1950	2003		2016	2024
2110	2113		2129	2137


Mozumi	Inotani		Inotani Sasazu
------	-------		-------	------
648	657		714	728
759	808		809	824
957	1006		1011	1025
1214	1223		1324	1337	*
1700	1708		1727	1740
1827	1835		1853	1907
2002	2010		2013	2026
2115	2123		2131	2139

Note that `*' marks a fairly long layover, but if you miss that
957 train after taking the graveyard shift it is either a long
layover or sleep in the O.P.O. till 1700.


How to take the train, or: Details, details, details.

Have roughly 5 bucks in change. And make sure it is in yen.

Go past Lawson, up until just after the YakinIku resturant and turn
right and down hill into Sasazu. The station is pretty obvious,
but it is right across from the big map.

Buy a ticket from the vending machine for the leg to Inotani (Y230) and
say, "You're welcome", to the electronic Arigato-Gosaimas-Lady.  Don't
bother keeping track of the ticket, know one will ask for it.

The train up the mountain will come on the left side of the platform
(as you are looking up the mountain). This you can figure out if you
can tell the difference between the kanji for Takayama and Toyama.

When the train comes, get on. It is usually +/- 1/2 min, but this is 
only 1 sigma.

Two stops to Inotani, which is the end of line for this train.

The train to Mozumi will be on the same track as the one you arive on.
The switch is easy and quick, but not too quick.

Two stops to Mozumi.

Now, amuse youself looking at the confusing way the fares are shown on
the electronic sign, or ponder the two iron kettles hangin from the
ceiling.

This leg is Y200 and you drop your fare in the collector in front,
behind the conductor. If you don't have exact change, drop what you
have in the smaller hole, and a bunch of change will spit out. If you
mistake this for where you pay, you will be laughed at and called a
gaijin. (Well, not really. They won't call you gaijin). The big one in
the center is for payment.
		
When you get to Mozumi, get off, and walk across the big red bridge
to Mozumi-proper. When you are half way across, look around at everything,
breathe in the crisp winter air and admire how beautiful it all is.

Now get in the mine for your shift!

The way home is pretty much as the way to Mozumi except you may have
a pay-with-change train from Inotani to Sasazu instead of a train
where you need a ticket that no one ever collects.

As you can see, the train takes about a 1/2 hour which is close to a
car ride. It does cost Y430 (unless you are an evil scum and forget to
buy the ticket-that-no-one-ever-collects (like I did today)), and one
does have to get to the station, (It takes me about 20 minutes from
SUNY's Fragrance, by bike), but it is almost as easy as comming up via
car.

Now, if getting around only Long Island could be this easy.

Wooo Wooo. Toot,

-Brett.