This blog is about trainspotting in Japan and the United Kingdom. It mainly consists of topics about trains in Kanto (particularly Greater Tokyo area) and in England (mainly in Greater London). I endeavour to post an article on Saturdays.
The raisons d'etre of this blog are: (i) to show photos and provide some tips on trainspotting in my country to non-Japanese railway enthusiasts; (ii) to let everybody know how an ordinary Japanese trainspotter takes photos of train in the UK, as Japanese people take them quite differently from British people; and (iii) to keep my ability of writing English.
Main articles on this blog contain information of when and where I took that photo. If there is no data on each photo, the information is written either in the body or at the very end of the article.
Comments are always welcome, though it might take up to several days to reply.
Check also my Twitter and website (The Red List of Trains in Japan)
About the author
I have been living in Yokohama for more than twenty years (with some interruption), and I have been using Keikyu almost every day since I was a high school student. I started taking photos of trains in 2010, less than a year before university admission exams (to escape from stressful days). I also lived in Cambridge when I was a child, and in London when I was a postgraduate student.
I started writing a blog in English in May 2019, seven years after I started a Japanese one. However, due to a copyright infringement, many past articles have been unavailable.
About photos
All photos on this website are my work, and a blue semi-transparent logo is inserted to all photos to prevent unauthorised reproduction. Unfortunately, some people have copied my photos and uploaded to their blogs without my consent, pretending as if they were their own works. Therefore, I have decided to take a precaution.
I take photos in accordance with general methods and customary rules of Japanese trainspotters (photos should be taken when it is sunny, the first pantograph must not overlap with poles and so on, etc.), although sometimes there is no choice but to make compromise.
Disclaimer
All information is carefully examined, but may contain minor errors or inaccuracy. Some description may be subjective as you can see from context.
All photos were taken from where accessible to everybody (platforms or public roads), or private areas with authorisation (such as inside a depot). Today, some places may be unable to access or difficult to take photos.
With respect to articles and photos about Japan, names of station, line and company are based on official route map written English.
