A 10 hour layover while flying back to the states following a deployment in Southeast Asia provided me with a chance to check off a major item on any railfan's bucket list; ride Japan's Shinkansen... (more)

A 10 hour layover while flying back to the states following a deployment in Southeast Asia provided me with a chance to check off a major item on any railfan's bucket list; ride Japan's Shinkansen... (more)

KIHA 283 Limited Express "Super Hokuto" from Hakodate to Sapporo.

Limited Express Suisei from Shin-Osaka to Miyazaki.

Limited express "Izumo" crossing the Amarube bridge.

The rice‐planting season has come to Tohoku (Northeast area of Honshu main island). This power unit wear special message of "Ganbaro Tohoku (Let's recover Tohoku) to encourage the disaster a... (more)

DD51 freight liner.

The C57 were graceful little engines. It has been a long time, but I believe this is a Sasebo to Nagasaki local approaching the junction at Haiki where the branch to Sasebo joins the mainline to ... (more)

Canon EOS 40D with Canon EF 24-105L IS f/4

A passenger with the JR-cap in the driver's cab at the rear of the shinkansen. The speed is about 180 km per hour, you see the tachometer on the right side

Near the station Yurakucho: The Shinkansen left is leaving, the right one is arriving at Tokyo. Good visible are the roofs from the cars from a localtrain. Under the tracks is the pedestrain-zone.... (more)

Tokyo Main Station: 1 Shinkansen is arriving, 6 others in the station. Left the tracks for the localtrains. The photo is taken from a restaurant on the 14th floor

Many ticketmachines and the giant railway-lines-system from Tokyo in the main hall of the station Ueno

The Tokyo Monorail to the airport Haneda at the station Hamamatsucho, there is only one track. The left train has left the station, the switch is working for the train at the right to arrive at th... (more)

Left the Shinkansen, right a train from the Yurikamome-Line from the 'Tokyo Waterfront New Transit Corporation' (Hamamatsucho - Toyosu), these trains are leaded by the rail in the middle. The whee... (more)