>>49411008Great photo. It's a special unique flavor of melancholy. The logs on that website detail someone's visits -majority over 20 years ago.
Some of these stations are removed from everything and completely isolated. No accessible roads or settlements, often surrounded by mountains. The strange principal questions arise of why they exist at all and what brings one to them. There's almost always a rational answer -camping, fishing, drop off points for maintenance workers, old forestry/agricultural spots etc. . However, if you ask the soul, you discover there is a deeper interstitial aura to these locations. In this one finds their hidden truth and a strange beauty.
Some of these stations simply exist for their own sake, long detached from any rational reason. They are almost forgotten, a faded redmark on some dusty clipboard.
It's very relaxing to read the logs even with the dilution of the English translation.
On the Koboro visit they run into someone that was squatting in the remote rundown waiting room. The fate of the person is unknown.
The Omori visit, a fear of the nearby wild dogs.
The Kowada visit, an understanding conductor, a midnight exploration, and a camping setup.
Tsubojiri visit, a lone old local taking care of the station. The individual claims to be short on money and sleeps in the small waiting room overnight.
