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Probably my favourite place that I visited in Nagoya, the SCMaglev and Railway Park is a haven for train lovers. Everything about Japanese train history, from the steam locomotives to the avant-garde maglev trains, and everything in between from onboard refreshments, tickets, even the toilets were on full display! Whilst I’ve been in other train museums in Japan, this definitely blew the ones I’ve visited out of the water.
I regretted leaving this place as an afterthought when I visited for the first time, which left me with not enough time to explore the place before I had to rush back to the station to catch a bullet train to Tokyo. Visiting this place the second time was much less rushed and allowed me to explore even more of the place, but I still feel like there’s not enough time to look at everything – I didn’t have enough time to look at the special cafeteria nor the theatre sections. Given some of their exhibits rotate, I could probably make a case for visiting a third time. Maybe someday.
I did buy the comprehensive museum guidebook to tide me over until then.
It’s not very remarkable, but the view is just refreshing as you travel along the train lines between Nagoya and Takayama.
Fukui was pretty out of the way as Japanese cities go, though their famous dinosaur museum was a point of pride. As of mid-March, however, the city became a lot more reachable as a Shinkansen station was finally opened. Unfortunately, I was only stopping by so I didn’t get to see the museum proper, but these animatronic dinosaur statues are still a sight to see right outside the station. I’m quite interested in going to the museum in a future trip.
If you’re intrigued, the city is about 2 hours away from Osaka by train (1.5-hour express train and a 30-minute Shinkansen), and the museum is at the edge of the city. Definitely worth visiting alongside other stops in the Hokuriku Area.
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