1. With a hotel which passes and bed Limited Express "Sunrise"?

The sleeper train I took 17 years ago was a trigger for coming to like railroad travel. The bed Limited Express on which I got for the first time "Fuji and falcon" was too fun, so after that, "Hokutosei", "Sea of Japan", "twilight express" and "Cassiopeia", "in GU which has come", I took the sleeper train which ran then away. But time passes and those disappear instantly.

The sleeper train I'm doing fixed period movement of every day at present is a bed Limited Express "Sunrise" chisel. This time was its valuable Sunrise, and I was traveling to Izumo Taisha visited like every year.

Bed Limited Express "Sunrise" is the sleeper train by which 1 every day goes back and forth between Tokyo - Izumo city and Tokyo-Takamatsu. 14 cars depart Tokyo station by organization, and descent is divided into 7 cars of 7 cars of "Sunrise Izumo" for Izumo city and "Seto of Sunrise" for Takamatsu by Okayama Station. Sunrise for which an up train departed the Izumo Ichi Station and the Takamatsu Station connects by Okayama Station and goes to Tokyo station.

By the way, I go down the way where a train goes up and leaves the descent from Tokyo station originated at Tokyo station and go up something to go to Tokyo station, if, I say. It's being changed again in case of the train which isn't Tokyo station departure and arrival.

It's 21:50 that Sunrise leaves Tokyo station. I arrive at Takamatsu Station around next 7:30 about 9 hours and a half later at next 10:00 about 12 hours later to Izumo Ichi Station.

All all except for the open location of carpet laying as "NOBINOBI seat" is divided into the type as "single", "single deluxe", "single twin" and "Sunrise twin" in the private room for Sunrise. The price is also different respectively, so I'll examine which typewriter you'd like to get on beforehand.

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Every one office has a bed. In other words, while I'm sleeping, it's the reason you carry to the destination. Indeed it's "hotel which passes", isn't it? A private room is locked, so you can sleep surely.

2. The trick to take a ticket for Sunrise

Now, I think a person with interest knows in bed Limited Express "Sunrise" already to here. Problems are arrangements of a ticket. Sunrise becomes completely popular already and is full every day. I came to have trouble taking a ticket by an independent tour in these several years.

I begin to sell a ticket for train from 10:00am 1 month before. The way to reserve whether you line up a green desk according to its 10:00 by a site as "e5489" by oneself is general. The green man to contact will look for a place to which it corresponds simultaneously with 10:00 beforehand.

A ticket is often sold out in several minutes, so the back, only luck. Even if a day of goal is sold out, it's essential to give nothing up. Cancellation goes out, so I'd hope that you confirm whether it isn't often uncrowded.

Just before a cancellation fee becomes high in particular, there are 2 days before of ride day and a possibility cancellation goes out, and that a seat becomes available. The person who can correspond suddenly also recommends to aim at that.

Sunrise has no store on the trains. I have to get food and liquor ready by myself and bring it in it means that. I'll always buy a box lunch and liquor at "Ekibenya Matsuri Gransta Tokyo store" in Tokyo station. A snack and a soft drink will be prepared at other convenience stores.

A vending machine of a soft drink is in the car, but everything is sometimes sold out, so I think it's better to take some.

Equipment is prepared by a plastic cup, pajamas and slippers in the private room of Sunrise. I drink wine by this cup and bring it to the restroom in an outside in case of tooth brushing. There is also an outlet a mirror, a hanger and Smartphone can charge in an interior.

When buying the shower card sold in car 3 and car 10, it's possible to use a shower room. The shower card is subject to the number restrictions, so it's recommended to line up a home at around 21 o'clock before Sunrise train entering to get it at Tokyo station. There is no preparation of towel kinds, so I'll bring it.

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The shower cards are sold in car 3 and car 10, but the entrance and exit way in car 4 and car 11 is the one near a ticket vending machine, and the matrix is made there.

3. A secret base sense is enjoyed in the single twin room.

The one with the largest number of rooms is "single" in the private room of Sunrise. There is a type of the 1st floor and the 2nd floor, and "single" recommends the 2nd floor in particular. It's possible to have time while judging the far light and the month from a window. The room where I got most, too.

I got on the "single twin" liked most this time. The private room "single twin" is the make of the upper and lower bunk bed, and which can be used with 2 people as the name. Well, it becomes slightly expensive, but it's also more practicable by itself than a single.

When boarding is also the upper and lower step in the bed specification. But, when removing a green mattress in a lower berth and taking out a desk, surprisingly, I change costume quickly into a living room! A room with such gimmick is only a single twin here.

I (work by the lower living room and don't progress often), but it's the bed which is the top if a box lunch is eaten, and becomes sleepy, drinking liquor, and it's intolerable and I like sleeping. There may be also a case that I longed for the room where a desk is put under the bunk bed around a child greatly.

A private room can be locked from outside and from inside. When going to Restroom, I'll turn a key of the numerical keypad system from outside and go out.

A conductor is going around each room in confirmation of a ticket after a train departs. You knock at a door, so I unlock and deal at that time. When it's possible to meet a conductor before departure, you can check the ticket at the place.

I eat and drink alone, seeing the scenery toward which I wander after I open a PC and work just a little. I was having supper already, so I spent long time while drinking red wine to pick the "grilled chicken of" Kokugikan Hall which is often bought as an appetizer.

There is a lot of these combination for the food brought into Sunrise recently. But, when I didn't sleep, it sounded on the next day, so it was in a hurry and it was stopped and the preparations which lie idle were done.

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When I take Sunrise, tension can go up and never go to sleep easily. The contradiction to which I say that it's wasteful to sleep though it's the train to sleep. This is also the delicious taste of the sleeper train.

4. Can a box lunch be received in the car?

Seto of Sunrise is separated from Sunrise Izumo at Okayama in the next morning. While I touch and am running, you can associate, but a door can close respective rolling stock before Okayama arrival.
Split up can go out to a home and visit. But, when it's cut off, it'll depart immediately, so the person who takes Seto of Sunrise needs attention.

Split up was being seen many times so far, so without visiting this time, I got up at a little past 7 o'clock. A box lunch is received by the Niimi Station at which I arrive at 7:44.

There should be no store on the trains, well? Maybe it seemed. Well, Sunrise Izumo can receive a box lunch while taking it. You notify a home that a box lunch from box lunch shop in the Niimi Station "Osaka shop" is reserved beforehand. (For delivering it, from more than 1500 yen)

It's being used many times, so I receive a box lunch from the person who knows well safely and eat by a lounge. The very scenic place which has 8 seats of seat with a counter table in a lounge, and it's a window completely. Time of the sunrise is often crowded.

A bought box lunch, "HYUKUJUUGO Hakubi Line valiant figure box lunch". It's said that the kidney beans by which pumpkin expressed a coloring of 115 course and got on it on the pickled radish show a railroad track. A dish was abundant and was some box lunches you're eating and are enduring.

When I cross Matsue and do for a while, Shinji-ko Lake is being seen on the right side of the progressing direction. Cleaning by which Shinji-ko Lake is a room though it thinks the surface of the water which shines to shine. A make-up is also finished at an interior. It's arrival by and by in Izumo Ichi Station in a last stop.

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A broadcast in the car enters early in the morning, so the person who gets up with that thinks it's a lot. You don't come to wake you up, so a conductor will bet an alarm clock by himself neatly. I always use the timer function of iPhone.

5. It's to Izumo Taisha by Ichibata Electric Railway.

At 10:00 fixed time, I have arrived at Izumo Ichi Station. Sunrise will be sometimes delayed and be movement cancellation. When I think how to do, I'm so relieved so that it isn't rushed when it was.

I go to from Izumo Ichi Station of JR to electric railroad Izumo Ichi Station of the Ichibata Electric Railway left a little and take a train again. The Ichibata Electric Railway called a common name "When, I don't foment." is the local line where I run through Izumo city from Matsue-shi of Shimane .

While being jolted in Ichibata Electric Railway, with freeness, Izumo Taisha, with the station in I go. Torii as well as ZURARI is seen from a window at the vicinity where I have passed the way and Takahama Station. Approach to Shrine in the shrine where this is called Awazu Ino shrine (It's RIJI N which is bubble marrow.) When it's seen from outside on the train conversely, it's the strange view to which I say between the Sando when a train is running through, and is also famous as a photography spot between the railway fan.

Izumo Taisha, with the station in arrive. Very old rolling stock is exhibited next to the home in this station. "DEHANI 50 shape" is rolling stock on which I appeared by a movie "RAILWAYS". The floor in the car is boarded and a wall and a window frame are also made of a tree. The toils are laid for an overhead baggage rack neatly. The part where now also takes the baggage on the train on, an overhead baggage rack, if, I said, but you didn't come across anything in the state you net really any more completely, right?

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By Ichibata Electric Railway, from electric railroad Izumo Ichi Station, Izumo Taisha, with the station by when going, I sometimes sometimes have to change trains by Kawato Station. I'll see destination indication, check it and take it.

6. I'll come at Izumo Taisha.

I walk from the station to Izumo Taisha, and, about 5 minutes. Various gift shops and restaurants equal Sando. A suitcase is being dragged, so the baggage is left in the Coin Locker in the underground in Property as "relationship alley" in front of Izumo Taisha first. But, this Coin Locker closes in 17:00, so please be careful.

It's this time to come to Izumo Taisha, the 9th time. God in Izumo Taisha is being also deified in a household altar in a home.

"The Kamiari month" is crowded in particular in Izumo Taisha where I'm always bustling with a tourist and a worship visitor. Because October of the old Japanese calendar is usually called "October", but gods are collected in Izumo Taisha here for that, and God is absence in the other areas. Because God gathers in Izumo conversely, it's called "the Kamiari month".
By the way, the Kamiari month of 2025 is November 29-December 6.

The "two Reiji clapping curtsy" by which a visit at Izumo Taisha is a usual shrine, "two fee four clapping curtsy".

I have them do more prayer. When I apply for prayer, you can even enter in the gate (one foot gate), and it's possible to approach and visit main shrine. A person of Shinto priesthood explains variously about a building, so you can know Izumo Taisha more deeply.

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An image of rabbit is here and there in the site in Izumo Taisha, so it's also fun to look for that. There are rabbits of various poses.

7. After visiting, a food is enjoyed.

After visiting, I go near annual Izumo to eat. I'll go to the store different each time, the one visited this time has been started in a Showa early stage. I received 3 steps of Izumo local specialty "3 color Warigo" at the store even one person tends to enter. There is a lower back, and Soba Noodles feels the flavor of the Soba Noodles tightly. The soup stock passed by a round herring was also good.

It was very hot on this day, so I lay eyes on a sign as "soy sauce ice cream", and it's a place of sweets, I have plunged into "Taisha Monzen IZU, ya".

It's said that it's the ice which was made using sashimi soy sauce of the soy sauce seller who has soy sauce ice cream on a cotton highway in the Izumo city "Shigeichirou Oka store". The flavor near the Miso has a bite eye, when I eat and advance it, rather superficial soy sauce flavor is felt. I had had soy sauce ice cream at Kanazawa before, but I thought the taste depended on the special quality of the soy sauce from the place entirely.

I begin to sell all tickets for popular train on the train (mainly, JR) and sightseeing train in the whole country from 10:00am 1 month before including bed Limited Express "Sunrise". But, "railroad ticket + dish" but the travel goods which made one set aren't this limit.
I'd like to take it by all means! I'll prepare so that the train which says so can plan travel from early times and take a ticket surely at 10:00am sale date.