1. With a sightseeing train?

By the way don't you think they may not be able to take a sightseeing train by themselves? Well, even one person can take most sightseeing trains. (There is sometimes also a train of setting of more than 2 people.)

I came to like a sleeper train first, and it was a railway fan, but next it was a sightseeing train that I found interest. The one as a sightseeing train by which a sleeper train met death and elaborated ideas nationwide simultaneously with that was born. There can't be no hammers in the sightseeing train by which I who likes to eat very much am with a meal.

The one visited this time is Kyushu. All D&S (the design and story) is called by a sightseeing train in Kyushu a train, and many trains which made the history in an area along a railway line (story) and the elaborate interior (the design) etc. the individuality run. I also take quite luxurious sightseeing train "some trains" by the inside and travel Kyushu.

Now, they took an airplane from Tokyo and came to Hakata Station early in the morning. "Some trains" depart here.
Some trains began to run, and I took it with my friend in October, 2015 which is immediately. "Some trains" were for the first time for taking "sightseeing train with a meal" actually.
I travel alone this time. In what kind of travel is it the one it'll be or the pleasure?

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You can reserve a seat on some trains from HP easily. Travel for a sightseeing train will arrange other transportation after reservation on the sightseeing train is suppressed first.

2. Designed one is Mitooka Eiji.

Some trains came into a Hakata Station home. A gold train has not been judged by anything but this train.
2 cars of rolling stock is organization, car 1, table seat rolling stock and car 2 are private room rolling stock. The ceiling as well as furnishings in a seat and a table and a floor are small for car 1, the design is closely. If they "are the furnishings from which this train moves", a sigh has gone out to interior just like European luxury Restaurant.

My seat is private room rolling stock in car 2. A private room for 2 people (It's possible to use 1 person.) is arranged respectively on the window side in left and right, and I have only 1 private room for 1 people. TOBIRA is a blindfold by the set child workmanship.
When taking it with my friend for the first time when saying so, it was private room rolling stock. I think if it's one person, the private room may be able not to worry about an eye around and to take it.

It's Mitooka Eiji with the Dawn design that I dealt with the design of this train. Mr. Mitooka takes charge of most sightseeing trains of JR Kyushu. Aren't there a lot of people who know the design with the feature, either?

Now, a train departs by and by. The crew will ring a bell and inform me in case of departure.
I stand elegantly and that have to make the behavior the train full of dignity, too, a back extends. I felt like becoming "princess" by a cartoon 10 years before, and that took some trains, it had been drawn, but that case's feeling was remembered.

When TOBIRA of the set child was opened, a luxurious room appeared. Mr. Mitooka is also designing these fabrics.
When I sit down, you ask a welcome drink which you'd like, orange juice or sparkling wine. I have a brochure about a producer of the menu table, a container and the ingredients on the table, so SHI, when, I waited while doing and reading that.

By the way, the set child can hold by such clasp. An attachment, each is elaborate, isn't it? The set child may open and it's all right to finish. When bringing me a dish, you open and serve, so I'll worry about it, relax and spend.

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It doesn't stop at a seat, but when I see the design here and there in the car and don't go around on foot, it's wasteful.

3. A meal comes out for a course.

The first drink was being carried. Sparkling wine as well as I. It changes with spring, summer, autumn and winter, but a course menu on some trains is a winter tour this time.
It's an owner chef of Restaurant "NARISAWA" in Tokyo Minamiaoyama and Narisawa way Hiroshi chef that I'm dealing with a course menu. You take charge of cooking from some train service at that time.

The appetizer on which I appeared without a limit is the title to which I say "with night when a star falls, Nagasaki prefecture tuna, salad of Hanano rape and Miyazaki caviare". The vegetables removed by the shape of the pretty star and the caviare brilliant between it seem to be a starry sky. Eaten one receives wasteful..., thinking as..., oh, it's done!

It's a course, so timing is seen, and a dish is being carried. A drink is itself, the, every time, I speak, and a dish is the timing which has come, and asks.
Liquor and a soft drink are included in the charge, so a drink asks and is extraordinary. I'll make it only the amount which can be accepted of course.

Next I was getting a served fish dish ready in the kitchen where car 1 is on the side. A warm dish is also offered by some trains.
That it's really wonderful to say moreover that warm food can be served with a dish of pottery by sightseeing train. A big kitchen isn't in the car and would I be able to imagine difficulty of using a dish of pottery in the car where I shake? I also admire such place as well as the exterior and interior.

The next is a fish dish. And all together, white wine was ordered. The design of the dish is the shadow in the bottom, seems and is beautiful.
"Internal organs of fish also use sauce of bouillabaisse." if, the crew told me. When a dish has carried like usual Restaurant, you explain one by one. An aftertaste was light and very very good in this source and a thick one! It was to the extent I'd like to have a second helping.

Wine, please, if, it can flow into a glass at the place this. A mark on the train in a glass. Each is producer's making by hand in Kyushu for a dish and cutlery.

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Of the dish the appearance and the taste can enjoy, variously. Be absorbed, the delicious taste of the travel on the luxurious sightseeing train.

4. It's satisfied with a dish, stopping over.

Now, in the Tanushimaru Station by which some trains are the way, SHI, when, it's done and it stops. Everyone gets off here and takes a walk through the station. This station is the station with the very original shape of the poncho. I represent a poncho from the face and from the home side.
Because there is "poncho legend" in this land. Good swimmer's image is installed in everywhere in a downtown and. The "poncho Ramen Noodles" sold to commemoration at the station was bought for a gift.

Ten meat dishes which return to a train were being carried. The multicolored vegetable cored roundly is beautiful. And Beef Tongue was very soft and broke directly by a spoon. Surprisingly, it's said that they're also boiling for 4 hours.
This will be red wine as expected. This time is tasted while drinking while eating slowly.

There seemed to be time a little to a dessert, so I go out to an expedition in the car. The scenery by which the one I like for some trains most suits a wall in this car 1. Right stained glass and the set child suit the curved surface of the left shiny wall and are crowded. It's really beautiful, isn't it? Every time I pass, photograph is taken.

Kyushu railroad in at that time ordered from these train and 1906 in the United States actually, but a luxurious passenger car of the illusion to which the chance to play an active part wasn't given (common name "some trains") is origin.

Mr. Shintaro Hara called "God of a railroad model" makes the model later. They were the "some trains" now that Chairperson Toshihiko Aoyagi of JR Kyushu who saw that at a field railroad model museum got an impression, requested design layout from Mitooka Eiji and made actually.

Now, a dessert is "Fukuoka , well, oh, followed strawberry, RIKOTTAPANKEKI". Pie and powdered sugar with the shape of the snow make them think of a snow scene. The strawberry is superficial, pancakes are sweetness humbleness. I received with coffee.

5. I'm surprised at service of surprise!

More mini sweets comes out behind the dessert by some trains. So surprise.
Surprisingly, you celebrated a birthday! To a handwritten card. This is surprise.

Well, there is a space which describes whether there are any special celebrations in a remarks column in case of an application. When the memorial day is written there, you seem to do such service.
It was written in particular in case of me, but I seem to have seen and have celebrated a frame in a date of birth. Because a birthday was 1 week ago, I was really happy.

A train has arrived at Yufuin station in a last stop, being reluctant to part. Travel for about 3 hours ends with this. The magic which was princess feeling will come undone. Yes, it was fun.

There is a footbath at Yufuin station, so I buy and enter a footbath ticket at the desk of the station. Some trains which stop were seen from a footbath. SHI, when, it was done and it was flooded with reverberation. (A footbath blocks at present with station building construction. It's expected to open around winter in 2026.)

6. I take a walk through a tsubo highway of hot water to the gold scale lake.

I put the baggage in the cabinet in Yufuin station and take a walk through a tsubo highway of hot water to Yufudake. I spent my pocket money on the way and "Yufuin gold prize croquette". Black pepper was effective and was a croquette of the food texture made TORO. There were also many stores where a line is done in a tsubo highway of hot water besides here, and I was bustling with a tourist from Taiwan in particular.

I arrive at a gold scale lake on foot for about 40 minutes. It was good, dispelled and windless, so the sky seemed and was a reflection in the water in a lake. SHI, when, if it could be done and seen, and it was made baud, a fog set in a little on the lake.
An excellent morning mist has been seen at a gold scale lake in Yufuin winter early morning before. A gold scale lake has high water temperature because hot spring is flowing, and fog occurs by the temperature difference on a cold weather day, and that's a landmark. It was seen and was lucky.

Now, I go back the way where I have come and check in at an inn in Yufuin. It'll face Beppu tomorrow.