和田岬線に乗ってみた｜JR西日本QR2dayパスの旅｜2日目前編｜神戸市営地下鉄海岸線｜和田岬駅

和田岬線に乗ってみた｜JR西日本QR2dayパスの旅｜2日目前編｜神戸市営地下鉄海岸線｜和田岬駅

“Misato’s Travel Log” begins. Hey guys! It’s Misato. This is JR Sannomiya Station. This is the start of Day 2 of my JR West QR 2-Day Pass journey. Please subscribe to my channel. Last night, I spent the night aboard the Jumbo Ferry, arriving at Sannomiya Station at 5:30 AM. When I stepped onto the platform, the first outbound train, the 5:36 AM bound for Nishi-Akashi, arrived. It was the first train on Sunday, but the seats were almost all taken, with some standing passengers. I was looking around on my smartphone, trying to decide what to have for breakfast. At 5 AM, it’s only open 24 hours a day. I got off at Kobe Station, the second stop from Sannomiya. Today, at the start of Day 2, I’ll take the Wadamisaki Line. The Wadamisaki Line is a branch line of JR’s Sanyo Main Line, running 2.7 km from Hyogo Station to Wadamisaki Station. Today, Sunday, there’s only one train running, one in the morning and one in the evening, so I decided to arrive at Sannomiya early in the morning and head out. The transfer station for the Wadamisaki Line is the neighboring Hyogo Station, but since there’s only a five-minute turnaround time at Wadamisaki Station, I decided to take the Kobe Municipal Subway Kaigan Line to Wadamisaki Station. So, I exited the Kobe Station ticket gates and headed to the subway station. Exit the central ticket gate and take the south exit on the right. The subway station near Kobe Station is called Harborland Station. From here, I headed to the subway station. Since it’s not operated by JR West, I used my ICOCA card. (Harborland station sign) I boarded the 6:02 AM train bound for Shin-Nagata. Wadamisaki Station is the second stop from the 6:02 AM Harborland Shin-Nagata train, and I got off there. The Kaigan Line train is a small subway car using a linear motor. Kobe is working hard to become a city that’s easy to raise children in. Incidentally, Kintetsu is contracted to handle station operations for the Kobe Municipal Subway. Kintetsu’s job site showed job openings. I took the elevator to ground level. It was light outside, but it was just a light rain. This is what the station area looked like. Looking at the map, JR Wadamisaki Station seemed to be nearby. I walked to the right and there it was. It was a dead-end track, like this. There ‘s a Family Mart next to the station . Unlike JR Wadamisaki Station, it’s an unmanned station with no ticket gates or ticket machines. There’s the stop sign at the end of the track, as seen earlier. And here’s the timetable. Trains run in the morning and from the evening to the night, with a fairly frequent schedule on weekdays, but fewer on Saturdays, and one train each in the morning and evening on Sundays. It’s 6:20 AM. I still have over an hour until my next train. At Hyogo Station, there’s a 24-hour Yoshinoya where I could have breakfast, but I missed my schedule a bit. If I continued to Hyogo Station, had breakfast, and then returned to Kobe Station to take the subway, I would have about 30 minutes to get to Wadamisaki. So, I bought some bread at the Family Mart I’d seen earlier and ate breakfast standing up at this station, which has no benches. Wadamisaki Station has a rather interesting station structure , with several staircases leading directly out from the side of the platform . By the way, Wadamisaki Station accepts IC cards, but there are no automatic ticket gates; you have to tap your card at the automatic ticket gates at Hyogo Station. Even after finishing my bread breakfast, I still had about 50 minutes to spare, so I walked around the area. I hoped I wouldn’t look like a suspicious person walking around the station at this time of day on a Sunday morning (lol) . I stopped by the grounds of Wadamiya Shrine, which is visible from the station. Leaving the shrine behind, I headed back to the station. Finally, it was approaching time for my Wadamisaki Line train. The return train to Hyogo arrived. There were no advertisements inside the train. Most of the passengers were probably there to ride the Wadamisaki Line. Since this line caters to commuters working for companies around the station, this is probably what it looks like on Sundays when the companies are closed. The train departed Wadamisaki Station at 7:29 AM. This is the railroad crossing we just crossed. We didn’t increase our speed much and continued on to Hyogo at this speed. Just to the left of the crossing, we noticed what appeared to be blocks, which appear to be the remains of the platform at the now-defunct Kanebo-mae Station. Soon we crossed a short iron bridge, the Wada Swing Bridge. This river is called the Hyogo Canal, and this bridge was apparently built as a swing bridge to allow boats to pass through. It was Japan’s oldest and first moveable railway bridge, but the swing mechanism has been removed and it no longer rotates. As the tracks veer left, on the left is the Kawasaki Hyogo Factory, where railcars are manufactured. Further ahead, we meet the rails that appear from the left. From here, completed cars are towed by locomotives to their destination railway companies. The train (Class A transport) creaks as it turns a sharp curve. The JR Kobe Line comes into view. Visible one level below the JR Kobe Line is the track where new cars bound for Class A transport from the factory pass, and where Wadamisaki Line cars return to the depot. We pass through a scissors crossing (double-track crossing), and soon arrive at the Hyogo Station platform. The track on the right changes direction here, so perhaps it’s a turning track for reconnecting the locomotive that brought the new cars? So, we arrive at Hyogo Station in just over four minutes. (The sign indicates a train being sent out, so we’ll probably enter the depot.) Walking down the corridor beyond the platform, I see a sign explaining how to use the Wadamisaki Line. It says to buy tickets here after getting off the train at Hyogo Station. This is the ticket machine. I use my JR West QR 2-day pass to pass through the ticket gate. By passing through this gate, I’m considered to have entered through the Wadamisaki Station ticket gate. The ticket gate for the Wadamisaki Line, seen from the JR Kobe Line side. This is probably because there are no trains until the evening. All ticket gates are now closed. The ticket machine, originally intended for Wadamisaki Station, has been moved to Hyogo Station, so passengers disembarking at Hyogo Station who are paying for additional fares are being warned not to use it. Hyogo Station was elevated in 1930 (Showa 5). It exudes a Showa-era retro-modern atmosphere. Leaving the Hyogo Station ticket gates, the atmosphere of the early Showa era is still clearly present. And so, my ride on the Wadamisaki Line came to an end. I’m sure I’d ridden this train once before when it was a passenger train, but I have no recollection of it, so it felt like I was riding it for the first time. I probably rode it from Hyogo Station to Wadamisaki Station and then turned around immediately. Well, my journey on the second day of my JR West QR 2-Day Pass continues, but for now, this video will end here. Please look forward to the next video. Thank you for watching until the end. Please subscribe to my channel. I’d also appreciate a rating.

JR西日本QR2dayパス 2日目の朝は、和田岬線に乗ってきました。

■https://youtu.be/becbjXnIWtY (1日目の動画)
■https://youtu.be/31A8_NcSaGs (2日目後編の動画)

■https://youtu.be/EmoFZbh8rtI (ロフト個室でふね泊)

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