Exploring Japan’s Unknown Train Stations Near Tokyo

Exploring Japan’s Unknown Train Stations Near Tokyo

all right good morning today i’m here at tsuri station which is in the yokohama area to ride a local jr train line called the tsunami line i heard that this train line has so many interesting train stations so in this video i’m going to be exploring around some of them it’s a oneman train heading to hamakawasaki look at that gap between the platform and the train it’s quite big oh yeah you can you can definitely fall inside there if you let your guard down i found a really interesting sign how to get off the train as the instruction of the crew wonder when you would do this all right then the door just closed the tudami line is actually pretty interesting it splits into a few branches and each one ends in a totally different spot today i’m checking out three stations along the line i wanted to go to more but it’s kind of hard since the trains barely come at first glance the time table looks fine it comes about once every 20 minutes but if you look closer there’s a small kanji above each time that shows where the train actually ends and most of them only go as far as hamakawasaki station or musashiishi station i actually wanted to go to one more station called okawa which is known to be one of the more rural looking ones on the line but trains only stop here three times a day during the weekend which is 7:12 a.m 7:52 a.m and 5:40 p.m so i couldn’t really go to this one this time oh okay i don’t have to press the button yeah we’ll say bye to this one for now how many cars is it that is more cars so i’m here at koko station and i actually been here for a video before that was the video of me heading to umishi shiba station and when i saw the comment section of that video there are people saying interesting facts about the station so i was like “oh i didn’t know that.” the station over here so far just looks like a normal station right but once you go down here it’s going to feel like it’s stuck in the past cocoo is unmanned train station so there’s these icy thing okay and look at that jeez it’s like it probably doesn’t look that mysterious now because it’s 1:16 p.m but imagine coming here at night this area used to be a shopping district look at this look at how old these buildings structure look feels like i’m in like a haunted house and this is a restaurant is this still what is that oh it’s a bird there’s a lot of people with the big camera i think this is the exit one of the exits i’m looking at the station from this angle and look how beat up it looks okay this is the other side of this train station there’s the regular jr sign coco station okay i think these are it i think these are like the bullet holes from world war ii oh my god look these are it too right like this one this one this one oh look there’s so many of them history oh there’s some over here too there’s one over there one over there i didn’t know there’s so many of them is this it too oh my god the word of this video is oh my god i’m very sorry i also heard that the bathroom here is so retro here it is but i have to make sure no one’s in it because uh let me make sure is no one using it okay no one’s using it all right so this is a shared bathroom so meaning that both men and women can use this bathroom i don’t know if this type of bathroom was uh normal back in the days but it is a urinal here and then the japanese style looking bathroom here the toilet is not the cleanest so i feel like most people would not use this the last spot i want to check out is one of the exits of this train station i saw it on a video called nikonabi or something i’ll put the link of their channel in the description but this is one of the train exits it doesn’t look that interesting getting out of it but if you turn around like this yeah the fact that this is the entrance of the train station is absolutely wild it feels like i’m entering a place that i’m not supposed to like 100% not supposed to damn and here you go there’s a bird’s nest over there oh it’s cute it’s not a pigeon i love non-pigeon birds all right so this is cocoo station for you i’m filming this on a weekend but it’s not that crowded so i think this would be a good place to explore around see what a train station that’s living in the past is like and i’m going to be heading over to the next station one the next station is ji5 [Music] the next station is hanakaseni j i8 the door is in the right side of the open attention please all passengers with the sutka or other ic fair cards wishing to transfer to the number line at havoc do not scan your card in the ticket gate scanners when transferring so i got off at hama kawasaki station and this what the vibes around the station looks like yeah there’s not much around here other than factories so you probably seen these platform signs uh in the jr line these are the modern ones i found a very retro looking one and it’s this one over here yeah look at that i like this one better one cool thing about this train station is that you can see freight trains over here uh you can’t really see it that clearly over here ah dang it can you see it not really i have to go more over there there’s also a train station for the jr nambood line and they have a very interesting rule when it comes to transferring between these two j lines on this station they do have these ic car readers over here so i heard from the announcement that if you want to transfer from the tsunami line to the number line don’t tap your ic card to this reader so that makes me wonder where the heck is the train station or the train platforms for the number line start saying you have to turn right over here okay now what over here oh what’s this hamakawasaki station for the namboo line the reason why the station is different from the namboo line and the tsudumi line is because tudami line wasn’t a jr train before it used to be run by this private railway company i forgot the name of it but then jr acquired it this is the platform for the nambble line so we should be able to see the nambu line maybe soon and then the tracks over there i think that’s for the freight trains freight trains cargo trains whatever you call it this is the time table for the nambu line for the shik and the hama kawasaki route this one is like a separate route from the main namba line route the train comes like once every 40 minutes during the weekend and the next one is coming at 217 p.m which is nice because it is 2:13 i don’t know if you can see but it’s 2:13 right now oh this is it it’s a oneman train there’s only two cars and the train model is different from the one i took in my shortest train line video the end destination for this is shitta station uh it sounds like the sword and the direct translation for this kanji is but and hand so yeah ass hand station so yeah these are the train tracks for the nambu line and these are the tracks for the cargo trains and you can see over there it says jr kamotu so kamotu is cargo i think this is called the tokaido kamotuen the tokaido cargo train line i want to see a train pass by but the problem is that i don’t know what time it’s coming if anything i’ll know it’s coming soon if i hear the railroad crossing sound but then at the same time that can also be for the nambu line that comes once every 40 minutes so i think i’ll wait for about 10 to 15 minutes and if it doesn’t come then i’ll just give up and go to the last train station uh you may be wondering i’m playing another clip of the namboo line leaving that’s because uh i was waiting for 40 minutes to see if a cargo train will come unfortunately uh it didn’t come i think i’m going to give up and go to the last train station i want to go to on the tsunami line the last place i want to go to is the end station of the main tsunami line but the next train heading there is going to come at 4:03 which is about an hour from now i looked up on google maps it’s saying that it’s faster to walk there it’s about a 33 minute walk okay go across this big crossing yeah this is all for the cargo trains look at that it’s just like it’s hard to see from here but it’s mostly factories feels like i’m at a museum like a factory museum do people live here under this bridge i hear i hear something well i don’t want to accidentally film them so i’m going to just keep walking wow look at that [Music] there’s a bike without a front wheel and two coffee there is a railroad crossing over here but it seems like these tracks have not been used for a long time [Music] just going to walk alongside it i wonder what’s on that side then oh it’s closed off see there’s these railroad crossings but guess they’re not using this anymore now it’s just a bicycle parking lot i’m pretty sure it doesn’t stop those are the tracks beyond these bushes and we are here at this station called shawa what’s past here is seems to be the entrance for this factory so i don’t think i can go this way but i can go over here to the station a quick fact about this station the name showa is not named after the era showa but it’s named after a company or a factory around here called showa look at that big pile of sand okay i think we’re nearby the station okay yeah we are here the station called oimachi station this is also an unmanned train station that is known to have some special guest that’s chilling around the station oh maybe it’s not the right weather let’s let’s go look around oh wow there’s a turtle though hello you’re alive right you’re real right oh wait it’s there’s two of them okay they’re not doing that it kind of look like it sorry to bother you old maji station oh it says jr kamu cargo train right here is the train station sign so what i’ve been trying to find are cats apparently this train station is known to have wild cats just chilling around the area but i haven’t been able to find one yet i think it could be because of the weather it’s also kind of humid today so maybe that’s why from what i saw in other people’s videos and blogs seems like cats will be chilling around the stairs area the next train is coming in about 25 minutes so i have a little bit of time just to relax over here and maybe find a cat [Music] okay and the tsunami line i have to take to go back is here but unfortunately i did not see any cats so turi line has other

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Today I explored the Tsurumi Line in Yokohama, a short but super unique train line that most people have probably never heard of. It used to be a freight route, and honestly, parts of it still feel like that.

I started at Kokudo Station, which has bullet holes from WWII, a shared bathroom setup, and this weirdly narrow entrance that feels stuck in time. Then I went to Hama-Kawasaki, where transferring between lines means literally exiting the station and walking to another one. The last stop was Ogimachi Station, a quiet end-of-the-line place with some friendly cats hanging around.

If you’re into lesser-known train stations in Japan or just like that gritty, industrial vibe, this line’s got a lot of hidden stories. Hopefully this makes you want to check out some of these places yourself.