Boso Peninsula - Tateyama Sunset & Beginning the
Journey Back (Page-4) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9
As I stood on top
of the hill by Tateyama Castle, I abandoned my initial plan to only stay
long enough to take a few pictures and then go down the other side of
the hill and see what I could find there. I imagined myself missing
the sunset as I looked for... some underturmined whatever, so I decided
to just relax on the top of the hill and watch the different colors of
the departing day and approaching night....
As the last light
of day illuminated the fringes of the sky, I found my way back down the
hill and through the nighttime streets of Tateyama to the station.
And thus the train station seems particularly
warm and familiar. Trains at uncrowded times like this can feel
quite cozy. You're far less likely to be in an accident than if
you were in a car, and you can sleep, drink, eat, whatever as the trains
rolls you closer to home. So far so good... what isn't fun is when
you get used to feeling comfortable in a sparely populated late night
train, and then have to transfer at one of Tokyo's many hub stations and
complete the journey on a sardine run commuter line. Then you just
want to be home - the sooner the better! (Late at night, trains
going towards Tokyo are fine - but the ones going the other way are another
story!)
Copyright 2006 by Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon,
Images Through Glass, Tokyo
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