For this hugely unique and interesting design, the roof is the shell and the eyes are real working clocks. This station opened in its current turtle-shaped form on 9th August 1995. If only I’d had the idea when I first got to the station!! However, one (possibly even two!) minute later and the train was still there and I did think about getting back on board but decided that having gone to such efforts, I should complete my mission as intended and see the station properly.įor the record, the failed attempt at making it look like I was kissing the turtle ( above) was taken just seconds before my train arrived so I didn’t get a second chance to try and better it. I stepped off the train and got a few shots with the train in the foreground of the station thinking that it would very soon be on its way. Kamenoko Station lies 50 kilometres north of Okayama Station (70 minutes via the JR Tsuyama Line) but I was coming down from Tottori via Chizu and Tsuyama. Having left Tottori in the early hours of the morning I was keen to get to Himeji (via Okayama Station) as soon as possible but when I knew I’d be passing through this unique looking station I just had to stop there and take some photos before taking the next train. That happened to be 50 minutes later which was far much longer than I ever needed but not too bad given the infrequency of trains in such parts of Japan. Last August I went to a couple of really interesting-looking ones up in Aomori and Akita prefectures and this is one to rival them. It seems that Japan has a fair few strangely unique train stations.
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