Itoigawa Staton, Itoigawa. Transitioning from a single-car train to the elevated Hokuriku-Shinkansen line, before proceeding to Kurobe-Unazukionsen Station.

Naoetsu Station skybridge, after leaving an intercity train to board a coastal village connection with the Echigo Tokimeki Railway Nihonkai-Hisui Line, on a single-car train to Itoigawa Staton in Omachi.

These amazing little trains were courtesy of typhoons, which had flooded the Shinkansen holding yards, and their new trains, servicing a leg of our journey.

Drone Racing, Final Day.

Heats:

Finals:

Awards:

Family Tryouts:

A first experimental attempt at Astro-landscape photography.

Met a friendly and photogenic adolescent duck while walking by the river.