Sunday, November 16, 2014

Train thoughts

I love the way Japan does rivers.

They're always surrounded by lush green. Sometimes manicured with perfectly placed boulders for benches, sometimes wild tangles of grass and plants, sometimes miniature forests of trees and bushes. Almost always there are walkways placed to take advantage of the views, and allow access to the nature, as well as a path to flow back to concrete civilization.

The views are especially compelling when seen fleetingly out the window of a train, rushing over a bridge high above the riverbed. It never fails to make me wish to get off at the next station and wind myself back along the tracks, so that I may pause and take in the scene again at my leisure.

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