After Kawagoe, I stopped by Omiya to visit the Railway Museum on my way back to Tokyo
To get to the museum, you have to take a short 2mins ride on New Shuttle Line from Omiya station to Tetsudo Hakubutsukan (Onari) station (180yen).
The Railway Museum's website: http://www.railway-museum.jp/
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| Walking from the JR Omiya station to New Shuttle's Omiya station. |
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| New Shuttle's Omiya station. Taking a short 2mins train ride to the Railway museum |
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| New Shuttle Line's train. |
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| Walkway from Tetsudo Hakubutsukan station to the Railway Museum. |
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| Admission pass. 1000yen for adult. (500yen for children, 200yen for young children) |
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| Railway museum's Entrance Hall |
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| Inside the Railway museum. The turntable will be in operation daily at 12noon and 3pm. |
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| Seating area facing railway tracks where you can watch trains (including Shinkansen) pass by. |
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| The view from the seating area. |
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| 1 of the cafe at the Railway museum |
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| Another cafe inside the Railway museum |
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| Train simulators. These are extremely popular and slots for these usually gets filled out pretty fast. |
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| Museum shop selling lots of train related products |
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| Suica penguin |
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| An Ekiben store at the Railway museum selling Ekibens. Ekibens are bento sets people bring to eat onboard long train rides. |
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| Ekibens on sale |
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| There's a stationary train where you can eat the ekiben you bought. |
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| Ekiben |
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| Ok, time to head back. Taking the New Shuttle back to Omiya again. |
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| Saw this Shinkansen themed playground at Railway Museum on my train ride back to Omiya station. |
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| At Omiya station, waiting for train to go back to Tokyo. |
To get from Omiya back to Tokyo (Shinjuku), just take either the JR Saikyo line or the JR Shonan-Shinjuku line (450yen, about 35mins journey).
