Itaya Station - Yonezawa

A noisy station with no people. If the roof is ringing, it is the sound of a monkey. When I was still standing, I was watching the monkeys rather than the monkeys. You can also enjoy creating a unique station covered with a roof.

I thought the Shinkansen was extremely easy to shoot. However, although I passed the Shinkansen here, I was speeding up a little toward Fukushima.

Old Itaya Station. It has been closed since I visited for the first time, and when I visited for the first time in seven years, the momentum of the trees was terrible, so that the rails and sleepers became invisible, the power of nature was amazing. A little away from the station, which is newly built but forgotten.

I went to Yamagata Prefecture, Ou Line, Semi-Hikyo Station, Itaya Station. Itaya Station is a station building that used to be a switchback at the beginning of the Itaya Pass. This station is, of course, an unmanned station, a heavy snowfall area in winter, and the platform of the station building has a snow shed, a roof dedicated to the event of a snowstorm. Until near the middle of autumn, there are many insects at night, so if you don't like insects, we recommend you to stop by during the day. You can go from Yonezawa Station for 330 yen. By all means, it's a station you'll want to visit.

A trip around the old switchback station Itaya station was the next stop after Toge station. There are private houses, private shops, and a post office around the station, and it was the most open of the four stations I visited this time. (Although there was still a sense of seclusion ...) The road leading to the station building was paved, but there is a car stop and you can only enter on foot. A station building covered with snow sheds that will be visible after a while This atmosphere is irresistible. It's like a secret base, and it surely ignites the hearts of boys in the world. You can enter the station building without an admission ticket. There is even a waiting room like a log house, and you can wait inside, but there was no vending machine. Please note that the down line platform must cross the track. The station platform was impressive because the Shinkansen (Yamagata) passed through it. I met a monkey many times on the way, but is there a lot of inhabitants around here? It ’s the flip side of being so deep in the mountains, Akaiwa Station, which was visited in late April 2021 but has already been abandoned, has disappeared from the station name display version. (It was replaced from above with Niwasaka station)

Railway remains such as switchbacks are famous. I am not familiar with railways, so I will review Itaya Station from another perspective. Itaya Station was used to walk the Itaya Highway, which once connected Yonezawa and Fukushima. It is a simulated experience of transportation in the Edo period while taking a detour from Itaya Station to Minami-Yonezawa Station (for convenience). It is said that the area north of the Yonezawa Domain changed from Kaminoyama via the Ushu Highway, but only the Yonezawa Domain crossed the rugged mountain and passed through this Itaya Highway. In the Meiji era, the Itaya Kaido was completely declining as a result of the rapid development of the Kuriko Tunnel by the Oni Prefectural Ordinance Mishima Michitsune and then the opening of the Ou Main Line. It is still used as a prefectural road mainly to go to Yonezawa Hachiyu, but it is completely closed in winter due to the excessive amount of snow. There is even a stone monument enshrining the sledding of sledding along the way. In addition, the road from Itaya Station to the neighboring Akaiwa Station is cut off by Maekawa. The abolition of the Itaya Highway is inevitable, and the traffic between Yonezawa and Fukushima has evolved into the Tohoku Chuo Expressway via the Kuriko Tunnel / National Route 13 and the Mini Shinkansen via the Yamagata Line conventional line. This is the reason why the history of transportation between Yonezawa and Fukushima is particularly high in Japan for both railways and roads. Finally, I would like to introduce the "Line of Duty Death Monument" found in the parking lot near Itaya Station. This is the story of a man named Sojuro Nakazawa, who spared his life and fulfilled his responsibilities for the development of the railway. Below, I will write the original text with punctuation marks (furigana) added, so please keep that brave figure in mind. "On November 22, 1947, the late Sojuro Nakazawa, the mayor of the Itaya Substation of the Japanese National Railways, became the conductor himself and was transporting the steel materials for the Fukumai Line electrification work on a trolley, and the slope became steep. Suddenly, the brakes broke down and I felt a danger, so I got off my subordinates, and I was alone on the trolley and tried to stop, but I couldn't help and finally escaped. He slammed into a work trolley under construction in the Kankanezuido and grabbed the brake handle, and achieved a fierce slaughter. His strong sense of responsibility is us. It is a model of the above, and a monument is erected on the sword (here), and its virtues are preserved for a long time. Showa era November 1945 Tateyuki Founder Ichigoro Takagi All outside volunteers " Photographing month September 2nd year of Reiwa

Personally, is it easier to take pictures of trains than Toge Station? ?? Even though it's a quiet station, why doesn't it make a mechanical noise (Vienna)? When I looked around, it was the sound of the surveillance camera moving (^. ^;) I don't know, but can I control it remotely? ??