草軽電気鉄道三笠駅跡

* There are no station traces, so there are three ☆. The row of deciduous pine trees on Mikasa Street is very nice. Sure, there was Mikasa station here, but as you can see, there is nothing now ? There really isn't any information board, so people who don't know it don't know at all. As you can see in the photo, there is an island with a signboard of Mikasa Park, but it is not a station trace. The intersection with Hosokawa Lane (In the past, there was a big Ipponmatsu near this intersection, and this intersection was also called Ipponmatsu. The name remains as a bus stop for Kusakaru Kotsu, so you can find the location by searching on Google Map. ) To this point, there is a row of deciduous pine trees on Mikasa-dori like the central separation zone, which is a remnant of the Kusakaru Railway. The railroad was in the still high western lane. As I remember, until the 1980s, cars used only the eastern lane, which originally had a track, and from the latter half of the 1980s, I feel that the central lane for two-way carriage was drawn. In the 90's, it changed to a face-to-face traffic with a row of trees as it is now. (For some reason, the direction of Ose on the west side was forced into two lanes ?) On July 22, 1915, with the opening of the Kusatsu Karuizawa Railway's new Karuizawa and Kose (later renamed Kose Onsen), the Shojinba River opened in less than three years. It was renamed to Mikasa on June 1, 1918. It was a steam locomotive at the time of opening, so I was running with smoke. It was later renamed Kusatsudenki Railway, and all lines were electrified on November 1, 1924. The orbit that came from the 舊輕 Izawa 驛 turned westward at a stretch at this place, and there was Mikasa 驛 with a curved island platform on the girve. (Currently, the trees are lined up at the entrance of Mikasa Park, and it is a remnant of this that the connection with the road to the Shiraito Highway seems unnatural.) Then, the railroad track extended in the direction of the current Mikasa Park, leading to the next Tsurudome. By the way, the reason why I went through Tsuruzumi, which is a detour, is not only because the slope is too steep when going straight north from Mikasa to Kose Karuizawa, but also because Kasukake (currently Naka Karuizawa Station) is Kusagaru. Although he was running for the first station of the railway, he ended up next to Karuizawa, so as an alternative, he had the purpose of creating a station that was as close as possible to Karuizawa. The abandoned station was on April 25, 1960, so more than 50 years have passed. No toilet No parking