Cycling Tourism

The Association of Japanese Geographers, Spring 2019 in Senshu University

Mar 21, 2019

I attended the Outreach Symposium, many my friends are on the stage. The panelists are Mr. Minagawa, Grand Master of Suribachi Society, Dr. Ota, Japan Cartographers Association, Dr. Shimada, Nishogakusha University, etc. And the chairman is Associate Professor, Hasegawa.

In the afternoon session, we did field work in Arakicho. Of course, the leader was Mr. Minagawa.

I drawed the route on the hazard map of the MLIT. This map shows the geological condition of the land.

Remains of a bridge, that the river has become a culvert.

Suga Shrine, this is the holy place of "Your Name", an animation movie. In Japanese "君の名は。". It has been released in 42 countries including Malaysia.

Yato from Shinneiji.

There were temples and shrines on the plateau, and houses of commoners in the lowlands.
The Tokyo 1/5000 survey map, 120 years ago.

A small pond at the bottom of the valley. This is the remnant of the vassal lord's garden.

Banquet after walking around town. We walked with two Malaysian guests. They are graduate students of architecture. I predict that they will start up the Suribachi Society in Malaysia (^_^)

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Saigon - My Tho, abolished railway line

Aug 16, 2014

The Saigon - My Tho railway line was inaugurated as the first train service in French Indochina in 1885. It was used after the Indo-China War, undergoing destruction and restoration until 1958.
Usually, I used the U.S. army map for an old Vietnam map. However, I only had the 1970 edition, after the line was disused. I traced the route, using a Japanese foreign country, 1/100000 scale, map printed in 1940. The railway that ran side by side on the National Highway QL1 left the road in the Cho Den river, and took a separate route.

I can definitely find the trace of the route when I look on an aerial photograph on Google.

This way, a factory siding of the right seems to be a route trace.

There might be a railroad line alongside palm trees.

The railroad line had spanned the river here, but I couldn't find the abutment pier trace.

Across the river, let's search on the opposite bank.
There is a way to draw a rail curve. Because the surrounds are ponds and damp ground, this must not have to been an abolished line trace.

Neighborhood of My Tho. The old road was an abolished line trace, but the way was wide, and I could not find the trace.

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Vietnam Sapa

Dec 7, 2013

　My journey will continue as long as there's the smile of people. (3:18)

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Vestiges of a defunct railroad in Ho Chi Minh City

Oct 14, 2013

We can see that a railroad line extended from the Saigon Station to the Ben Thanh Market in the 1/12500 map of Saigon at 1962. According to "the building guide" on the reverse side of the map, the present Saigon Station was a "Freight Station," and in front of Ben Thanh Market the station was the "Railway Station". The passenger station was in front of the market of in the inner-city.

The rotary is in front of the Ben Thanh Market.

There is a slender park ahead of there. The remains of the ancient structure of the station were not evident, but here was old Saigon Station.

The string of one-storied stores built along the curved rail bed. Surely, here is a vestige of a defunct railroad.

The depth of the stores conforms to the width of the double track.

By the rotary of 7 streets, a train ran in the alley to the front.

Saigon Station now, there is the trace of the freight station days.

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Vietnam Day11　Thach Tru - Hoi An

Oct 5, 2013

view the broad map with a meters above the sea level graph

I ride north continuously today at National highway 1. Temperature lowered very much from HCMC. The red earth spreads out, but has a feeling that the transparency of the river increased.