This year there is also the operation of the Oigawa Railway “Little Train Thomas”
Among the very popular characters “Little Train Thomas”, the steam locomotive running in the real posture is the Oe River Line of the Okayama Railroad (Shizuoka Prefecture), traveling between the new Jintu Station and the Chitose Station The The “Little Train Thomas”, which was run in 2014, was added in the 2015 “Little Train James” and the bus “Barti” in 2016! This time the author took the 5-year-old son with a “Little Train James” nice trip.
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Shuttle in the green of the Thomas train – James
June 17, 2017 began to run the Thomas. To run till October 9 (Monday and Sunday) for 76 days (180 shifts). July 22 (Saturday) begins with the summer limit of the “James train” run until August 28 (Monday). The Kanaya Station – the distance between the Senzu Station stations is 3,000yen for Adults 3 000 yen, children 1 500 yen. The trip is a “Battie Bus” and the rest of the trip is take the “Little train Thomas”.
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Daejeon Railroad “Day out with Thomas 2017
6:30 am starting from Shinjuku, 10 o’clock to the new Jingu Valley Station. Station has long seen a lot of children, see the real version of the Thomas train “James”, “Bata” all super jump.
The little Thomas train enter the Kanaya Station on the platform
After the completion of the connection to the Ten Thousand Station, the important role of the “Thomas” train, Sir Topham Hatt,he talked with local children and let the station become lively! We got 10 o’clock 38 minutes into the train of Thomas.
Thomson small train to thousands of station starting Hello! After 11 o’clock began to use lunch, although it is earlier than usual lunch time, but when you open a small train lunch, everyone is surprised again and again ~ very excited!
Little train Thomas’s lunch box is 950 yen
In the Little train Thomas:
From the window you can see the green surrounded by the scene, Shizuoka’s tea field with the vast mountains and rivers of the vast beauty of the river. Sunny when the color of the river is also beautiful scenery. Suddenly the bus “Barti” can be seen along with the train lanes they see, and it is a pleasure.
Thomas Timetable
2017 Tomas train tickets purchased by LAWSON
Fares for Steam Locomotives, Thomas the Tank Engine and James
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For a Steam Locomotive ride, you are required to pay the express fare as well as the train fares e.g. a single trip on a Steam Locomotive from ShinKanaya Station to Senzu Station will be 1,720 yen + SL Express 800 yen = 2,520 yen
※Thomas and James run for a limited time
Other Fares
Disabled passengers and carers can travel half price with a disabled persons card.
Additional trains will run during busy periods
During busy periods (Spring/Autumn) we run additional trains. Express tickets (Adult: 150 yen / Child: 80 yen) are required.
Photo and Source: Oigawa Railway kyodo news