Keikyu Zushi line, we have come to Jinmuji station.
I can’t capture the station sign or anything, but this is the Jinbuji station. Like its neighbor Mutsu-ura, which I just boarded, it has two relative tracks.
The station ticket gate looks like this…
The “this side” of the cozy station, like Mutsu-ura, is a series of quiet residential neighborhoods on a limited flat area of hilly terrain.
This shrine was located right next to the station. This shrine is also on a hill.
View from the grounds up the stairs. The fresh greenery is beautiful.
In this photo, do you notice the Keikyu Zushi line running left and right at the foot of the hill in front of you?
I mentioned earlier that “this side” of the Keikyu line, or this side of the hill, is a quiet residential area.
What about “that side”? There seems to be a magnificent high-rise residential building on the other side of the hill….
In fact, there is another exit on the opposite side of Jinbuji Station, and a different world spreads out on “that side. Here is that exit.
This exit/ticket gate, located at the end of the upbound platform, is not accessible to the general public. You are free to cross over the railroad crossing to and from “this side” of the station, but only U.S. military personnel are allowed to enter and exit “that side” of the station.
That is right, the U.S. military facilities (housing for U.S. military personnel) are spread out on “that side” of the station.
You can catch a glimpse of the atmosphere from the platform.
I think I could have gotten a more detailed shot of the scene if I had gotten closer, but I think that’s probably not a recommended behavior, so I decided to be conservative and just go with this shot.
In order to calm this feeling of not being able to capture the “other side,” I turned my body 90 degrees and took a telephoto shot of the long uphill straightaway from the platform in the direction of Zushi and Hayama.
I was able to compress the eight cars of the Keikyu 1000 series in a straight line, and together with the line maintenance personnel who were evacuating the train, I was able to create a picture with depth, and I am happy with that. It may be wrong to take a picture of a train by following it, but it is good for me because I could not have created this composition at this place without following the train.
Now, when I looked carefully in the opposite direction toward Mutsu-ura, I found something like this about 100 meters ahead of the “ticket gate for U.S. military personnel” I mentioned earlier.
A mysterious rail line joins the Keikyu line’s upbound track from the left.
The track is narrower than the Keikyu line’s standard gauge track, and the track seems to be a three-wire track from the junction point onward.
Anyway, this completes our photo walk of the Zushi Line stations.
Before heading to the remaining unexplored stations, the next article will discuss the “three-line track crossing,” which is indispensable when talking about the Jinbuji – Mutsu-ura – Kanazawa-Hakkei section of the Keikyu Line.
Equipment used this time: K-3III, DA20-40, DA55-300PLM
