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For traveling information, here is the wind-bell decorated train that run in the northern part of Kanto (approximately 100km north of Tokyo). This train runs between Kiryu and Maebashi in Gunma prefecture. The website of this train service company is at http://www15.wind.ne.jp/~joden/, but once again it's only in Japanese. This is a very local train. It's so local that I don't think any English written guidebook pick up this wind-bell train.
To visit there, take Tobu express train from Asakusa station in Tokyo and transfer at Akagi station. It is about two hours trip from Asakusa.
Wind-bell is usually used for feeling freshness in humid summer in Japan. It's very interesting that they attach so many wind bells on the ceiling of train cars so as to make them ring as they run.
Sorry to say, the wind-bell train service ended at the end of August but should be again next summer.
I have uploaded the movies. I hope you will find them enjoyable.
Thank you!
- Ken
