Zhongshan Road. Kiso Road: The old road of separate travel and snow (Part 1)

The headphone played the song "Traveling Separately" sung by Huang Lixing and Rene Liu. One chose to go to Los Angeles, and the other wanted to fly to Paris.

Ah! Scarf, did not get off the car.

Standing on the Minami Kiso platform where the limited express しなの train has left, the low temperature in the mountains, along with the cold wind and fine snow, the pressing cold hits, only then did I realize that the scarf left in the carriage has become a lost beauty . The scarf and the traveler also traveled separately.

In about an hour, the train bound for Nakatsugawa will enter the station. It's so cold, I walk around the station with an umbrella, just to drive away the low temperature that sticks to my face desperately after breaking up with the scarf. When I was waiting for the bus, I stopped in front of the sightseeing map in Minamikiso Town. I originally just wanted to step on the snow in the surrounding area, but I didn't know that I would never go back to Minamikiso Station.

After the scarf, the trip was temporarily separated from the railroad and the bus due to unplanned foot movement.

Zhongshan Road is one of the five streets prepared in the Edo period. It is also known as "Zhongxian Road" and "Zhongxian Road". Common people often call it "Kiso Road" or "Kiso Street". The main road for inland transportation with Kyoto. Compared with the famous "Fifty-Three Tokaido Roads", that is, the travels on the Tokaido Road will pass through 53 lodging towns; on the Nakasen Road, there are 69 times.

I caught a glimpse of the road sign leading to Tsumagojuku, and that was the straw that led me down the road of no return(?). Wearing only a pair of new snow boots, I walked step by step into the mountain pass where the snow was getting thicker and thicker. In the snowy weather, I have to be busy holding an umbrella, and I can't spare my hands to walk the mountain road with a trekking pole, not to mention the temporary hike on the old road. Of course, it is impossible to prepare such a thing.

The area between Tsumago Pass and Magome Pass is now part of the Shinano Nature Trail. The weather of winter and snow has never been the season for hiking. There will not be full blooming Somei Yoshino, Yae Cherry Blossoms or New Green on the side of the road, and there will be no mountain friends facing each other. "こんにちは", the houses passing by were also silent and no human voice was heard.

He couldn't tell whether it was Akita or Baichai's dog. He stared at me for five minutes in his garage. With a puzzled look, he might want to say:

who are you? What are you doing here? It is rare to encounter travelers who come to walk the trails in this season!

Walking on the trail that has not encountered pedestrians along the way, there are only my footprints on the snow. Even if there are other human footprints, they have already been covered by the recent snowfall and are almost blurred, and most of them are traces of the life of the local residents. non-travel. On the way here, there was no warning sign saying "Beware of bears". It is expected that in such a season, let alone bear tracks, the bear's hibernation is not over yet (right).

Even though the road signs clearly indicated the direction and the number of kilometers, there was a lot of snow, and the road ahead still seemed to be vast. Perhaps I fell into the Kiso River shortly after I stepped on the air. Thoughts of going back come up from time to time, but my body is very honest and continues to move forward. Now that my hair is half washed, I can only slow down and make sure that every step I take, I can continue with the real feeling of stepping on the Kiso ancient road. go ahead.

Look left and right, who am I? where am I? There are always various reasons for traveling separately from a partner: because you got separated; because you were driven by the route sign, you suddenly wanted to go on a different route; or it was possible, there was no reason at all. Therefore, I am here.

Kiso Road under the thick make-up of Bai Xue stands out against the decommissioned locomotives of the National Railways era on the SL Plaza. The D51 locomotive, nicknamed "デゴイチ", was mass-produced during the war and was widely used for freight. D51351, born in the year before the Pacific War, served in Kanazawa, Fukui and other sections of the Sea of Japan until the end of the 1960s after the war, and finally settled on the old Chuo Line between the Kiso Valley.

Infinite trains only appear in anime, and trains in reality have a time limit at the end of their service period. With the abolition of lines, the transfer of station buildings, and the popularization of electrification, the D51 steam locomotive powered by carbon water has completed the staged transportation mission of the wartime system and post-war revival, and no longer spit black and white. The smoke, galloping on the mountain line or the sea line, is gradually endowed with another static posture, displayed in museums, or in various educational and recreational places, silently telling generations of the public and railway fans that they once worked in the railway Location with travel history.

I waved my hand and said goodbye to the immortal D51351 limited locomotive. In the future, I will have the opportunity to meet the brothers and sisters of the D51 series on other paths.

(to be continued)

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