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Miniatures Adventure => Back of Beyond => Topic started by: Sakuragi Miniatures on 27 March 2025, 09:01:43 AM
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If you wanted to make a Japanese board with a train station but all you have is European or American terrain, you may already have a suitable station in your collection! A number of stations were influenced by foreign designs, so I?m sharing some I?ve been to that may spark ideas to use what?s already in your terrain closet/storage room.
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Saikai City?s Hamaderakoen Station opened in 1907, though the original building is now a historic annex. Of note, it was designed by Tatsuno Kingo who also designed Tokyo Station.
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Mojiko Station opened in 1914 and was the original terminus for Kyushu railway travel; as such it had to look appropriate for visiting dignitaries, not to mention the Emperor and Albert Einstein. Before bridges and tunnels were built, ferries crossed the Kanmon Strait from Shimonoseki to Mojiko (Moji Port), which was also part of the terminal?s importance. Along with Tokyo Station, its one of the two train stations designated an Important Cultural Property.
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This is Nagahama Station, Japan?s oldest still-standing station and it opened in 1882. Its original importance was connecting the railway with ferry service across Lake Biwa. The old station is now a railway museum and is mostly preserved as it was during the turn of the century.
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This is a scaled down replica of the stick-style Sapporo Station which was built in 1908 and lasted until around 1950. It?s the entrance to Kaitaku no Mura (Pioneer Village), a collection of preserved historic buildings from Hokkaido?s frontier past.
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I forgot to share Dogo Onsen Station; the current station is a replica of the 1911 station. This station is near one of the onsens that inspired the bathhouse in "Spirited Away." Of note, is that the original train line used tiny German trains built for intercity use, like a tram but train shaped. A replica of that can be ridden as a normal train every day!
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These posts are super interesting. Keep them coming. I look forward to my next Japan trip, maybe I can visit the Onsen station. Seems pretty unique.
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These posts are super interesting. Keep them coming. I look forward to my next Japan trip, maybe I can visit the Onsen station. Seems pretty unique.
I'm glad you're enjoying it, I want to help bring Japan to more table tops and share it's history.
Dogo Onsen Station is in Matsuyama, Ehime Pref. and that city is worth the visit! Matsuyama Castle is a beautiful and original hilltop overlooking the city, in addition to the castle there's also a garden on the grounds. It's probably the second or third best original castle after Himeji and is on-par with Matsumoto. Dogo Onsen is also one of my favorite onsens because its so old-fashioned inside and out, and the waters are great. If you've read Botchan by Natsume Soseki, that onsen is featured in it and you can visit the room Natsume used to stay in when he visited. You can read about my visit here: https://www.wayfarerdaves.com/a-holiday-in-shikoku-part-i/ (https://www.wayfarerdaves.com/a-holiday-in-shikoku-part-i/)
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Dogo Onsen
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How about this one?
Just requires an extremely patient dog parked outside.
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How about this one?
Just requires an extremely patient dog parked outside.
Thats a good one too! I don't think I've seen the old Shibuya Station before. I like the old red bricks, like Tokyo Station, but those may be too massive to recreate. Shibuya looks atleast partially doable.
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I forgot the classic, the old Harajuku Station which operated from 1924 until closing in 2020 for being too small. It's been replaced by a boring glass and steel thing. Still, it kind of reminds me of a small British station.
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In the late 19thC and early 20th C there were a lot of plans for railway stations that did the rounds internationally . A number of architectural firms seem to have sold the same plans or very nearly the same plans to a variety of clients, often far afield. Even when they weren't designed by the same architect, there was quite a bit of borrowing from other examples.
I give the example of two stations I know quite well. The first one is the Luz Station in Sao Paulo, the second is Flinders Street Station in Melbourne. They are near mirror images.
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I bought a plastic kit of the first Japanese steam train in (I think) 1/45th scale and converted it to running stock for my powered gaming table. It was an easy conversion and fun to do. The train does look British, therefore it is rather generic for either UK or some colonies.
It would perfectly suit Japanese branch lines on gaming tables for the 19th century period too, as the prototype was built in Europe and sent to Japan.
I forgot who made the kit, but probably a few are still obtainable out there.
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The engine housing was put on a Hornby 00 gauge chassis, however wheel arrangement is inverted now (original was 2-4-0):
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Foldable gaming table for generic railway action:
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Wow, that train looks very cool!
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I bought a plastic kit of the first Japanese steam train in (I think) 1/45th scale and converted it to running stock for my powered gaming table. It was an easy conversion and fun to do. The train does look British, therefore it is rather generic for either UK or some colonies.
It would perfectly suit Japanese branch lines on gaming tables for the 19th century period too, as the prototype was built in Europe and sent to Japan.
I forgot who made the kit, but probably a few are still obtainable out there.
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The engine housing was put on a Hornby 00 gauge chassis, however wheel arrangement is inverted now (original was 2-4-0):
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Foldable gaming table for generic railway action:
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I recognize that, those were built by the Yorkshire Engine Co. in England. I've seen two of them in person, one is complete with a replica carriage that it would have pulled when operations began in 1872. The engines themselves look a little different now due to an update in the 1890s. If you've an interest in trains, the first Japanese railroad was between Yokohama Station (now Sakuragicho Station) and Shimbashi Station; this train below is by Sakuragicho Station and was originally No. 10.
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Thanks for the pictures. I'm putting some generic Chinese / Japanese terrain for BoB and Pulp Alley, for c. 1880 to 1930. It's all good stuff to give me ideas. What I can't seem to find are distinctive enough buildings for the 20s / 30s.
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Thanks for the pictures. I'm putting some generic Chinese / Japanese terrain for BoB and Pulp Alley, for c. 1880 to 1930. It's all good stuff to give me ideas. What I can't seem to find are distinctive enough buildings for the 20s / 30s.
You can't go wrong with art deco!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_Deco_architecture_in_Japan (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Art_Deco_architecture_in_Japan)
I'll share photos shortly.
I'm working on an art deco "bus station" that will find itself useful as any number of buildings.
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Here are some surviving art deco buildings from the 1920s and 1930s I've seen around the country, hopefully they'll give you some ideas for your own gaming table.
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Dalian Route Warehouse No. 1 (1929)
Mojiko, Kitakyushu, Fukuoka Prefecture
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Hotel New Grand (1927)
Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture
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Kure Naval District Petty Officers' Club (1935)
Kure, Hiroshima Prefecture
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Nintendo Headquarters (1930)
Kyoto
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Osaka Gas Building (1933)
Osaka
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Shibakawa Building (1927)
Osaka
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Shimonoseki Telephone and Telegraph Office (1924)
Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi Prefecture
Currently the Kinuyo Tanaka Museum
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Tokiwadai Photo Studio (1937)
Koganei, Tokyo
Preserved at the Edo-Tokyo Tatemono architectural park
Not art deco but from the 1930s
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Hakubutsukan-Dobutsuen Station (1933)
Closed since 1997
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The Osaka Gas building is a rather elegant bit of art moderne. The Shibakawa Building looks a lot like Art Deco meets Pizza Hut.
I still can't believe that Nintendo have been knocking out consoles for that long. The Nintendo '34 eh? Comes preloaded with Super Mario Brothers and the Invasion of Manchuria. :D
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The Osaka Gas building is a rather elegant bit of art moderne. The Shibakawa Building looks a lot like Art Deco meets Pizza Hut.
I still can't believe that Nintendo have been knocking out consoles for that long. The Nintendo '34 eh? Comes preloaded with Super Mario Brothers and the Invasion of Manchuria. :D
Nintendo goes back to 1889 when they began as a Kyoto playing card maker. They were, and may still be, the biggest playing card maker in Japan.
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Did not know that. Interesting snippet of info. Probably makes them one of the oldest extant game manufacturers in the world. Not quite in the John Jaques league of old but pretty impressive none the less.
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that hotel appears to be home to the Emperor's Inquisition
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that hotel appears to be home to the Emperor's Inquisition
Gen. MacArthur stayed there on his honeymoon and again the night he arrived in Japan to begin the occupation.
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Thanks for all the pictures.
Lots of interesting buildings,
love seeing them.
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What a great thread - I really wouldn't have thought of this style of buildings in Japan.
My daughter's boyfriend recently visited Liverpool and was surprised that the dockside buildings were very similar to Shanghai.
And I have visited Hà N?i and was surprised at how Parisian many of the buildings are.
The power of colonial influence!
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Bit late to the party here, but those carriages look like the original Tallylyn railway narrow gauge coaches made by Brown Marshall, and the loco looks quite like Dolgoch, one of their original locos made by Fletcher Jennings. All date from 1866 and are still in service I think.
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What a great thread - I really wouldn't have thought of this style of buildings in Japan.
My daughter's boyfriend recently visited Liverpool and was surprised that the dockside buildings were very similar to Shanghai.
And I have visited Hà N?i and was surprised at how Parisian many of the buildings are.
The power of colonial influence!
The change in setting is what makes that kind of architecture more beautiful, that and lack of Parisians in Vietnam. I'm kidding about the Parisians. Unless you're British. Then you know how I really feel about Paris.
Japan's modernization didn't occur organically like it did in the West, so they hired foreign experts and bought the latest technology and jumped from 1603 to 1900 in about three decades. That's why there's so much foreign influence in their architecture. What's less obvious a lot of time is that the architect may be foreign or foreign-trained but the craftsmen were still Japanese and often had to use their traditional methods to recreate a foreign idea.
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I visited Japan a few years ago, and was struck by the railway staff uniforms. They looked very Edwardian, right down to the job titles on the breast pockets written in English. Seemed incongruous at the time but makes sense in light of your comments about the rapid rate of modernisation. Probably sourced from the UK, then kept as tradition.
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Best to think of it as a cultural exchange. Western inspired railway stations for Japan then decades later the daft trend of pebble gardens in the West.
Of course the subject of Japanese railways can be a fraught subject. There was a vicar in our diocese for whom it was a very fraught subject. He never forgave the Japanese for making him build them for three years of his life. On the other hand, there was a young Japanese vicar (Japanese Anglicans, yes it's an actual thing) in the same diocese. A delightful chap, he expressed the view that the Japanese sense of humour was closest to the English one.
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If that ancient Shak?ki-dog? figurine you won on eBay turned out to be a fake, Japanese train stations still have you covered. Just make sure you have the right colored LEDs. lol
"Standing a little less than 58 feet (17 meters) tall, the station's replica dog? is locally nicknamed Shako-chan. Its LED eyes blink every time a train arrives at the station, humorously dubbed the Welcome Beams. The lights were renovated in 2020 and they now contain seven colors and four patterns."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kizukuri-station
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For some reason I'm thinking the final scenes of the original Ghostbusters film. Or maybe a dose of radiation and Shako chan lives, Godzilla style.
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If that ancient Shak?ki-dog? figurine you won on eBay turned out to be a fake, Japanese train stations still have you covered. Just make sure you have the right colored LEDs. lol
"Standing a little less than 58 feet (17 meters) tall, the station's replica dog? is locally nicknamed Shako-chan. Its LED eyes blink every time a train arrives at the station, humorously dubbed the Welcome Beams. The lights were renovated in 2020 and they now contain seven colors and four patterns."
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/kizukuri-station
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I have a miniature version of the clay figure that's based on, its such a peculiar thing.
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Best to think of it as a cultural exchange. Western inspired railway stations for Japan then decades later the daft trend of pebble gardens in the West.
Of course the subject of Japanese railways can be a fraught subject. There was a vicar in our diocese for whom it was a very fraught subject. He never forgave the Japanese for making him build them for three years of his life. On the other hand, there was a young Japanese vicar (Japanese Anglicans, yes it's an actual thing) in the same diocese. A delightful chap, he expressed the view that the Japanese sense of humour was closest to the English one.
I've noticed that. Other than miniatures, I do travel and history writing. I've interviewed Japanese and Filipino civilians to tell their personal stories; I had people on one side who were offended I shared the story of a 15-year old Japanese school girl welder because of how their grandparents were treated by Japan, and then I had people offended I shared a Filipino's childhood memories which included seeing war crimes happen in front of him because they thought that I was trying to disparage Japan by digging up the past. These were the stories of civilian children in wartime and the memories, and scars, they carried with them throughout their lives.
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I should have put this here initially, as well as in railroads but I have a train station now!
This is a small Meiji-era (1868-1912) Japanese train station I commissioned from Oshiro (https://www.oshiromodels.co.uk/). The design itself is a fifth-class station, the smallest standard station design authorized in 1900 (Meiji 33). These can still be found around the country, especially on Kyushu, with most I've Seen dating from the first decade of the 20th century, though Higashi Sonogi County’s Chiwata Station was built to the pattern in 1928 (Showa 3).
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The references I gave for it are Osumi Yokogawa (1903 / Meiji 36) Station and Kareigawa Station (1903 / Meiji 36) in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture. I’m really happy with this and used it in "The Scroll" Pulp Alley scenario in the website's Pulp section.
Osumi Yokogawa Station
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Kareigawa Station
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(The photos are all mine; taken during a 2019 road trip)
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That's a gorgeous looking station both the model and the original 1:1 scale version. :-* :-*
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These are some of my favorite buildings in Japan, they have such charm to them.
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Great pics and nice work on the station.
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Great pics and nice work on the station.
Oshiro built it, I'm impressed with what he did too!
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Looking forward to seeing a suitable train parked up behind it. It really is a gorgeous build.
I wonder if any does Japanese locos in something approaching scale appropriate? I get the impression that N scale is basically the default scale for model railways in Japan, although there seems to have been a number of weirdly scaled 1/80 model kits out there in the past.
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Looking forward to seeing a suitable train parked up behind it. It really is a gorgeous build.
I wonder if any does Japanese locos in something approaching scale appropriate? I get the impression that N scale is basically the default scale for model railways in Japan, although there seems to have been a number of weirdly scaled 1/80 model kits out there in the past.
I have a 1/50 Japanese steam engine, for some reason one company makes model engines in 1/50 and that'll have to work.