Traveling Around Matsuyama on the Botchan Train
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4ページ You can use the Botchan train to conveniently travel around Matsuyama. The train used to clatter around the city with Shiki, Soseki and many other people on board. The Botchan train was a favorite sight on the Matsuyama Plain from the old Meiji period to the middle of the Showa era. It has just been brought back to life in this 21st-century castle town. The Botchan train crossing the Present-day Ishitegawa railroad bridge on the Dogo Onsen Station Yokogawara Line around 1953. 【Botchan train and Soseki Natsume】 The name ''Botchan train'' comes from a popular novel called ''Botchan'' Where to take good photographs of the written by Soseki Natsume. It is thought that this novel is based on his Botchan train actual experiences when he took up his post as English teacher at You can see the train make an unusual turn at Matsuyama-shi Matsuyama Middle School. In the novel, there is a scene in which Station. Also at Ohtemachi Station, the intra-city streetcar Botchan, the leading character, rides on ''a small, matchbox-like train '' to railroad crosses the suburban railroad, which is quire rare in the middle school at which he was working. This is the train that we now Japan! call the ''Botchan train.'' Dogo Onsen Spa Russian 14 Main Building 196 Isso-an 13 Cemetery 12 18 Ishiteji Botchan 37 Dogo Onsen Station gizmo clock Temple 317 15 Shiki Memorial Museum Dogo Koen Park 16 (Yuzukijo site) Matsuyama Sogo Koen 7 (Park Complex) Matsuyama Castle Komachi 1 9 Shiki-do Station ●Koshin-an Gudabutsu-an About 5 minutes on foot from Iyotestu Matsuyama- 5 shi Station or about 6 km from Matsuyama IC. 2 4 Bansui-so Shiki-do, located within the premises of Matsuyama Castle Ninomaru J Ohkaido Station Shoshuji Temple in Suehiromachi, was R Historical Garden built from the former residence of Shiki M a Ehime Prefectural Art Museum t Masaoka. Inside the Shiki-do, a great s u y 6 number of his writings and personal a effects are exhibited. There is also a m a stone monument closely associated with S t a Kyoshi Takahama, a haiku poet. t i o Matsuyama is well known for its haiku n 56 poems/poets. There are also graves of many generations of the Masaoka family. Matsuyama-shi Station 9 Shiki-do 11 (Shoshuji Temple) 33 Shiki Masaoka haiku stone Botchan Train Ticket Office monument (JR Matsuyama ・SHOP Botchan train (inside Dogo Onsen Station) Ekimae [Station Plaza]) ・Iyotetsu (Iyo Railway) Ticket Center (inside Matsuyama-shi Station) ・Iyotestu Overseas Travel Center (1st Floor of Iyotetsu Hall This is a haiku poem he wrote when he returned to Matsuyama, in front of Ohkaido Station) his hometown. His feelings toward his hometown are well ・Matsuyama City Tourist Information Center (inside JR expressed in the relaxed and leisurely flow of the words. Matsuyama Station) 10 Big Ferris Wheel: ''Kururin'' Very near Iyotetsu Matsuyamashi Station or about 6 km from Matsuyama IC. 12 Isso-an 13 Russian Cemetery "Kururin" is a big Ferris wheel About 8 km from Matsuyama IC. About 15 minutes on foot from Iyotetsu built on top of Iyotetsu Shimaya This is where Santoka Kiyamachi Station or about 8 km from Department Store. During the Taneda, a wandering poet Matsuyama IC. daytime it commands a panoramic who wrote free rhythm Many Russian prisoners of war were view of Matsuyama, and at night 11 Ohkaido, Gintengai haiku, ended his life. He kept in Matsuyama City after the the city lights are truly beautiful. This is one of the largest shopping avenues in loved the hot spring and Japanese-Russo War. They were warmly It has become a modern symbol western Japan, stretching from Matsuyama- sake at Dogo Onsen Spa. taken care of not only by the military of Matsuyama. shi Station to the Matsuyama Castle ropeway personnel stationed at the detention station. center, but also by private citizens. 4P-英.eps.