Distributor :  Alexander ND TraveLLer

If you are visiting Kyoto, don't forget the small museum at Saga Torokko, Kyoto on the Sagano Scenic Railway,Basically it's an enlargement of the old Umekoji Steam Locomotive Museum to accommodate a lot of diesel and electric exhibits. It reopened after a long period of closure during the last week of April and is a really good place. The new exhibits are housed in two enormous new halls and most of the steam locomotives are housed in the old Umekoji roundhouse, one of the major locomotive depots in the west of Japan in steam days. It dates from 1916 and is one of the oldest in Japan.
Far from it, there was something of a tidal wave of people walking along the path through the park leading to the museum and when we arrived there must have been well over 1,000 people in the queue for tickets. Railways in general and steam locomotives in particular are very popular in Japan.