I'd love to visit Japan someday, though the thought of spending 12 hours in a pressurized aluminum tube at 40 thousand feet over the Pacific does not thrill me at all. So until that day when the stars align and time, funds and courage meet, I resign myself to exploring the land of the rising sun with Google. My son got an Oculus VR headset for Christmas two years ago and we put Google Earth on there. Warning, if you get vertigo, the feeling is real when you select a region and suddenly you're hovering in low Earth orbit next to the planet with empty space all around you. <shivers> Better to type in a street address and not be so high up. Once you drop into street view the experience is pleasant, providing beautiful vistas, interesting structures and of course, trains.
Anyway, when walking in Kamakura one day I came across this:
Can you see it? No? Take a closer look:
Yes! It is a model railroad. I have no idea what this store actually sells, but they've got trains. Maybe someone with better Google hunting skills can discover and let me know. Some folks hunt for garden gnomes; I hunt for trains and this time I found a tiny railroad in a store window.
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