IKUTORA STATION

It is a good atmosphere station.

Original Text

The set at that time remained and the atmosphere in front of the station was very good. I was able to buy a ticket at the next building, and I was glad I stopped by. What's unfortunate is the discontinued line? Weeds were all-you-can-eat on the railroad tracks. It's impossible, but I want Hokkaido to return from JR to Jnr only. Otherwise, there will be few trains other than the suburbs of Sapporo. ..

Wearing the hats of the exhibits, in the atmosphere of the railroad crew

Original Text

It is the location of the movie Tenz Mobilization (Poppoya), which won the Japan Academy Award and the Montreal Film Festival Best Actor Award in 2000. Although it is a station on the JR Hokkaido Nemuro Main Line, it has been closed due to heavy rain in 2016, so now that the station building is operated by a substitute bus, so the station building sells the location of the movie and the signboard is also used in the movie. It's Horomai Station. Su. Inside the station building, there is an exhibition room related to the location of the movie, and the hats for railway workers on the exhibits can be worn freely, so wear that hat and ...

"Horomai station" in the movie "railroad staff" (1999) starring Ken Takakura

Original Text

The movie "Railroad Man (Poppoya)" (1999) was immediately released and impressed when I saw it at the movie theater. How many times did you watch it on videos and DVDs after that? I wanted to come to this station someday. In March 2016, this station was on the way from Shintoku to Takigawa on a rail trip using the Hokkaido Free Pass, but when I got off here, I had a lot of time to get to the next train and couldn't stop by. In addition, damage caused by typhoon No.10 landed in Hokkaido on August 31, 2016 ...

Ken San...

Original Text

Ikutora Station is a model of Horomai Station, which is the stage of railway workers. The trains, costumes, desks, etc. used in the movie are on display, and you can feel as if you have entered the world of railway workers. On the platform of the station, I remembered Ken Takakura's stationmaster, and I was deeply moved. Currently, Ken Takakura and other actors 々 have died, and this Ikutora station has also been decided to be abolished. I feel very lonely, but I will leave this station building and keep the visitors warm ...

Nostalgia

Original Text

"Railroadman (Poppoya)" starring Ken Takakura will appear as "Horomai Station". The furnishings used for shooting are exhibited in the station building and it is a memorial hall. The simple appearance of the wooden walls, wooden window frames and doors, and tin roofs, is nostalgic.