#MarkDoesJapan and to finally get to Kanazawa is number 28. A series 521-0 Ainokaze Toyama local train.

#MarkDoesJapan number 27 is another Toyama Chihou Railway main line train.

#MarkDoesJapan and if I’ve gone to Unazuki-Onsen it can only mean that number 26 is the Kurobe Gorge Railway.

#MarkDoesJapan after a quick Shinkansen shuttle we’re at number 25 with a Toyama Chihou Railway main line service to Unazuki-Onsen.

#MarkDoesJapan and as we change from JR East to JR West we lose a car, and change from an EMU to a DMU, a KiHa 120-300. Needless to say the single car was full. This makes it to number 24.

#MarkDoesJapan and because the Azusa doesn’t go to the end of the JR East line I get a sneaky few extra stops on a E127-100 2 car set for number 23.

#MarkDoesJapan and we are off again with number 22 a JR East E353 Azusa service

#MarkDoesJapan and number 21 goes to a JR East 211 series local train returning me to Matsumoto

#MarkDoesJapan and number 20 goes to the Alpico private railway on the Kamikochi Line. The train has just arrived and the driver has just sprinted up the platform to get to this end of the train. He seems flustered as we are a minute late!

"All right, class, who knows what Watson and Crick discovered?"
"Rosalind Franklin's notes."
"That's correct."

#MarkDoesJapan and the final train of the day, and number nineteen is JR Central’s 383 series Shinano. Sadly it was dark and the Green car was at the wrong end so no before photo and no great view.

Nice.

#MarkDoesJapan is on train number eighteen, it’s a JR West W7 series Shinkansen Hakutaka and I’m on my way to Nagano.

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