Tokuma

I got up early as I had booked the earliest train I could to get to the onsen village yesterday. I grabbed a newsdays breakfast, the hot canned coffee was not half bad actually. I tried to track with Google but it kept saying the trip I wanted to do was cancelled due to heavy snow. When I got to Takasaki I asked at the ticket booth and she advised just to get on the train at track 6 as it should get me that direction (I think).
I chucked some earbuds in and cranked some music to jam along to on the train, really related to the one republic - can I get a connection song.
Well turns out I had selected the wrong onsen village in google maps and got on the wrong train and about an hour in the opposite direction. Can't overly complain as these villages are absolutely beautiful covered in snow on a sunny day and I'm making good use of my rail pass.
I found the sprinklers in all the roads quite interesting, it was their way of keeping the ice off of the roads.
I jumped on another train that I think might have been allocated seats but I just found one and sat down. I had to get off at Naganoharakusatsuguchi station, I'm sure it means something but was quite a long name.
At one point I think I must have been in the town associated with initial d as there was info about it but will need to research that later.
As I had taken longer I had another newsdays meal to tie me over till I got to Kusatsu.Read more