QUOTE (Andrew_07 @ 27 Jun 2007, 17:52)
<{POST_SNAPBACK}>Thank you for all the replies and apologies for not replying earlier. I have seen the Setagaya layout before and he also has done at least one other Japanese layout.
Was interested to see how popular it is here in the UK and what sort of ideas people had used.
Do you have websites or photos of your Japan layouts?
It is the rolling stock that interests me rather than specifically wanting a model railway and I am not very good at designing layouts or ideas!
Did not realise there was any Japanese Ho scale stuff though, especially not the 500 Nozomi - would like to see that!
I have been trying to learn a bit of Japanese to enable me to understand some of the (probably) excellent websites and books but it is rather difficult to learn!
Andrew
Hello Andrew,
I will...eventually....take pictures of the Tenshodo Nozomi 500 and put them in photobucket.
In the meantime google Tenshodo and you can go to their store on the Ginza.They show the Nozomi 500.
It is in Japanese and you can get a funny Japanglish translation.
To see the web site you may need to get the thinghy that allows your computer to see Kanji and Katagana Japanese characters.
There is quite a bit of HO in Japan.Katsumi,Kawai,Kato,Tenshodo and others.
Try and get a Japanese model rail book to see and as I said before it would be nice to have one of those translater pens you can scan over the Japanese characters to get a rough idea.They are available,expensive and hard to find.
You are trying to learn Japanese eh!
Nihongo ganbarimasu kudasai,
Mata ne,
Bryan.