冬の釧路湿原号に乗りました。
毎年1月〜3月に、釧路湿原を経由して、釧路駅と標茶(しべちゃ)駅を往復する観光列車です。
運行日が少なく、大人気の電車なので、チケット予約が争奪戦でした。
乗車日の1ヶ月前に半休を取って、無事に往復とも希望の席をゲット!
乗車日は曇り空だったのですが、冬の釧路湿原の風景を楽しめました。

I got on a steam locomotive in Kushiro Marshland in the winter.
This steam locomotive runs between January and March every year, It runs between the Kushiro Station and the Shibecha Station. It takes 40 minutes trip.
It was hard to get train tickets because steam locomotives run only on weekends for three months and It is very popular among train fans and many tourists.
I got a half-holiday to get the train tickets, and I got nice seats.
It was cloudy when I got on the steam locomotive; I enjoyed seeing the view of the Kushiro Marshland.
Shooting Date：2025/3/21

Steam Locomotive

This is a steam locomotive of Kushiro Marshland in winter. It was 25th anniversary.

I board on Car.5 “Tancho-go”. Car.1 and Car.5 hace red seats.

Car.1 and Car.5 has aisle seats. I reserved this type seats round-trip.

Green seats and Blue seats car(Car.2~4) are stove car.

View from steam train(Kushiro~Shibecha)

A steam train left Kushiro Station. It is Kushiro River.

After 10 minutes leaving Kushiro Station, We can see only glass field.
It is the Kushiro Marshland.

It is a dam but it was not used at all.

A view of Kushiro Marshland in winter.

A big river.

Cow farm.

Shibecha Station

A happy-kurobee(left side) and Milcook(right site).
They are a PR characters of Shibecha-Town.
They greeted tourists.

A roof of the Shibecha Station. There are some paper crafts if Red-Crown Cranes.
Here and Kushiro City is famous for Red-Crown Cranes which is called tancho in Japan.

Shibecha Station. We stay at this area for a hour and 20 minutes.

View from steam train(Shibecha~Kushiro)

A steam locomotive back to the Kushiro station.
It leaves Shibecha station at 2:00 p.m.

I saw a train from footbridge. Many people took train photos.

Two red-crown cranes are flying.
Here is a farm of red-crown cranes.

White tailed-eagles were flying.
Many animals eagles, deers, and foxes live in Kushiro Marshland.

Wild ezo-deers. There are many wild ezo-deers.
I saw over 10 deers, but it was hard to take their photos.

A Touro Station. This train stay at this station for 10 minutes.
Touro has Lake Touro which is the biggest lake in Kushiro Marshland and Salbo observation. We can see five lakes from it.