More than 200 passengers boarded the first steam locomotive service of the season for a trip through snow-covered wetlands in Hokkaido, northern Japan, on Saturday.
Fuyu-no-Shitsugen-go, which means the wetland in winter, started at about 11 o'clock in the morning after a ceremony at Kushiro Station to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the service.
The passengers say they were delighted to see the snow-covered Kushiro wetland that appeared soon after they left the station. They cheered when they saw red-crowned cranes and deer.
The locomotive is equipped with old-fashioned coal heaters on which the passengers toasted rice cakes and dried squid.
One passenger said he considers himself lucky to see wild animals and such wonderful landscape in the winter, which is totally different from the summer.
The seasonal locomotive will run on a part of the rail way between Kushiro and Abashiri stations until March 7th.
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