Suitetsu / Mizuna Tetsudou – Osaka, Japan 2024

11Jan/250

Suitetsu / Mizuna Tetsudou – Osaka, Japan 2024

Suitetsu has always been on the to-do list, but it's also always been physically located to the south of Kansai Airport and, although easy to get to, it's just so far out of the way! The name is interesting. The URL is "Sui" "Tetsu" (water railway), the name on the main station building at Kaizuka Station is "Suitetu", which I can't fault, bu the standard for "tsu" is "tsu", not "to". Finally, the ACTUAL railway company name is Mizuma Tetsudou. So, not only have the done the usual Japanese method of use-first-syllable-of-both names Mizu[na] Tetsu[dou], but they've then used the "second-reading" onyoumi/kunyoumi and converted "mizu" to "sui". Confusing, to say the least!

Getting there from Shin-Osaka was pretty darn-easy. Subway due-south with a transfer at Namba to the Nankai Line. The Suitetsu starts at Kaizuka Station, which also happens to be a Nankai Station. Due to a fully-packed schedule this time around, there was no need for a JR Rail Pass and therefore any railway company would work.

I'm going to try something stupid here and use the Google Maps "Embed" functionality... I don't know how well this will age.

And so yeah, the subway was easy and the transfer to Nankai even easier. I actually happened to take the Hankyu Senri line south to Tengachaya Station, instead of Midosuji, but they're all much-of-a-much from Shin-Osaka. Whilst transferring, I noticed that the next service stopping was going to be special... so I waited for it.

I then exited the station and transferred to the Suitetsu platform. After purchasing a ticket, I rode the next EMU all the way to Mizumakan-Non Station.

From here, the goal was to dawdle line-side, taking photos of anything that passed. Unfortunately, it started raining horizontally and I wasn't really into it...

Dodging the rain, I caught the next train west to Ishizai and walked from there to the JR Station at Izumi-Hashimoto.

I happened across a Haru-Kitty on the way!

Along with some nature.

Junk Shopping!

From here, it was just a few more hops and a few Hard-Offs. Note that the path doesn't include any of the walking I did above! This is just for anyone who may want to check out the local attractions the easy way.

I actually don't remember purchasing anything significant and the rain was unstoppable. Not really the train-day I was expecting!