Sight-seeing steam train on Hisatsu Line

Kyushu Railway Co. (JR Kyushu) put a restored steam locomotive, the Hitoyoshi-go, back into service to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the JR Hisatsu Line.

For security reasons, the Japanese government of 1909 decided to build the railway in and around the mountains, rather than along the coastline, to avoid gunfire from foreign battleships.

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