Japan Railway Enthusiast’s Paradise: Japan’s top Railway Model Art Festival!

Thank you for always tuning in to Choo-Choo Travel! Are you enjoying our content? In our latest video, we attended the 【Japan’s Premier Railway Model Art Festival: Gathering of Railway Model Geniuses!】 Held on March 16th (Saturday) and 17th（Sunday）in Ikebukuro, Tokyo, organized by the Japan Railway Modelers Association, this festival, now in its 9th edition, attracted a large crowd. The footage we’re sharing was carefully filmed and edited, with permission obtained from each booth exhibitor and the former director, graciously allowing us to share it on YouTube. We sincerely appreciate their cooperation. Thanks to them, railway fans and model enthusiasts worldwide can enjoy this video. Unfortunately, due to logistical issues, next year’s festival is canceled, postponing this delightful event until 2026. We created this video to share this precious and enjoyable time with you. While we’ve taken care in its production, if you notice any errors in the video, please let us know in the comments. For our international viewers, we encourage you to visit Japan and experience this fantastic event firsthand. Our channel covers various travels, luxury trains, tourist trains, and even railway museums. As a small and growing channel, we appreciate your support through likes, subscribes, comments, and watching our other videos. Thank you for reading until the end of the description. Cost: Free Booth - ¥0, Paid Booth Admission Fee - ¥500 Train: From Shinkansen and steam locomotives to express trains, private railways, local lines, American railways, trams, monorails, Thomas, and more! Duration: A quick visit could take 1.5 hours, a regular visit 3 hours, a leisurely one 5 hours, and for enthusiasts, the entire operating hours. Impression: We were drooling the whole time! 0:00 Opening 0:26 Current Status 0:38 Preparation on the Previous Day 4:10 Event (Day 1) 5:05 J-TRAK Society 6:26 Kawatec Solution Service 6:49 Small Fictional Railway Landscape 12:33 T-TRAK Tokyo Project 16:32 Sagamihara Railway Model Club 17:11 Jōshū Monterey Line 18:29 NGP American O Narrow 20:06 Yeah O Geo 22:46 Mugi Rail 25:11 J International Railway Club 26:53 Gimmick 2024 29:22 Shin-Yurigaoka Railway Model Club 32:48 Narrow Gauge Junction 34:45 Tabletop Railway 36:49 Automatic Operation of Tokyu Setagaya Line 37:26 Land Jokies 38:36 M8 41:58 Seijo Junior and Senior High School Railway Research Department 42:15 Let’s Enjoy HO Scale! (HOJC) 45:10 HN Module Tokyo Club 47:07 This is Layout 48:27 J-TRAK Society 57:20 Event (Day 2) #Museum #RailwayModel #Diorama