1092F of the EMU Odakyu 1000 series passes through Umegaoka stationIt's mid-February already. Time really flies. I recently visited a plum grove in the neighborhood with my family to find an advent of spring.
Our destination was Hanegi Park in Setagaya Ward of Tokyo Metropolis. It looks just like a common public park located in the residential area, but a plum grove in the park is famous for local people. When we visited there, white, pink and red colored plums were one-third in bloom. The visitors were enjoying the early days of the 2021 plum viewing season in their own way. I specifically enjoyed seeing a cat sleeping on a stone poem monument backed by fully blown pink colored plum blossoms. He (or she) never worried about visitors, as it was warm and comfortable on the stone monument. The combination of full blown plums and the sleeping cat was indeed picturesque.
To get to Hanegi Park, the nearest railway station is Umegaoka on the Odakyu line. Taking this opportunity, I'm going to show you a precious train, which I took a photo at Umegaoka station. It's 1092F (set 1092) of the EMU Odakyu 1000 series built by Kawasaki Heavy Industries in 1992. As you know, the most 1000 series trains recently have modern LED destination displays on their front and side bodies, but the displays of 1092F are still old rollsigns. It's nostalgic and popular among trainspotters like me, because of its scarcity. Please take photographs of these classic destination rollsigns before it's too late.
A cat sleeps on the stone poem monument in Hanegi Park