Awakening the traveler in everyone

To go as far as possible.
To witness landscapes yet to be seen.
Such a longing is surely part of what makes us human.

Step aboard the Hanasaki Line,
and the everyday world drifts farther and farther away.

The train slips through primeval forests,
drawing eyes to the Pacific Ocean and
the coastline reaching out into it.
Yezo sika deer pass quietly by,
and the rails trace the delicate boundary between water and land,
gliding across vast wetlands.

As the scenery transforms moment by moment,
attention is completely captured—
and suddenly, the very shape of the Earth itself comes into view.

This is, unmistakably,
a journey where Earth’s splendor unfolds.