Recorded Joy·Rakuchū / Umekōji

Umekoji's Historic Rail Roundhouse

The Umekōji engine shed was completed in 1914, designed by the Railway Bureau as part of the reworking of Kyoto Station. It is a reinforced-concrete roundhouse whose roughly twenty tracks fan out from a central turntable, and is regarded as the oldest surviving large reinforced-concrete engine shed in Japan. It was designated an Important Cultural Property in 2004. Once the Umekōji Steam Locomotive Museum, it is now preserved and open within the Kyoto Railway Museum, where locomotives are still turned on the table.

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These notes come from desk research. Local traditions vary.