Outline

A small shrine and a train stop that's no longer there.

Story

The border bridge

Even with the functional administration and associated maintenance of roadside signs to reflect that gone for a while, the very adjacent municipality signs of Kuriyama, Yuubari and Yuni are persisting. To an extent. At least, I can still tell one from another and get the unrealistic feeling of crossing borders.

I don' think I have experienced a lot of meaningful border crossing. The very ceremonial type. Or should I say, the ceremonially artificial type? Like when I first came here there was immigration, customs, and all that. I do think that border crossing is quite ceremonial in itself, though. The artificial borders created by someone drawing a dotted or dashed or solid line on a map, and the not-so-artificial borders naturally imposing themselves wherever they are because there is a river, a pet, a nay, a put or something else happens to there.