The Tourist Train for Plum Blossom Viewing in the Kairakuen Garden during the Meiji and Taisho Periods

• MIYAKE Takuya

  京都工芸繊維大学デザイン・建築学系

Bibliographic Information

Other Title

• 明治・大正期の水戸・偕楽園と観梅列車
• 明治・大正期の水戸・偕楽園と観梅列車 : 水戸における鉄道を利用した観光事業の成立と展開
• メイジ ・ タイショウキ ノ ミト ・ カイラクエン ト カンバイ レッシャ : ミト ニ オケル テツドウ オ リヨウ シタ カンコウ ジギョウ ノ セイリツ ト テンカイ
• 水戸における鉄道を利用した観光事業の成立と展開
• A Development of Tourism with Train Service in Mito

Abstract

The Kairakuen Garden in Mito that is famous in plum blossoms and is crowded with tourists in every spring. Related to the garden, various train service for tourists have been offered by the railway company since the middle of the Meiji era. The features of its development are; 1) use of exiting railroad by special ticket in the beginning and by temporary platform operation, 2) newspaper company played important role, 3) leadership of the local station manager. This paper refined its development process based on newspapers in local and Tokyo at that time. Although the garden was originally private, it became to a core of the tourism business of Mito, through a relationship development with the train service.

Journal

• The Tourism Studies

  The Tourism Studies 28 (1), 83-96, 2016

  Japan Institute of Tourism Research

Keywords

• Tokiwa Park
• Daimyo Garden
• Tourist Train
• Mito Plum Blossom Festival

Details

• CRID: 1390001205770729344
• NII Article ID: 130005531087
• NII Book ID: AA11569277
• DOI: 10.18979/jitr.28.1_83
• ISSN: 21897530
• ISSN: 13420208
• NDL BIB ID: 027762757
• Web Site: http://id.ndl.go.jp/bib/027762757
• Web Site: https://ndlsearch.ndl.go.jp/books/R000000004-I027762757
• Text Lang: ja
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