Conversation with a railroad geek

I met someone yesterday who I hadn't seen in a while.'Actually, I like the Porsche Panamera.I blog about Panamera."I told him, "Actually, I'm a train geek... I think I'll write a train geek blog then," he said.

I am not yet familiar enough with the Panamera to be called a geek, I just like it, but I would like to become more familiar with it and learn more about Porsche.

And that person was the one who was in the conversation.I went to the Hara Model Railroad Museum the other day, and it was terrific!"What he said was astonishing...or rather...it was already an astonishing story.

Shintaro Hara

I had no idea about the museum, so I looked it up and found that it was created by Mr. Shintaro Hara, former senior managing director of Kokuyo. This article introduces Mr. Hara and the museum in detail.

 Hara was passionate not only about model trains, but also about collecting first tickets. The first ticket is the first ticket issued by the line when it opens, and one usually has to be at the front of the line on the first day of operation to obtain one. There is also an ichiban ticket for the Tokaido Shinkansen bullet train, which opened in 1964, but he is particular about the number of seats: Hikari No. 1, car No. 1, and seat No. 1.
*Article quote: The culmination of an unprecedented hobby life! Shintaro Hara and the Hara Model Railway Museum

Amazing...

He sometimes took time off from work to stand in line for the first ticket, and he invested his personal fortune to collect a large number of valuable models.

It goes far beyond the realm of being a railroad geek, and is really nothing short of "amazing.

People who come to mind when you think of Porsche

When it comes to Porsche, what comes to mind beyond the realm of hobbyists is Mr. Satoshi Hoshino of D'station Racing. I once went to see the Carrera Cup at Okayama International Circuit.(Super GT was the main focus, but(I wasn't interested in that, only saw the Porsche Carrera Cup in the front row.)This is the first time I've heard of Mr. Hoshino. That's great...it's on Wikipedia.

As a manager, he is the CEO of NEXUS, a company that operates pachinko halls "D'STATION" mainly in the Kanto area, and as an athlete, he is a racing driver who participates in car races that the company sponsors.

Born in Katashina Village to a family that owned a transportation company that transported maitake mushrooms and timber from Mt. After taking over the family business, he entered the amusement industry in 1995, opening the first D'STATION store in Numata City (currently the Numata Sohonten Store). Since then, the company has expanded its business area one after another, growing into a large company with dozens of stores mainly in the Kanto area and annual sales of over 200 billion yen (as of FY6/16). He is also a team owner of "D'station Racing" and a driver of Super Taikyu and Porsche Carrera Cup.
＊https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E9%96%A2%E6%9D%B1

Mr. Hoshino started participating in Porsche Carrera Cup races himself when he was over 40 years old. He has been training and practicing seriously, and has won many times in the Gentleman class, and is now competing in the overall class. Mr. Hoshino's company website reads.

Since we will be competing in the Super GT300, we will go for the top result from the first year of 2017. In the near future, I would like to enter the 24 Hours of Le Mans (France) and the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA) as D'Station Racing with an all-Japanese driver.

Seriously! Seriously! He's looking at Le Mans!
I mean, how much does it cost?

Someday Porsche Garage

It's really amazing how far we've come. My husband once told me that he was'I'll never build a house, but I want to build a garage exclusively for my car.'Yesterday, I told him, "There is a former executive director of Kokuyo named Mr. Hara who loves trains so much that he built a museum. I told him that it would be great if he could build a Porsche garage or something in the future.

I'll have to make a lot of money to do that!

I would like to build a Porsche garage, but first I would have to buy a Porsche myself. Dream big! I'll do my best!