Let's Enjoy Traveling in Japan!

 Shopping and Dotonbori MAP I spent the morning tracking down some model train shops. There were actually two near the hotel. There was a Popondetta in the Hankyu Sanban Gai building. I got some Green Max building models there that fit in well with the Showa era switching layout I want to build.  Railroad diorama in Popondetta. Then I went to Hobby Land Pochi Umeda in the nearby Akashi Building. This chain usually has a pretty good inventory of used model trains. I was looking for a DD-13 model locomotive and I found one there. I asked the clerk if it was new or used:  “これ は 新品(しんぴん) です か、中古 (ちゅうこ)です か”. He said it was used, but the price was still good. So I tried to ask him if I could run it to check it out. I incorrectly used this phrase: “走ってもいいですか” (Is it okay if I run?), but he understood what I meant. I should have said “試運転(しうんてん)してもいいですか”.(Is it okay to do a test run?). I ran it slowly back and forth over their test track, and it ran smoothly. I also bought a lit...