{"id":17174,"date":"2026-06-27T09:55:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:55:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/races\/17174\/2026\/06\/27\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:55:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T00:55:12","slug":"first-train","status":"publish","type":"races","link":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/races\/17174\/2026\/06\/27\/","title":{"rendered":"First Train"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-small-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;ve always had a soft spot for the first train of the day&#8230; and the last one, too.<br>After dinner in Tokyo, I took the last train back to Nagoya.<br>Then, early the next morning, I caught the first train to Suzuka.<br>The typhoon passed without causing any trouble, so everything went according to plan.<br>As I left the hotel, a newspaper caught my eye.<br>It looks like Japanese football is doing well.<br>Come to think of it, I remember reading the news about the launch of the J.League while riding the Shinkansen.<br>Wait&#8230; did I spell Mr. Kawabuchi&#8217;s name correctly?<br>Football and transportation seem to have a strange connection for me.<br>Whenever I fly out of BCN, I often find myself on the same flight as Japanese football players.<br>I don&#8217;t know most of their names, but it certainly feels like there are more and more of them these days.<br>That&#8217;s something to look forward to.<br>Wishing everyone a wonderful day!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" src=\"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7526237b-f445-449f-9286-6b89567340f9.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-17173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7526237b-f445-449f-9286-6b89567340f9.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7526237b-f445-449f-9286-6b89567340f9-225x300.jpeg 225w, https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7526237b-f445-449f-9286-6b89567340f9-768x1024.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/7526237b-f445-449f-9286-6b89567340f9-1152x1536.jpeg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":17173,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"swell_btn_cv_data":""},"race_info":[],"race_section":[],"class_list":["post-17174","races","type-races","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/races\/17174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/races"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/races"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"race_info","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/race_info?post=17174"},{"taxonomy":"race_section","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tsrjp.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/race_section?post=17174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}