BG Report: Uetsu Main Line in Akita Prefecture
Some local trains are more "local" than others • Southern Akita
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I was up about 6:15 this morning, and my blood sugar was 182 – it had started rising by itself from the 130s about an hour earlier.
I had a long train day coming, so breakfast was small but tasty, from the buffet in the hotel. (Actually it was in the izakaya, like a Japanese pub, attached to the hotel, which is used for breakfast in the mornings.)
Despite being higher than I’d like upon waking, my post-breakfast spike wasn’t bad at all today: it got to about 222, then started gliding back down.
I rode up the Uetsu Main Line from Sakata, through northern Yamagata Prefecture, and into Akita Prefecture.
I reached Akita Station, settled up my train ticket fare, and got on a train on the Ōu Main Line to Ōmagari Station. There I transferred to a third train, on the Tazawako Line.
I wasn’t on that line long, a mere 20 minutes. I got off at Kakunodate Station, and my BG was by now steady around 160.
Me and my friend at Akita Station
The rest of the day was spent on the adorable and mountainous Akita-Nairiku Railway, but that will be another tale for another time. As for the coastal trains today, a morning of comparatively fine BGs on some more-than-fine train lines.
