Three black chimneys stood on the roof of a locomotive garage with a large door

There are many things in the world whose value is difficult for the layman to understand. Locomotive Depot No. 3 at the Otaru Museum is one such example. Certainly, anyone who sees the information "the oldest existing locomotive depot in Japan" would think that it is valuable in its own way, but who can understand its value just by looking at it? The keyword "Japan's oldest existing locomotive depot" may sound like something you understand, but it is actually something you don't understand. However, there may be people who can tell just by looking at the structure that it is a very rare example of French piling! I don't know what to think about it.

In this sense, I usually judge values by looking at information. In particular, I am at the mercy of price information. Even if I don't know anything about it, I tend to think that something with a high price is solid and valuable, which is understandable because I don't have my own criteria for judging value. When I saw a Yayoi Kusama work sell for 200 million yen at a gallery in Tokyo, I learned that Yayoi Kusama must be an amazing artist to be able to sell her work for such a price.

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