Trains & Transport
Shinkansen Cigarettes
Cigarette advertising around the world used to be more prominent. In Japan, cigarettes had an interesting tie-up with JR for Shinkansens and travel around…
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Trains & Transport
Japanese trains, stations, roads and getting around.
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Ohashi Junction, Chuo-Kanjou-sen
Central Tokyo Highways are a great site, built high above the ground, winding past apartment and office windows through the over-developed city below.…
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Shinkansen Hotels
Summer time means holidays and with that comes Pokemon Shinkansens , Pokemon Yamanote Trains and plenty of rail travel for families. DIME Magazine this…
Food & Drink
JR Train Tea Found!
A while ago I wrote about the great tea drink product in the shape of the Yamanote Line. A lot of people asked me where they could buy it. Well, here it…
Culture
Pokemon Yamanote Train
Each year at summer, Nintendo and JR hold a stamp rally for the kids. The stamp rally requires the children to collect rubber stamp imprints for each…
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Shinkansen Cleaning
The trains in Japan always look clean, particularly the Shinkansen. At Tokyo station, the cleaners quickly board the incoming trains, perform a quick…
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Chiba Monorail
I visited a friend in Chiba and got the chance to ride the Chiba monorail recently. There are a few monorails in Japan, some that run above the tracks and…
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Pokemon Shinkansen
The Pokemon decorated Shinkansen series was started last year during the summer holiday season and became a popular success with families. I went down to…
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Rail Fans
Trains are always popular in Japan and there are many books and magazines available for rail fans to enjoy. Just recently a number of new magazines have…
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Elevator Manners
It is always good to see workers of large corporations taking the initiative themselves. It looks like at Shibuya station, they decided there was a need…
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E5 Shinkansen + Quiz answers
The first media test run of the new E5 Shinkansen was on the 17th June, 2009. The Sankei Newspaper had some good photos you can see. Click on the arrow…
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Ikoma Cable Car
Only a few years after trains first starting running in Japan back in the late 1800's, and when it still took about 12 hours to travel from Tokyo to…
Food & Drink
Yamanote Train Green Tea
You don't normally associate the Yamanote train line with green tea, but from April 20th, this year, Mokku company have been selling their unique product…
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Japan Railways
While out the other day at Ikspiari, Maihama, next to DisneyLand, I found a store that specialized in model railway parts, bus models and generally all…
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Station Concert
Passing through Shinkiba station (新木場) I saw this classical music concert inside the station building. What a great idea. If you cant get the people to…
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The Train to Odaiba
The train to Odaiba, otherwise known as the Tokyo Waterfront Area Rapid Transit, TWR or 東京臨海高速鉄道 runs its basic route from Osaki on the Yamaonote line to…
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No more Smoking at stations
It's April 1st tomorrow, the start of the new financial year, and JR East are putting into practice their new policy of no smoking at stations in central…
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JR keyrings
Found these great JR keyring chains with the station names on. The design is the same as the real display sign at the station. The product has been around…