Archive for the category Trains

Arriving with Yamanote to Shibuya & Hachiko

Por kirai el 23 de October de 2008 en Trains

Yesterday I shared with you my passion for the Yamanote Line. In this post I show you a video where I use a Yamanote train, I get off at Shibuya, I show you how long a Yamanote train is, and I end up next to the Hachiko Dog.

I say something in Spanish, just ignore [...]

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Yamanote line

Por kirai el 21 de October de 2008 en Trains

The Yamanote is one of the most fascinating train lines in the world. After living many years in Tokyo, it never stops to surprise me. During these years I’ve been collecting some interesting facts about the Yamanote and here I share them with you:

The Yamanote is a loop urban line in the center of Tokyo [...]

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Obama station

Por kirai el 13 de October de 2008 en Trains

There is a train station in Japan called Obama (小浜: little beach). The station is located in a city called Obama and there is a train line called Obama that arrives to the Obama station.

When the people from Obama learned about Barack Obama they started to support him and also find different ways to make [...]

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Pushers extreme version

Por kirai el 30 de June de 2008 en Trains

I’ve never seen something so extreme, it seems the video is from 20 years ago here in Tokyo.

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IKEA train

Por kirai el 10 de April de 2008 en Trains

IKEA announced a new shop in Kobe, for promotion purposes they decorared a monorail using their sofas. That should be a perfect train if you want to sleep!

This pictures are not mine, I picked them from this and this blog.
More info about the new IKEA, access map and how to finde the Kobe Portliner [...]

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Trains decorated by kids

Por kirai el 18 de February de 2008 en Trains

“Odakyu” railways organized a contest to celebrate their 80th aniversary. The contest is about designing the external look for Express, Semiexpress and Local Odakyu trains; only kids from primary school can participate. It’s curious and makes me happy to see those colorful trains painted by kids traveling through the boring Tokyo gray houses and buildings. [...]

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Photographing the Shinkansen

Por kirai el 11 de February de 2008 en Trains

I while ago I found a perfect place to take Shinkansen (Japanese bullet train) pictures. You take Tokyo’s Yamanote line until Hamamatsuchō station, go out using the south exit and walk until the end of the corridor. Cross the bridge and look for a nice window. Another good place to take Shinkansen pictures is [...]

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Railways maintenance

Por kirai el 12 de October de 2007 en Trains

They are the group of workers who I see every month checking the railway in front of my home. They check every single centimeter and take care that every stone is in its place. The service is not stopped during the maintenance, they just work when there are no trains so they have to stop [...]

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Yurikamome

Por kirai el 26 de June de 2007 en Trains

Yurikamome line is one of my favorite railways in Japan. Is one of the main connections between Tokyo and Odaiba island. Is not really a train, neither a monorail… it works somehow using wheels and traveling on top of an elevated concrete structure. It doesn’t need a driver, everything is controlled by computers. Not having [...]

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Darth Vader in Tokyo - The video

Por kirai el 11 de June de 2007 en Otaku, Tokyo, Trains

Just finished editing Darth Vader/Dannychoo video. I usually edit my videos using iMovie, simple and easy!. It just took me three minutes to prepare this video.
Look how Darth Vader is also using a Suica card, so he can pay the train just approaching his hand to the reader and the force will help him pay. [...]

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