Trains
This Science magazine article explains us a very interesting new discovery by a team of researchers at Hokkaido University.
The researchers put some oat flakes as if they were places in the Tokyo metropolitan area where most of the people are accumulated. Then they put a slime mold cell in the middle of the oat flakes [...]
Japanese trains are the most punctual in the world and they are also the most safe. One of the reasons why they are so punctual is that the same systematic protocols are accurately performed each time a train arrives to a station. Train drivers are trained to be able to stop a train within error [...]
The two girls in the left are chatting, the foreigner in the center talks on the phone (Don’t do it! It is considered bad manners), the girl next to him thinks and the girls in the background plays with her Nintendo DS
The girl with the yellow purse sends an e-mail with her cellphone, the other [...]
One of the first things in Japan that caught my attention were trains and also the amount of train geeks around here. A general passion for trains exists in Japan. Train geeks collect books about trains, they travel just to have the opportunity to “try a new train” or to visit a particular train station, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
I’ve never seen something so extreme, it seems the video is from 20 years ago here in Tokyo.
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 [...]
“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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