I wrote a post before about some JR train station maps that are on their site. The list included only maps that had English translations, but recently I found a much longer list (with 170 stations). It’s only in Japanese but you can work out the general layout by looking.
I ran the HTML page through [...]
I found a few strange stations in Japan, which have ‘Eki’ as part of the name, so they end up being called eki-eki.
Here’s one called Koyukanshineki eki: 湖遊館新駅駅 and another called Hiroshima Eki Eki (can’t find any more information on this one, so it might be wrong).
Here’s one more: 横川駅駅 (Yokogawa Eki Eki)
After hearing that Omotesando was closed down, I got up early and headed down to my local Softbank shop at 5:30 this morning. I needn’t have worried, cos there was noone there yet. At 6:00, the next iPhone fan arrived, an otaku kind of guy. At 7:00, a very genki oyaji came along, he was [...]
A few details from a friend working in a Softbank shop..
Only 10 phones are going to be delivered. It’s a small shop, but that’s a very small number. The shipment will only arrive tomorrow.
Phone calls were coming in all day asking if they could reserve. The policy at the shop was no reservations, you have [...]
Here’s the best keyboard shop that I’ve found in Tokyo. It’s in Akihabara, about 5 minutes walk from the station, in a small alley. It’s called Cleverly and there are 3 separate stores. Only one of them does all keyboards, but they’re all close together, so just ask if you land in the wrong one. [...]
Here’s an excellent list of the major bookshops in Tokyo. It seems to be updated regularly (last update was a few days ago) and includes places that have closed as well as the ones that are still open.
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/4824/jp-tokyo.htm
Here’s a great list of all the libraries in the Tokyo area. It’s all in Kanji, but you can run it through a translator to find the one you need. This is probably going to be my next project for scraping, translating and mapping.
http://www.reference-net.jp/lib_dir/13.html
Here’s a page with links to libraries throughout Japan, organised by prefecture.
Update: [...]
I got a call from an unknown number on my Keitai but didn’t answer it. It looked like a business number with repeating parts (043-224-1010) and I knew that it was in Chiba by the first 3 digits. Being paranoid, instead of calling it back I went and searched on the internet. It turns out [...]
Japan Rail has a great page with maps of many major stations. I didn’t like the way they pop out a new page for every one, so I wrote a quick parser to grab all the links. Here’s the pages for individual station maps. Most are in Tokyo, but a few are further away (eg [...]
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