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Thomas the Tank Engine School Bus

I saw this great Thomas the Tank Engine school bus a few days after I moved into my place. From the window you can see a school, and every day this bus would arrive and drop off the kids. I always wanted to take a photo, but never got the opportunity. Today, as I was [...]

Drip Attachment in Tokyo Underground

Last weekend there was crazy wind and rain all over Tokyo. After visiting a friend, we had to take a long detour through the Tokyo underground to get back. In one of the stations (maybe Kayabacho) they’d rigged up a drip to stop the water falling from the ceiling onto the platform and causing accidents. [...]

More JR Station Maps (Japanese)

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 [...]

Eki Eki

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)

JR Train Station Maps

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 [...]