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16 October 2008 @ 6pm

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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 through [...]


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19 September 2008 @ 7pm

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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 [...]