If you're familiar w "The Girl Who Leapt Through Time," the train she falls in front of is Shin-Keisei (old colors):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fkxg8ter_8k …
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winding from the coast to the heart of the mountains...pic.twitter.com/pQd56tWJ9m
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...stopping at the forgotten villages of an older Japan along the waypic.twitter.com/EYZ10aYJdx
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casual station aesthetic--last pic is view from a stationpic.twitter.com/Hkf48Mxp7k
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visiting your hometown; you ride a sequence of trains from the heart of the city to the heart of nowhere--get out, the air says "I'm home"pic.twitter.com/Ziqh35Iyx3
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They use a newer model for rapid and express servicepic.twitter.com/OORBlso6qJ
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looks like someone made anime art of the Sanko Line too listening to an acoustic cover of "Country Roads" while posting, just rightpic.twitter.com/hZcRhNXqcF
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Heading back east again but staying in West Japan--this is the Kisei Line, a long coastal routepic.twitter.com/FtMXcsnfl0
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this route is insanely long, with a ton of stations, all in mountainous coastal land with very low populationspic.twitter.com/k7cXCMccum
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the route is electrified; express trains from Osaka wind their way along it all the way to Shingupic.twitter.com/Qy0d9AoiXj
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Shirahama station is a major tourist destinationpic.twitter.com/nxdy3CHd2r
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we're following the Kisei line inbound towards Osaka in this sequence of tweetspic.twitter.com/6IVf6YLcLp
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some of the express trains on the Kisei Line...first pic is the "Ocean Arrow"pic.twitter.com/FWZ8Nx13cB
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going north of Osaka now--this is the Obama Linepic.twitter.com/kvgqwGPcw1
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no relation to the president, obv--"Obama" in Japanese means "little beach" [小浜]pic.twitter.com/wwNPYPsd6E
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like the Kisei Line, the Obama Line is close enough to Osaka to be electrified despite being very ruralpic.twitter.com/LLjriafK1d
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some stops on the Obama Line...2nd pic and last pic are at Obama Stationpic.twitter.com/Bltb3Hog5j
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A brief musical interlude will follow...
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On JR lines in the Tokyo area, a melody plays on every platform before the train's doors close--a sort of audio "yellow light"
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If you're on the platform, hurry in; if you're almost there, don't rush because you won't make it
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So with that said--these are the melodies at Shinjuku Station: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N25AMw1EQxQ … I'm fond of the ones at 2:16 and 2:41
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These are the ones for Shinagawa, Ikebukuro, and Tokyo.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d3CHmmHyeN0 … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXmXbofjQwY … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK0W5j0wEjA …
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