I swear I was looking for a font when I came across this site with sound files of all the jingles played just before Yamanote trains depart from the station.
Here are a few tasters:
Meguro (clockwise)
Shinagawa (clockwise)
Takadanobaba (anticlockwise)
I don’t know why yet, but I’m sure this will come in useful one day!
In preparing various proposals etc over the last few weeks, I looked again at some of my photos from SoPG: Yamanote Line.
In particular, these ones of queues outside a restaurant in Ōsaki:
I’ve resolved that next time I get a chance to work in Japan, I’m going to develop a project that relates to the time spent in these queues. I’m sure it could be a good forum for some exchanges. Being in the queue could be the the raison d’être for being in the queue. Perhaps others in the queue could recommend other good queues to be in…
I have now embarked on a tour of Tokyo.
My guide is a map from the back of a gallery postcard, with all the labels surgically removed.
My starting point is every station on the Yamanote railway line.
I’ve been doing it for 2 days now, and I’m halfway round. I don’t know where the map will take me, but there’s always something interesting to be found at the other end…
Update: this became the Sites of Potentiality: Yamanote Line project.
