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Avatar Posted by ShaneS 39 days ago (http://blog.wired.com)
Category: Technology | Tags: transportation innovation bus train
This dual mode bus/train has four rubber wheels and four metal wheels which means it can go from the road to the track seamlessly. It's more fuel efficient too! read more »
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Avatar Posted by LongCountdown 20 days ago (http://www.pinktentacle.com)
Category: Anime & Otaku | Tags: train ticket astro boy tokyo art
What do you do with your used subway tickets? Most of us throw them away, right? Volunteers from Takashimaya and a few other Shinjuku-based businesses have kept theirs, all 138,000 of them, and built a huge mural of Astro Boy! read more »
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Avatar Posted by LongCountdown 182 days ago (http://www.rawsquid.com)
Category: Japan News | Tags: train accident eyewitness platform
Here's a moving story of a woman who fainted and fell from the platform as a train pulled into the station. She was wedged between the train and the platform and everyone rushed to her aid. Told by an eyewitness. read more »
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Avatar Posted by billywest 56 days ago (http://www.sevententotokyo.com)
Category: General Japan | Tags: japan train manners rude passengers
Come ride the rails with a Tokyo noob as he comes to understand the dark side of transportation in Tokyo. A new series at 7:10 called, 'Requiem For A Japan Rant.' read more »
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Avatar Posted by billywest 32 days ago (http://www.thetokyotraveler.com)
Category: General Japan | Tags: tokyo metro fukutoshin subway train
The New Fukutoshin line will connect Ikebukuro, Shinjuku, and Shibuya and will be a nice alternative to the Yamanote line for commuting between those areas.
From The Tokyo Traveler. read more »
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Avatar Posted by LongCountdown 198 days ago (http://news.yahoo.com)
Category: Technology | Tags: bus train ticket pass travel
If you regularly hop between Asia's biggest cities (which I can't imagine you'd want to with all that fingerprinting nonsense going on), you might be interested in Japan's plans to create a bus and train pass which can be used in all of Asia's major cities. Apparently Japan thinks this is a go read more »
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