Category: Trains

Trains

Yurikamome

Yurikamome line is one of my favorite railways in Japan. Is one of the main connections between Tokyo and Odaiba island. Is not really a train, neither a monorail… it works somehow using wheels and traveling on top of an elevated concrete structure. It doesn’t need a driver, everything is controlled by computers. Not having a driver means that you can sit down in the first wagon and enjoy incredible views as if you were controlling the train. I really enjoy Yurikamome line, I feel like I’m in Gotham or New Port

Views from the first wagon.

If you want to give it a try, go to Shinbashi station using Yamanote line and then change to Yurikamome line until Odaiba.

Darth Vader in Tokyo – The video

Post author By ageekinjapan
Post date June 11, 2007
5 Comments on Darth Vader in Tokyo – The video

Just finished editing Darth Vader/Dannychoo video. I usually edit my videos using iMovie, simple and easy!. It just took me three minutes to prepare this video.

Look how Darth Vader is also using a Suica card, so he can pay the train just approaching his hand to the reader and the force will help him pay. My favorite guy in the video is the one with the luggage who is walking down the stairs while Danny is moving his light saber near his head, he didn’t understand what was going on.

Trains

Naha monorail

When I was in Okinawa one of the most surprising things I found in Naha capital was that the main public transportation system is a monorail. Here are some pictures, so you can get a sense of how much they profit space, there are monorail tracks even above rivers!. Looking at the building nearby you will be able to appreciate how tall is the monorail.