A unique take on modern life in Japan’s capital city. A Japan of trains, every day to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. Each to be savoured through a specific Tokyo line – the Odakyu. Pitched as creative text and line-graphics, Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a ‘map’ of Shinjuku as key station and gathering-place, a run of notable Tokyo locations – from the National bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time visitors, and even regular commuters.
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1. Odakyū-sen
- 2. Shinjuku Station
- 3. Shinjuku
- 4. Mukō gaoka-yūen North
- 5. Mukōgaoka-yūen South
- 6. Mukōgaoka-yūen Platform North and South
- 7. January Monday
- 8. Odakyū Notables
- 9. Odakyū Line Sounds Familiar
- 10. Train Notices
- 11. Odakyū Commercials
- 12. February Tuesday
- 13. Odakyū Keitaispracht
- 14. By-line Setagaya Line
- 15. March Wednesday
- 16. Odakyū Day-out Sendagi
- 17. Shimo-Kitazawa
- 18. Bicycle!
- 19. Odakyū Bike Interview – Toda-san
- 20. International Interlude via Narita Airport
- 21. Keitai Train Culture
- 22. April Thursday
- 23. Odakyū Tamagawa
- 24. Station Sights
- 25. Odakyū-sen Yoyogi-Hachiman Eki
- 26. May Friday
- 27. Mukōgaoka-yūen Day for Night
- 28. Odakyū Day-out,Hakone
- 29. June Saturday
- 30. Odakyū Commercials
- 31. Odakyū Smokes
- 32. By-line, Nambu Line
- 33. Odakyū Bag Watch
- 34. Seijo Times
- 35. Odakyū Day-out,Yokohama
- 36. July Sunday
- 37. Odakyū Trains of Thought
- 38. Train Signs, Train Sounds
- 39. By-line, Tama Express
- 40. August Monday
- 41. Odakyū Day-out,Chiba
- 42. September Tuesday
- 43. Odakyū Lady-grooming
- 44. Odakyū and Near-Odakyū Women’s Hairday
- 45. Odakyū Evenings-out
- 46. October Wednesday
- 47. Odakyū Day-out, Ibaraki
- 48. Chikan! Odakyū Misbehaviour
- 49. November Thursday
- 50. Odakyū Blues
- 51. Odakyū Men’s Haircut
- 52. Odakyū Day-out, Ō-Sumo
- 53. December Friday
- 54. Odakyū Store
- 55. Odakyū Bookshelf
- 56. Last Train
- Glossary
- Back Cover
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