Tokyo Commute

Tokyo Commute

Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line

  • Author: Lee, Robert
  • Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781912961207
  • Place of publication:  Amsterdam , Netherlands
  • Year of digital publication: 2011
  • Month: April
  • Pages: 224
  • Language: English
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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