Tokyo Commute : : Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line / / Robert Lee.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Amsterdam University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Lee, Robert,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press, , [2022]; ©2011
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (214 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; 1. Odakyū-sen --; 2. Shinjuku Station --; 3. Shinjuku --; 4. Mukō gaoka-yūen North 19 --; 5. Mukō gaoka-yūen South --; 6. Mukōgaoka-yūen Platform --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781912961207; 9783111023786; 9783110662788
• DOI: 10.1515/9781912961207?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Robert Lee.

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.