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.)

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.

Table of Contents

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