"Yamanote Line Train Entering Shibuya Station - June 10th, 2009"

A Shinjuku-bound Yamanote Line train entering Shibuya Station. Looking down the curved platform with billboards on the right, and waiting soon-to-be passengers on the left. The Yamanote Line trains are 11-cars each, and if you watch closely, you can see that a couple of the cars have six doors per side instead of the usual four. The conductor is a woman, BTW. Engineers have to spend some time as conductors before running the train, so that's on the way.

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
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Travel & Events

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• Shibuya Station
• Yamanote Line
• Woman Conductor

[tachikaze222]

a woman conductor! never saw that in the 90s.

[lylehsaxon]

@tachikaze222 Yeah, it soon after that that railways began hiring women. There are now women engineers (drivers) as well. In another direction, when they put up platform walls on the Marunouchi Line, they eliminated the conductors, so now the Marunouchi Line only has one driver per train. They've begun putting platform walls on the Yamanote Line as well - starting with Ebisu Station), so they'll probably eliminate the conductors there too, once the walls are in place.

[Dominus357]

Why'd u cut the vid at halfway?

[lylehsaxon]

They were kind of slow to get the train moving again, so I cut out the waiting part. Yeah... maybe I should have just left that in... - LHS

[lylehsaxon]

PS - I took the whole thing, but then dropped that middle section in editing... - LHS

[lylehsaxon]

Yeah, I thought I'd get something current posted this time! I took it yesterday evening and posted it when I got home. No, that's not a subway, although it looks a bit like one in this video. The entire Yamanote loop line is a surface train, but some stations have department stores build over the tracks, and that's the case in Shibuya (and Ebisu, etc.). The line runs under (at second story level) the Tokyu Department Store. - LHS