"Weeknight Trip Home - September 1990"

Typical Tokyo Street scenes, walking around in this mega-city of lights, and then the stations and trains encountered on the way home. On the trains, more actual human (live) voices, instead of the bloody recordings that are increasingly used these days. Interesting city this, but with all the constant lights & noise, one ends up dreaming of trees, grass, light breezes, rustling leaves, and a place free of machines and concrete.... (Trains in video: Saikyo Line & Seibu-Ikebukuro Line)

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
http://www5d.biglobe.ne.jp/~LLLtrs/
http://uk.youtube.com/lylehsaxon

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• Tokyo
• night
• commute
• Shinjuku
• Ikebukuro
• Seibu
• Line
• Hibarigaoka

[muchagecko]

We used to get a kick out of hearing the different conductors make their announcements on the subways in NYC. You usually couldn't understand what they were saying, so enthusiasm or lack of mattered.

Nice video. Once again I'm in the mood for time travel.

[lylehsaxon]

Same here for the announcements. I really wish they would turn off the recordings and go back to live announcements. The "driver" now just presses a start button and sits there while the computer drives the train, and the conductor doesn't do much besides just opening and closing the doors. Time travel - I sure wish I could jump back to various places in time with my video camera! (Aside from my 1990-92 stuff that is.) - LHS

[Dominus357]

That speaker voice at 1:45 is kinda dreamy, very relaxed :D

[lylehsaxon]

Back when the announcements were nearly always made by human beings (as opposed to robot-like recordings), the people making them would get inventive and add some style to the announcements from time-to-time. Also, as a passenger on a train, it feels nicer to hear from a fellow human being also riding on the train in real time, as opposed to a recording of some stiff person in a recording booth, that then repeats and repeats and repeats, day after day, week after week, year after year.... - LHS

[lylehsaxon]

In some places! That's out in the 'burbs after taking a 'burbs express away from central Tokyo. At the same time of night, there would be a lot more people in Shinjuku, Shibuya, etc. - LHS

[ChocoBanana777]

Nahaha～

So the alleys do empty at night... all of a sudden it's quet. ^^