How to Explore Japan By Train Without Ever Leaving Home

[ozbob]

Global Voices --> How to Explore Japan By Train Without Ever Leaving Home

There is an entire community of Japanese vloggers devoted to the genre of tenbo shaso (展望車窓), which roughly translates as "train observation car videos."

Basically, the vlogger, typically a trainspotter, sets up a video camera to look out a train window (車窓, or shaso, sometimes translated as syaso) and records the view for the entire journey.

There are two subgenres of tenbo shaso videos: "front view" (前面展望, senmen tenbo) taken from the front of the train, and "window view" (車窓, shaso / syaso) which records scenery as it passes by the passenger window.

Videos uploaded to YouTube typically run for at least a couple of hours, and are sometimes broken up into playlists to accommodate their long running time ... more > https://globalvoicesonline.org/2015/07/26/how-to-explore-japan-by-train-without-ever-leaving-home

[verbatim9]

Best railway station feature I've ever encountered: this traditional footbath (!!) in Kami-Suwa station. #japan http://t.co/oP05EIb0qI

[dancingmongoose]

Not sure where else to put this so here will do: http://www.straitstimes.com/asia/east-asia/remote-hokkaido-train-station-stays-open-for-one-high-school-girl-perhaps-not