Going To Work Every Day - Shinagawa Station, Japan
Quick highlights from the Olympics:
Wow. Japan is rocking it at the Olympic games. What a strong culture. I just watched men's volleyball against Argentina, cycling, women's wrestling, and men's gymnastics. Go Japan!
They also showed highlights from the 100m sprint, 100m butterfly, 100m backstroke. Usain Bolt from Jamaica set a new fricken world record for the 100m sprint of 9.69 seconds and is now coined the fastest man on Earth. He didn't even try all the way to the end! Once he noticed that he was leading the race towards the end, he extended his arms out a little knowing that the line he was making with his arms was in front of everyone, and coasted the rest of the race to the end line. Michael Phelps, coming into the Olympics with the goal of winning 8 gold medals (!!!) is at gold medal number 7. Geeeezus talk about dedication. He just won the 100m butterfly in 50.58 seconds!! The lucky b came 100th of a second in front of Serbia at 50.59. Australia came in third. Ah, I'm happy now. :)
Breaking news! The Men's 4x100m Medley Relay just finished. Phelps just won his 8th gold medal. Man! Japan was leading in front for a good portion of the race! USA = 1, Japan = 3. I The USA and Australia Relay Teams broke the old world record of 3:30.68 from 2004, USA winning with a 3:29.34 a new world record!
Anyways...
Going to work every day:
I made a couple videos of me going to work every morning, to show all of you! I thought you'd get a kick out of them. :) You'll need to click on them and pause them until they fully load. I need to figure out why the videos are taking so long to load, so I'll probably have to re-upload them on YouTube. Maybe I need to condense the file first (??); I'll have to do some research.
Video #1: Be patient! Loading time = very long. I'm walking down Shinagawa Station dodging poeple, where normally I see a huge and continuous herd of people wearing suits, button down shirts, and ties going to work. I wanted to walk against the crowd just for fun to show you all the people. I video taped it during a week long vacation week (national holiday), so it's not too packed. Normally, oh my god there are SO many people!!! Every time I tried to video tape with the full size of the crowd, things didn't go too well. :)
Video #2: Be Patient! Loading time = loooong. In this video, I'm going in the actual train - taking the Yamanote Line from Shinagawa Station to Shibuya Station. The lines going into the train are not too packed compared to most days, once again.
This is what I look like pretty much every day inside the Yamanote Line train going to work. 1. I'm taller than most people and can see tons of heads 2. I'm squeezed into a semi-air conditioned train with tons of people trying to take the same train.
On some days, people will be so packed, that you don't even have to hold on to something while the train is moving. You're squeezed like sardines with everyone else and won't go anywhere.
The funny thing, is that even amongst these crowds, you'll see people sleeping (sleeping while standing up, or also sitting on the few seats available). I've noticed a funny thing here in Tokyo and actually in Japan in general: There are a LOT of people who sleep on trains. We're talking around more than 3-5 people sleeping around me each time I'm taking a train. I think many people are in transit for over an hour, so I suppose it makes sense. I don't understand how they know when to wake up at the right time, though. They've apparently learned how to program a natural alarm clock when they hear their station announced on the mic.
But it was pretty funny when I was taking the bus around Kyoto a few weeks ago. I thought the sleeping factor was only referred to trains, but here I was on a bus around the city, and people would just pass out! The people sleeping could not have been on the bus for longer than 30 minutes. How can they just pass out?! It was around 2-3PM too! It's not like it was midnight. lol
Wow. Japan is rocking it at the Olympic games. What a strong culture. I just watched men's volleyball against Argentina, cycling, women's wrestling, and men's gymnastics. Go Japan!
They also showed highlights from the 100m sprint, 100m butterfly, 100m backstroke. Usain Bolt from Jamaica set a new fricken world record for the 100m sprint of 9.69 seconds and is now coined the fastest man on Earth. He didn't even try all the way to the end! Once he noticed that he was leading the race towards the end, he extended his arms out a little knowing that the line he was making with his arms was in front of everyone, and coasted the rest of the race to the end line. Michael Phelps, coming into the Olympics with the goal of winning 8 gold medals (!!!) is at gold medal number 7. Geeeezus talk about dedication. He just won the 100m butterfly in 50.58 seconds!! The lucky b came 100th of a second in front of Serbia at 50.59. Australia came in third. Ah, I'm happy now. :)
Breaking news! The Men's 4x100m Medley Relay just finished. Phelps just won his 8th gold medal. Man! Japan was leading in front for a good portion of the race! USA = 1, Japan = 3. I The USA and Australia Relay Teams broke the old world record of 3:30.68 from 2004, USA winning with a 3:29.34 a new world record!
Anyways...
Going to work every day:
I made a couple videos of me going to work every morning, to show all of you! I thought you'd get a kick out of them. :) You'll need to click on them and pause them until they fully load. I need to figure out why the videos are taking so long to load, so I'll probably have to re-upload them on YouTube. Maybe I need to condense the file first (??); I'll have to do some research.
Video #1: Be patient! Loading time = very long. I'm walking down Shinagawa Station dodging poeple, where normally I see a huge and continuous herd of people wearing suits, button down shirts, and ties going to work. I wanted to walk against the crowd just for fun to show you all the people. I video taped it during a week long vacation week (national holiday), so it's not too packed. Normally, oh my god there are SO many people!!! Every time I tried to video tape with the full size of the crowd, things didn't go too well. :)
Video #2: Be Patient! Loading time = loooong. In this video, I'm going in the actual train - taking the Yamanote Line from Shinagawa Station to Shibuya Station. The lines going into the train are not too packed compared to most days, once again.
This is what I look like pretty much every day inside the Yamanote Line train going to work. 1. I'm taller than most people and can see tons of heads 2. I'm squeezed into a semi-air conditioned train with tons of people trying to take the same train.
On some days, people will be so packed, that you don't even have to hold on to something while the train is moving. You're squeezed like sardines with everyone else and won't go anywhere.
The funny thing, is that even amongst these crowds, you'll see people sleeping (sleeping while standing up, or also sitting on the few seats available). I've noticed a funny thing here in Tokyo and actually in Japan in general: There are a LOT of people who sleep on trains. We're talking around more than 3-5 people sleeping around me each time I'm taking a train. I think many people are in transit for over an hour, so I suppose it makes sense. I don't understand how they know when to wake up at the right time, though. They've apparently learned how to program a natural alarm clock when they hear their station announced on the mic.
But it was pretty funny when I was taking the bus around Kyoto a few weeks ago. I thought the sleeping factor was only referred to trains, but here I was on a bus around the city, and people would just pass out! The people sleeping could not have been on the bus for longer than 30 minutes. How can they just pass out?! It was around 2-3PM too! It's not like it was midnight. lol
posted by Rita Schiesser at
08:44
1 Comments:
Ri!!!! What awesome videos! Thanks for taking them! Do you always have to walk against the traffic or do people stay on the right and walk in the same direction? Even more crowded then the trains in NYC...
HUGS
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sarahk, at 2:46 PM
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