Wednesday 15 July 2009

June 2009: Minami-NagareYama to Shin YaHashira, Chiba, Japan


南流山--> (武蔵野線) -->新八柱

Minami NagareYama looks more and more like a suburb of Tokyo. From here a rapid Musashino line train will feed Tokyo with the salarymen and OLes every weekdays. There really isn't much to say about this place. At night, it is so quiet you sometimes wonder if the place is inhibited. The only thing of interest is that the MaiHama station seats on this line between Tokyo and Minami-NagareYama. And if you are a fan, you probably know this is the nearest station to the Tokyo Disney Land. And no, that is not the real Mickey.

After the first couple of weeks here, things have fallen into a routine, leave my place before 12:55pm, just in time to reach the platform for the 1:06pm Rapid in the direction of Tokyo for Shin YaHashira. The school here is supposed to be the language school in Japan to be located closest to a train station. How do I know? The guy at the school told me. And how did HE knows. Well, the Association of Japanese Language School or something like that told him. The tracks can be seen from the classroom. Curiously the rattle of the trains as they zoom pass don't seems to bother anyone.

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