Scenes in a train
Sometimes the trains are calm, clean escapes from the rat race outside. Such was the case on the Saturday I took the above photo on the Tokyo Tozai Metro line. But then you get a rebel rouser on board who shakes everything up…
You should have heard the thunderous applause! I had to pop some earplugs in and change trains at the next stop to save my eardrums.
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September 16th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I really look forward to your daily posts! They bring back so many memories of my two trips to Japan…
September 17th, 2009 at 5:06 am
Or were they all sleeping? The English on that T-shirt made sense – not always as I remembered it back in 1989.