TY - BOOK ID - 101470367 TI - Tokyo Commute: Japanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyu Line PY - 2011 SN - 1912961202 1898823065 1898823057 PB - Amsterdam University Press DB - UniCat KW - Railroads KW - Commuting traffic. KW - Odakyū Dentetsu Kabushiki Kaisha. KW - Japan KW - Japan. KW - Japon KW - Moeurs et coutumes. KW - Social life and customs. KW - bunraku. KW - daily commuting. KW - hakone. KW - japanese etiquette. KW - japanese routine. KW - shinjuku station. KW - yokohama. KW - Iron horses (Railroads) KW - Lines, Railroad KW - Rail industry KW - Rail lines KW - Rail transportation KW - Railroad industry KW - Railroad lines KW - Railroad transportation KW - Railway industry KW - Railways KW - Communication and traffic KW - Concessions KW - Public utilities KW - Transportation KW - Trusts, Industrial KW - Odakyū KW - Odakyū Electric Railway Company KW - 小田急電鉄株式会社 KW - Tōkyō Kyūkō Dentetsu Kabushiki Kaisha KW - al-Yābān KW - Giappone KW - Government of Japan KW - Iapōnia KW - I︠A︡ponii︠a︡ KW - Japam KW - Japani KW - Japão KW - Japonia KW - Japonsko KW - Japonya KW - Jih-pen KW - Mư̄ang Yīpun KW - Nihon KW - Nihon-koku KW - Nihonkoku KW - Nippon KW - Nippon-koku KW - Nipponkoku KW - Prathēt Yīpun KW - Riben KW - State of Japan KW - Yābān KW - Yapan KW - Yīpun KW - Zhāpān KW - Япония KW - اليابان KW - يابان KW - 日本 KW - 日本国 KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101470367 AB - A unique take on modern life in Tokyo, Japan's capital city. A Japan of trains, everyday to and fro, carriage scenes and theatre, vistas from the window, advertising posters. Each to be savoured through a specific Tokyo line - the Odakyu. Pitched as creative text and colour illustrations, 'Tokyo Commute' offers on-track and off-track observations. A gallery of mirrors, musings, memories. This is less documentary than iconography, a poetics of Japanese routine and etiquette. It offers a wry diary of month-and-weekday observations, a 'map' of Shinjuku as key station and gathering place, a run of notable Tokyo locations - from the national bunraku theatre to a Kawasaki sludge recycling centre. Other Odakyu travel involves the Hakone open air art gallery, Narita as both airport and temple-complex, Yokohama as history and Chinatown. Essential reading for first-time, and second-time, visitors, and even regular commuters. ER -