A long row of people stand on platform 22 at Central Station, Sydney waiting for the train going around the city circle via St James.
Tag Archives: train station
An empty station
The station is empty. Even the station staff have gone home. Maybe I was leaving work a little late on the night I took this.
Vending machine sign maintenance
Worker fixing the sign mounted atop a ticket vending machine on Town Hall station, Sydney. Apparently the sign is there to spruik the fact the machine also takes Eftpos. Unfortunately this has creating a longer queue in front of the vending machine next to it.
Nano big at Shinjuku station
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Tagged as advertisment, Apple, iPod, Japan, Nano, Shinjutu, Tokyo, train station
Tagged as advertisment, Apple, iPod, Japan, Nano, Shinjutu, Tokyo, train station
As you leave Shinjuku station via the west exit you can’t but notice the mass of advertising for Apple iPod Nano. The rise between the pedestrian level and the ceiling has a ring of iPod advertisements (pictured below). And many of the pillars had the same advertisement on each side.
While this may seem like overkill, here in Tokyo I have seen a whole train covered in advertisements for one product. All the ads on the walls and hanging from the ceiling conveyed the same message. And the same video ads in the train playing over and over again.
It seems that advertising campaigns here in Tokyo can be overwhelming, but short in duration, and then disappear like the last season.
For those interested, the ads say “Nano 色いろ” (iroiro). The Kanji means ‘colour’, and is pronounced ‘iro’. The Hiragana that follows is also pronounced the same. The pun being that, いろいろ, pronounced ‘iroiro’, means ‘various’.
Post from Japan
No posts here for most of a month. But had no time to post anything. Too much time spent on relocation. To Japan that is.
Japan is interesting, but moving is a lot of work in the first few days and weeks. I’ll post more thoughts here as time allows.
In the mean time you can have a look at the first Tokyo train station accident I saw.
(I think the cleaner was a little worried about me taking photos of it 
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