Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Odakyū-sen
- 2 Shinjuku Station
- 3 Shinjuku
- 4 Mukōgaoka-yūen North
- 5 Mukōgaoka-yūen South
- 6 Mukōgaoka-yūen Platform
- 7 January Monday
- 8 Odakyū Notables
- 9 Odakyū Line Sounds Familiar
- 10 Train Notices
- 11 Odakyū Commercials
- 12 February Tuesday
- 13 Odakyū Keitaispracht
- 14 By-line, Setagaya Line
- 15 March Wednesday
- 16 Odakyū Day-out Sendagi
- 17 Shimo-Kitazawa
- 18 Bicycle!
- 19 Odakyū Bike Interview – Toda-san
- 20 International Interlude via Narita Airport
- 21 Keitai Train Culture
- 22 April Thursday
- 23 Odakyū Tamagawa
- 24 Station Sights
- 25 Odakyū-sen, Yoyogi-Hachiman Eki
- 26 May Friday
- 27 Mukoōgaoka-yūen, Day for Night
- 28 Odakyū Day-out, Hakone
- 29 June Saturday
- 30 Odakyū Commercials
- 31 Odakyū Smokes
- 32 By-line, Nambu Line
- 33 Odakyū Bag Watch
- 34 Seijo Times
- 35 Odakyū Day-out, Yokohama
- 36 July Sunday
- 37 Odakyū Trains of Thought
- 38 Train Signs, Train Sounds
- 39 By-line, Tama Express
- 40 August Monday
- 41 Odakyū Day-out, Chiba
- 42 September Tuesday
- 43 Odakyū Lady-grooming
- 44 Odakyū and Near-Odakyū Women’s Hairday
- 45 Odakyū Evenings-out
- 46 October Wednesday
- 47 Odakyū Day-out, Ibaraki
- 48 Chikan! Odakyū Misbehaviour
- 49 November Thursday
- 50 Odakyū Blues
- 51 Odakyū Men’s Haircut
- 52 Odakyū Day-out, Ō-Sumo
- 53 December Friday
- 54 Odakyū Store
- 55 Odakyū Bookshelf
- 56 Last Train
- Glossary
- Frontmatter
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- 1 Odakyū-sen
- 2 Shinjuku Station
- 3 Shinjuku
- 4 Mukōgaoka-yūen North
- 5 Mukōgaoka-yūen South
- 6 Mukōgaoka-yūen Platform
- 7 January Monday
- 8 Odakyū Notables
- 9 Odakyū Line Sounds Familiar
- 10 Train Notices
- 11 Odakyū Commercials
- 12 February Tuesday
- 13 Odakyū Keitaispracht
- 14 By-line, Setagaya Line
- 15 March Wednesday
- 16 Odakyū Day-out Sendagi
- 17 Shimo-Kitazawa
- 18 Bicycle!
- 19 Odakyū Bike Interview – Toda-san
- 20 International Interlude via Narita Airport
- 21 Keitai Train Culture
- 22 April Thursday
- 23 Odakyū Tamagawa
- 24 Station Sights
- 25 Odakyū-sen, Yoyogi-Hachiman Eki
- 26 May Friday
- 27 Mukoōgaoka-yūen, Day for Night
- 28 Odakyū Day-out, Hakone
- 29 June Saturday
- 30 Odakyū Commercials
- 31 Odakyū Smokes
- 32 By-line, Nambu Line
- 33 Odakyū Bag Watch
- 34 Seijo Times
- 35 Odakyū Day-out, Yokohama
- 36 July Sunday
- 37 Odakyū Trains of Thought
- 38 Train Signs, Train Sounds
- 39 By-line, Tama Express
- 40 August Monday
- 41 Odakyū Day-out, Chiba
- 42 September Tuesday
- 43 Odakyū Lady-grooming
- 44 Odakyū and Near-Odakyū Women’s Hairday
- 45 Odakyū Evenings-out
- 46 October Wednesday
- 47 Odakyū Day-out, Ibaraki
- 48 Chikan! Odakyū Misbehaviour
- 49 November Thursday
- 50 Odakyū Blues
- 51 Odakyū Men’s Haircut
- 52 Odakyū Day-out, Ō-Sumo
- 53 December Friday
- 54 Odakyū Store
- 55 Odakyū Bookshelf
- 56 Last Train
- Glossary
Summary
Out you step, a bit different from the North side. More commercial than the North, a shopping area. Greatly neonlit at night. Taxi cabs, bus stops, a student gathering-place. Tissue handers-out, occasional pensioner-groups, and from time to time Jehovah's Witnesses with pamphlets. Live variety. Intersections.
DLK
In time-honoured Japanese usage Dining room, Living room, Kitchen.The whole esplanade is dotted with fudōsan, estate agents. Window after window of rental-offices advertise rooms, apartments, occasional houses. This is student turf so there are endless one-room or two-room units up for rent. They take their place close to any number of izakayas (lit. ‘liquor store where you linger’ or, in another version, a pub). Centre of the road is bike-parking where there used to be a monorail leading to the Mukōgaoka Amusement Park (Big Amusement Wheel, outdoor theatre, stalls, walkways). The Tsutaya store has floors of CDs, DVDs and videos. There are drug stores and a Games Centre with its youth pinball wizards. Small-rise buildings abound, one topped by a huge bowling-pin, another advertising ‘The West of England College’ (a one-floor language operation), a third the Jinke Trading Company. A mild uphill walk and you can visit Nihon Minka-en in Ikuta Park, a museum site of twenty or so reconstructed East Japan period houses, no small contrast with the shoe-boxes of modern Tokyo. Add yet other nooks and you have a whole if small-scale home and away – Mizuho and like bankbranches, coffee or doughnut shops, a kōban (small police office), flower shops, newspaper kiosks and optical stores, the shoe emporium ABC-MART, and the inevitable American fast-food, McDonalds (makudonarudo), KFC (kentakkī furaido chikin) and Jonathans (jonasan). DLKs. Shopping. Odakyū trains. Mukōgaoka-yūen. All yours.
BREAD-SHOP WITH PASTRY-AND-COFFEE CAFÉ
SCANDINAVIAN NATURAL ROMAN HOKUO (Since 1979). Viking loaves in Mukōgaoka-yūen? You select your bread or cake with a large pair of golden-coloured pincers with plastic orange handles, place everything on the tray, and head to the counter to pay. Hygiene worthy of a hospital operating theatre, even though on the outside parapet there is the faint inscription, a phrase to relish, Scandinavia's Smell.
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- Tokyo CommuteJapanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyū Line, pp. 28 - 31Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2011