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I wrote this post about this time last year, but I never published it. Blast from the past, here it is, in all its short glory.

This Saturday I rode the Yamanote Line around Tokyo while listening to JapanesePod101.com lessons on my iPhone.  I also used my DS to lookup Kanji that I saw on station signs.  Since Yamanote line runs in a circle, I simply got on at Shinjuku station - rode it all the way around back to Shinjuku - and got off, essentially paying nothing for a comfortable tour of Tokyo

That was all I wrote, and I haven’t rode the Yamanote train around Tokyo like that since then.

Interesting fact. The Yamanote line (only one of over 100 lines in Tokyo) carries more than 3.5 million passengers every day around its 29 stations. Compare that with the 5.08 million total passengers that are carried daily throughout New York’s 26 different lines and 468 stations.

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