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
14 - By-line, Setagaya Line
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 26 May 2022
- 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
Odakyū, change at Gotokuji. Down Stairs Exit. Cross-street to Setagaya Line. Yamashita-eki. Two stops to Shimo-Takaido. ¥140. Railtrain. Railmap. Railpoem
Yamashita-eki
Train-parking
The Setagaya Line gives you a number of sights, small-scale, agreeable, largely those of a well-heeled residential area. Back and forth Yamashita to Shimo-Takaido two especially reach out for notice.
Mid-way is Matsubara-eki. There, to the right side in the direction of Shimo-Takaido), is pinioned on to the back of a house nothing less than a train-carriage facade. Two bumpers. Driver and/or guard-window. Red and cream. Left side signal arm at rest. You look at it one train-to-another, working carriage to retired carriage. Home, the heart, is where the railway is?
The other sight (left side heading towards Shimo-Takaido) gives the promise of relaxation, the body in spiritual harmony with the spirit. Or it almost does. The name of the place wonderfully jars. Massage Factory.
BOROICHI
Twice a year, December and January, there is Setagaya Boroichi, the so-called Rag Market with origins in the sixteenth century. Kind of better-class flea market. Antiques, collectables, eats. Eight hundred or so stalls and a nearly quarter-million browsers and buyers. And situated between the Setagaya and Kamimachi stops on the Setagaya Line. Day-time throngs. Night-time lit by chains of bulbs. Old 78s. Magazines. Posters, Ceramics. Furniture. Coins. Fossils (or fake fossils). Munchies from niku manjū (buns made of pork filling) to cotton candy. Old and young foragers. Street buzz. Street cheerfulness. Relaxed market Japan – with the flash and click of photography everywhere. The Setagaya Line two-car trains are never fuller.
Shimo-Takaido Eki
Shimo-Takaido Station
Shimo Takaido
Keio Line
Upstairs
Mall.
Japan
Train Mall
One
Two
Three
Four
Five Train
Mall
1. FROMENT D’OR. Bakery and Cafe. Cakes and bread. Drinks. As in all Japanese bakeries select choice by large hygienic tweezers. Then tray. Legend – by-the-door:
Nous efforcons de communicer (sic) la culture alimentaire francaise en vous apportant un produit s’attachant a l’art du pain dans sa matiere et sa fabrication
2. YOSHINOYA. All-orange decor beef rice-bowl eatery. Massive popularity. In and out eating.
3. QB: ‘JUST CUT HAIR’. \1000. Three chairs, two employees, one room.
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- Tokyo CommuteJapanese Customs and Way of Life Viewed from the Odakyū Line, pp. 57 - 62Publisher: Amsterdam University PressPrint publication year: 2011