It's still a dirty job, but new vomit vacuum will help Tokyo station staff do it
While your December agenda might be filled with joyful year-end parties, train station staff in Tokyo often face a more disgusting reality — vomit left behind by drunken holiday revelers at railway hubs across the capital. According to Tokyo-based cleaning company JR East Environment Access ...
Introducing the newest stop on Tokyo's Yamanote Line: Takanawa Gateway
A new station opening on Tokyo's Yamanote Line in 2020 will be named Takanawa Gateway, railway operator JR East announced Tuesday. JR East, also known as East Japan Railway Co., said the name of the station, under construction since February last year and located between ...
Land scam group sent Sekisui House payments to multiple accounts
Suspects in the case are believed to have sent payments from the major homebuilder to multiple accounts and remitted a part of the money overseas, investigative sources said Wednesday.
Partially completed Yamanote Line station, designed by Kengo Kuma, unveiled to media
A new station being built on Tokyo's Yamanote loop line was shown to the media Wednesday with around 70 percent of the construction work completed. The station, which has yet to be named but will be located between the current Shinagawa and Tamachi stops, will ...
East Japan Railway Co. said Tuesday it will ask the public to name a new station being built on Tokyo's Yamanote Line. The station — located between the existing Shinagawa and Tamachi stops on the Minato Ward waterfront — is tentatively scheduled to open in ...
Pair of 13-year-old girls killed by train in apparent double suicide
Two 13-year-old Tokyo girls are fatally struck by an express train on the Tokyu Oimachi Line in an apparent double-suicide.
Man held over apparent random stabbing outside Gotanda Station
Police investigating an apparently unprovoked stabbing on a Tokyo street have arrested a man in his 30s. The suspect, an unemployed man from Tokyo's Shinagawa Ward, reportedly told them he simply wanted to kill someone. He is suspected of attacking a man in his 60s with ...
Finding your sea legs on Tokyo Bay
It's wretched weather for putting out to sea: gusty winds, cloud banks brooding with rain and water spouts, temperatures a micro-notch above freezing and the waters of Tokyo Bay like wet elephant hide. Nonetheless, at the generous invitation of the Tokyo Metropolitan Government's Bureau ...
Shinagawa, a gateway to old and new Tokyo
In the Edo Period, Shinagawa was the first "shukuba machi," or "post station town" to be built on the Tokaido, the coastal road linking the bustling Nihonbashi district in Edo, then the de facto capital under the Tokugawa shogunate, to Kyoto, which remained the ...
