{"id":875,"date":"2013-03-11T15:18:25","date_gmt":"2013-03-11T15:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=875"},"modified":"2016-07-23T04:53:59","modified_gmt":"2016-07-23T04:53:59","slug":"yamamote-line-walk-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Yamanote Line walk 1\/2"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had always wanted to walk the Yamanote Circle Line<\/a>\u00a0on foot and finally got around to doing the first half today. It was a good 20 kilometer march, ten of which I walked together with a friend of mine. The JR East operated line carries about 3.7 million people each working day, more than the entire London Underground network. The circle divides the city into two \u2013 the parts that lie within and those that lie outside.\u00a0 Almost every station connects you with another Metro or overland rail line. Cheap (love) hotels for those who didn\u2019t make their last train, pachinko parlours and restaurants dot the areas around the stops.<\/p>\n

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Where it began at 3pm – Gotanda Station in the south of the Yamamote Line ring<\/p>\n

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Big tower block near Shinagawa<\/p>\n

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Tokyo Monorail<\/a> on its way from Haneda Airport<\/p>\n

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Shinkansen near Tamachi Station<\/p>\n

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MacArthur Road from Shimbashi towards Toranomon, with Toranomon Hills<\/a> in the back<\/p>\n

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New Shimbashi Building<\/p>\n

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An old steam locomotive commemorating the fact that Shimbashi Station was the first railway station in Japan<\/p>\n

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In between the train tracks by Yurakucho Station, an interesting maze of restaurants and shady-looking backstreets<\/p>\n

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Marounochi, the area west of Tokyo Station<\/p>\n

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The famous Nihonbashi Bridge<\/a> is rather unspectacular given the motorway and rail lines that surround it<\/p>\n

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In between the tracks<\/p>\n

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The area between Akihabara and Okachimachi Station is worth seeing, also because of the (awkwardly named)\u00a02k540<\/a> craft shop district (two photos above)<\/p>\n

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Ueno Station<\/p>\n

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Near Ueno Park, one of the darkest stretches of the walk
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One of possibly 15,000 pachinko\/slot parlours I saw<\/p>\n

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One of possibly 10,000 love hotels along the way, this time near Nippori<\/p>\n

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Today’s walk finished in Sugamo, the “Harajuku of the old ladies” – apparently because there are loads of fashion stores catering to the older generations<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had always wanted to walk the Yamanote Circle Line\u00a0on foot and finally got around to doing the first half today. It was a good 20 kilometer march, ten of which I walked together with a friend of mine. The … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-tokyo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":908,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/benbansal.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}