Ueno Station
About Ueno Station
Ueno Station is a major railway station in Tokyo's Taitō ward. It is the station used to reach the Ueno district and Ueno Park—which contains Tokyo National Museum, The National Museum of Western Art, Ueno Zoo, Tokyo University of the Arts and other famous cultural facilities. A major commuter hub, it is also the traditional terminus for long-distance trains from northern Japan, although with the extension of the Shinkansen lines to Tokyo Station this role has diminished in recent years. A similar extension of conventional lines extended Takasaki Line, Utsunomiya Line and Jōban Line services to Tokyo Station via the Ueno-Tokyo Line in March 2015, using existing little-used tracks and a new viaduct; the Ueno-Tokyo Line connects these lines with the Tōkaidō Main Line, allowing through services to Shinagawa, Yokohama, Odawara and Atami stations.
On the show
I had a few hours free in Ueno Station in Tokyo at the end of last year and I decided to count how many people were wearing medical masks, because in Japan if you have a cold or a cough it's considered polite to wear one of the masks. The answer was really annoying because it was a perfectly neat number.
from 6: No Such Thing As One Direction in North Korea, 2014-04-11 at 00:18:31 · read transcript
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