On a freezing morning in February 2014, while most of Tokyo hunkered down during a massive snowstorm, the author behind bsmasa stood on the platform at Kanazawa-Bunko Station .
The blog served as a digital museum for the specific jingles that play before a train arrives. For years, the author meticulously cataloged these sounds—from the seaside chimes of Yokosuka-Chuo to the bustling tones of Shinagawa—ensuring that even as stations modernized and melodies changed, the old sounds were never forgotten. blog,bsmasa,jp
While other commuters were frustrated by delays, they were filming a rare sight: a Keikyu 800 series train acting as an emergency snowplow, carrying a dozen workers to clear the tracks toward Uraga. On a freezing morning in February 2014, while
On a freezing morning in February 2014, while most of Tokyo hunkered down during a massive snowstorm, the author behind bsmasa stood on the platform at Kanazawa-Bunko Station .
The blog served as a digital museum for the specific jingles that play before a train arrives. For years, the author meticulously cataloged these sounds—from the seaside chimes of Yokosuka-Chuo to the bustling tones of Shinagawa—ensuring that even as stations modernized and melodies changed, the old sounds were never forgotten.
While other commuters were frustrated by delays, they were filming a rare sight: a Keikyu 800 series train acting as an emergency snowplow, carrying a dozen workers to clear the tracks toward Uraga.