On Tuesday, January 5th, 2010, I headed to my local train station, as usual, to head toward the Tennoji section of Osaka. The traditional new year’s holiday is called o-shogatsu, an honorific term referring to it being the start of the first month of the new year, and typically strings along from the first to [...]
“Progress is unstoppable”, so they say. This week, the nice people who run the Kintetsu train line in Osaka unveiled new digital display boards at the Tsuruhashi train station. Personally, I really like the old ones, which are the kind of “flip sign” destination boards that were all the rage at the most modern international [...]
