The Yamanote Line heads into the Akihabara district. Credit: Alamy If you grabbed a map of Tokyo and drew a ring around all the best bits, you would end up with the Yamanote Line – otherwise ...

The Yamanote Line is perhaps the best-known railway line in Japan. Its 30 stations, including the newly built Takanawa Gateway, encircle the heart of Tokyo and define the city’s multilayered ...

Make the rounds of all 29 stations on the Yamanote Line and Tokyo no longer appears a cohesive city. It is a collection of self-contained towns, each with a train station instead of a town square.

Yamanote Line clocks — perfect for ... Information Architects Japan has produced a map emulating that of the Tokyo subway system and detailing the world's top 200 Web sites — from ...

Service will also be reduced along the rest of the Yamanote Line to up to about every 10 minutes as a result of the construction work and will run at different frequencies depending on the day.

Earlier this week, roughly 20,000 Tokyo commuters were forced to wait when a 40-year-old woman jumped onto the tracks of the Yamanote Line, one of the city's busiest train lines, and began to run.

On Saturday, October 19, 2024, hundreds of people will take part in the fifteenth Tokyo Yamathon, a charity walk along the JR Yamanote train line. Organized by the International Volunteer Group ...

Many Tokyoites will tell you that the best way to get to know their city is to travel station by station on the Yamanote Line. This commuter rail loop is one of Tokyo's original train lines -- it ...