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Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
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#22Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yes, it's that song. The station is named after a beer company that operates there, and they used their beer CM song for the station chime as well.
And the brewery got the name from Ebisu, a god who is believed to protect fishermen.
Yeah that's him you see on the Ebisu beer cans
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#23Why don't I remember the Ueno station being an electronic office telephone ringtone...
When you get this, I believe the actual song is missing
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#24Takadanobaba has always been my favorite. The Tetsuwan Atom theme song.
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#25My favourite, when I lived in Japan many years ago, was the Musashi-Koganei melody in Tokyo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cT2xTUPveCw
It stood very much in contrast with all the other jingles, and I simply loved it.
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#26How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?
Good question. The composer and artist of most of them in Japan is Minoru Mukaiya.[1] He's also the CEO of Ongakukan, which builds train simulators for both games and training. He's done over a hundred original station jingles.[2] Many of the Yamanote Line jingles are classics, though. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Mukaiya [2] https://www.ongakukan.co.jp/en/business/music/#melody
Seems like he has nothing to do with the Yamanote line melodies though.
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#27I listen to them every day.
By the way, Ikebukuro’s melody isn’t this one anymore. Bic Camera, an electronics retailer, acquired Seibu, and now their song is played instead. https://youtu.be/9Emi-ZAnnlc?si=G8iazo945capvT5T&t=221
It’s fun, isn’t it?
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#28How do I get them as ringtones?
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#29Unfortunately JR East has phasing out the custom melodies and have been standardizing the Yamanote line to always play the same tune. They are saying labor shortages are the reason since they need to press a physical button in the station in order to play the melody.
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#30I listen to them every day. By the way, Ikebukuro’s melody isn’t this one anymore. Bic Camera, an electronics retailer, acquired Seibu, and now their song is played instead. https://youtu.be/9Emi-ZAnnlc?si=G8iazo945capvT5T&t=221 It’s fun, isn’t it?
Seibu had nothing to do with it. BicCamera started in Ikebukuro and was influential in building up the area. The jingle change is a campaign as BicCamera is doing a cooperation with the ward to build it out more. See [1]