Why don't I remember the Ueno station being an electronic office telephone ringtone...
Here is the correct Ueno melody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGaCcvBcDQc
Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
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#32They changed the melodies for a lot of the stations recently, I’ve noticed.
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#33Awww. I hadn't been to Tokyo since Covid and the tunes I remember have all changed. Used to like the Shibuya one.
I honestly need to pop up there to some Rust meetups. I always wind up discounting Tokyo, but I've met some smart people at the wrong times.
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#34Other lines have some bangers too - used to live in Koenji and Asagaya, love those.
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#35I'm also a fan of the Yamanote Line.
I made a psychedelic AI audio-visual collage inspired by it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwUSzUvShqcaa
I made field recordings during my last stay in Tokyo. From those, I made a song for each station of the Yamanote line, using the Jingle in the prompt. The visuals were made similarly.
Used mainly Suno, Udio, Runway and Ableton Live.
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#36I 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] [1] https://dc.watch.impress.co.jp/docs/news/1573062.html
Ah, my mistake — Bic Camera didn’t acquire Seibu’s site.
Seibu Ikebukuro was actually sold to Fortress, and then the property was transferred to Yodobashi Holdings, which is now planning the redevelopment. Bic Camera started in Ikebukuro, so it’s influential locally, but it wasn’t part of the acquisition.
Sources:
Wikipedia – Sogo & Seibu: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sogo_%26_Seibu SBbit – Seibu Ikebukuro redevelopment: https://www.sbbit.jp/article/cont1/144891
Re: Yamanot.es: A music box of train station melodies from the JR Yamanote Line
#37Unfortunately 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.
Huh.
https://kaisercougarconnection.com/2784/news/musical-trains-...
My impression is that all of the Yamanote line stations are above ground -- I'd have expected it to be possible to have "one button plays the right sound at each station" if you used a standard phone's GPS to figure out which station you were at.
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#38How do I get them as ringtones?
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#39My 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.
Is that a fancy dancy version of Sakura Sakura (probably the most famous Japanese folk song)?
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#40What interesting is, the implementation is completely simple multi pages HTML5/CSS/Vanilla JavaScript. No framework. And it just, works.