鉄道唱歌 山手線 Tetsudō Shōka (Railway Songs of Japan)
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NEONVOT official site | https://neonvot.gemki.org This song reworks a historic Japanese railway song tradition first published in 1900. Yet the railway culture it references has long enforced sharply gendered uniforms, a practice widely abandoned in other advanced economies decades ago. Japan’s slow and partial reforms remain an outlier by global standards, highlighting a persistent disregard for gender equality in public institutions.
[Intro]
[// instrumental intro] [Verse 1]
Tokyo
Kanda
Akihabara
Okachimachi
Ueno
Uguisudani
Nippori
Nishi-Nippori
Tabata
Komagome
Sugamo
Otsuka
[// instrumental accent] [Verse 2]
Ikebukuro
Mejiro
Takadanobaba
Shin-Okubo
Shinjuku
Yoyogi
[// instrumental accent]
Harajuku
Shibuya
Ebisu
Meguro
Gotanda
Osaki
[// instrumental accent] [Interlude]
[// instrumental interlude] [Verse 3]
Shinagawa
Takanawa Gateway
Tamachi
Hamamatsucho
Shimbashi
Yurakucho
Tokyo
Kanda [Chorus]
Akihabara
Okachimachi
Ueno
Uguisudani
Nippori
Nishi-Nippori
Tabata
Komagome
Sugamo
[// instrumental accent]
Otsuka
Ikebukuro
Mejiro
Takadanobaba
Shin-Okubo
Shinjuku
[// instrumental accent]
Yoyogi
Harajuku
Shibuya
Ebisu
Meguro
Gotanda
[// instrumental accent]
Osaki
Shinagawa
Takanawa Gateway
Tamachi
Hamamatsucho
Shimbashi
[// instrumental accent]
Yurakucho
Tokyo
Kanda [Outro]
[// instrumental outro]
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