#Seibu Line

[magical-magyars]

旧小田急8000形が西武ホワイトとスマイルカラーを施され、西武新宿線で試運転。新西武8000形は国分寺線で５月から営業運転　2025.5.2　花小金井駅～小平駅

[shirasuphoto]

No.482 Musashino 8 views

Enjoy the Love Live! Sunshine!! Stamp Rally!

Seibu Line in Tokyo and Saitama

A stamp rally in collaboration with Love Live! Sunshine!!, Seibu Railway, and Izu Hakone Railway is being held until July 27th, 2025! Ride the Seibu Line and collect character stamps! There are nine character stamps, and it will take about four hours to collect them all.

Archive;series 8 views No.480~

No.482　武蔵野八景

集めよう！ラブライブサンシャインスタンプラリー - 西武線

アーカイブ:八景シリーズ　No.480～

[slothfuljeremiah]

making me ride the harry potter train every day is a transphobic microaggression i hate tokyo

[koshigurajumy]

Jumy-M Seibu Shinjuku Line / 用があって練馬へ行く

[aquayurufuwatraveler]

2025.1.26 東京 西武池袋線　2417F+2419F 通過待ち

現存する最後の旧2000系2両編成2本で組んだ臨時往路

西武池袋線に残る4本の2000系8両編成

The last two of the early Seibu 2000 series still in existence, coupled together

The last four (on the Seibu Ikebukuro Line) of the Seibu New 2000 series

[legend-of-zelda-voices]

Compilation Post

Yūko Natsuyoshi

Part 1

Roles in LoZ: Marin (LA:Switch)

Main LU character: Marin

Some characters with the same voice:

Sasha Necron (The Misfit of Demon King Academy), Himeko Mashina (Show By Rock!! Mashumairesh!!), Rio Seibu (Shine Post), Akane (Pokemon Masters), Mia (To Your Eternity)

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In the game:

Link's Awakening: Switch

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Speaking

Mia from To Your Eternity

She speaks throughout the entire video, but some times are 0:00, 0:03, 0:18, 0:35, 0:51, and 1:32.

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Rio Seibu from Shine Post

Rio is the one with long blonde hair and reddish eyes.

Some times she speaks are 0:11, 0:17, 0:25, 1:05, 1:43, and 1:48.

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Akane from Pokémon Masters

A few times are 0:00, 0:52, 1:33, 1:46, and 1:53.

A few times are 0:00, 0:46, 1:02, and 1:38.

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Voice Samples from Yuko Natsuyoshi

Line 1 at 0:00, Line 2 at 0:23, Line 3 at 0:46, Line 4 at 1:01, Line 5 at 1:16, Line 6 at 1:30, Line 7 at 1:53, Line 8 (some singing here) at 2:10, Narration 1 at 2:31, Narration 2 at 2:49, Narration 3 at 3:15, Narration 4 at 3:37, and Free Talk at 3:58.

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Part 2 - Click Here

[guerrerense]

『Red Revival』 por Carlos Ferran Por Flickr: Sunlight begins to fade over Mt. Buko on a beautiful autumn evening, while below a Seibu 4000 Series climbs out of Chichibu city on a local service for Hanno. This 4000 Series is painted in a unique retro red and cream scheme to celebrate the 55th Anniversary of the opening of the Seibu-Chichibu Line, and to pay homage to the E851 Series electrics that once hauled freight for the Seibu Railway. Seibu-Chichibu Line Seibu 4000 Series (Chichibu Line 55th Anniversary Train) Chichibu, Saitama Pref., Japan

[newtypezaku]

Yeah, I think I'll watch the show about the cursed Seibu Line

[tokyowalking]

Higashiyamato City Japan 🇯🇵

東大和市　東京🇯🇵

Higashiyamato City is a city located in the northern part of the Tama region of Tokyo. It was incorporated as a city in 1970 and has a population of 85,230 as of July 1, 2023.

Higashiyamato City is a comfortable city where nature and the city are in harmony. The rich nature of Tama Hills remains in the city, and you can enjoy the chirping of wild birds and seasonal flowers. Additionally, four lines, the JR Chuo Line, Seibu Tamako Line, Seibu Kokubunji Line, and JR Musashino Line, are in service, providing good access to the city center.

Higashiyamato City is a city that also puts effort into childcare support. The city is well-equipped with child-rearing support centers, children's centers, nursery schools, kindergartens, and other facilities, providing an environment conducive to raising children.

Higashiyamato City is also known as a city that respects diversity. The city has facilities such as the Multicultural Exchange Center and the International Exchange Hall, and many foreign residents live here.

Higashiyamato City is an easy-to-live-in city rich in nature, and it is also a city that focuses on child-rearing support and multicultural exchange.

[yuriskies]

Shuumatsu Train EP 9 thoughts

I think this episode firmed up my interpretation of Shuumatsu Train as a story contrasting digital and physical connection. Spoilers after break

Now that the story has tipped its hand with regards to Yoka's situation, we find she's at the center of a conspiracy by Poison Pontaro to cover his tracks following the disaster of the 7G rollout. Some vaguely organized thoughts with regards to the world building.

1a. Yoka is only dimly aware of what's happening, having no real memories of the pre-7G world. She effectively is the center of the universe, with apparently unlimited ability to shape the world to her liking. Yoka is treated like a princess, but actual power rests in Donaro's hands. He subtly manipulates the situation to distance himself from the responsibility for the world he had a hand in creating, quietly stoking peoples' anger towards Yoka by making her the visible face of 7G while goading her into being the enforcement arm against malcontents.

This dynamic mirrors how we've seen Big Tech operate over the last decade: portraying their systems as a tool for individual creativity and empowerment, and in doing so distancing themselves from the flaws in those systems by discussing their downsides as the effects of individual bad actors. For example, Facebook's enabling of the Rohingya genocide through proactively boosting hate speech to drove engagement-based ad sales was initially framed as demogogues finding a way to connect with one another. Individuals may drive problems, but they are often enabled through fundamentally broken technological ecosystems.

2. This previous point is underlined by Yoka turning a man into egg custard which Kontaro excitedly runs over to eat. Violence was literally transmuted into a commodity.

3. Yoka's world is one where discomforting and confusing things can simply be zapped away. Through both experience and design, learning is framed as antagonistic experience to her. She sees a world that hates her, and what she is allowed to see is presented as the normal state of things. Yoka is able to use her powers to avoid the process of growing, but that ultimately in the dark about her own situation or how it is manipulated. Hence why "the Witch Queen of Ikebukuro is like staring into an abyss...made up for mystery, fear, and the unknown". She is powerful, but in remaining unaware of her own power or alternatives to workings of the world, she remains merely a tool for someone else's dirty work. In the meantime, she remains isolated and is increasingly unstable.

In contrast, the physical journey of the Apogee crew has exposed them to the diversity of human experience, both good and bad. In response, they have been forced to grow and redefine themselves. They are increasingly aware of how the world operates, and are equipping themselves with the tools to confront it. It's clear Shizuku may be in deep denial about how hurtful she was to Yoka and her changing position in her emotional universe (not vocalizing her regrets like the others in the previous episode, shock followed by the insistence she knows something that always stays the same), but she is being repeatedly told that moving forward - or even just keeping things the same - is a proactive process.

4. There is a connection being drawn here between online bubbles and cosmology. The swan boat dude disappeared off one end of the Ikebukuro-Seibu line and reappeared on the other. It is what you would expect to happen in a closed universe with curved spacetime - travel far enough in a straight line and you'll end up where you started. The "expansion" of Ikebukuro is itself a bubble universe, and both Zenjiro's rambling about Ikebukuro being a miniature version of cosmic expansion and the broken tracks on the swan boat dude's map are getting at this. The implication that Yoka's bubble will have to be popped to reconnect with her friends.

[magical-magyars]

石神井川沿いの桜並木を行く西武新宿線スマイルトレイン　2025.4.7 　東伏見駅～武蔵関駅

[shirasuphoto]

No.483 Izu 8 views

Enjoy the collaboration with Love Live! Sunshine!

Sunzu Line in Shizuoka

Izuhakone Railway, a member of the Seibu Group, is holding a stamp rally in collaboration with "Love Live! Sunshine!!" until July 27, 2025. You can enjoy the stamp rally while taking photos with characters that have collaborated with taxis and trains, as well as life-size character panels. However, the stamps are scattered along the Sunzu Line, and I collected nine character stamps between 9:30 a.m., when the rally started, and 4 p.m., one hour before it ended.

Archive;series 8 views No.480~

No.483　伊豆八景

コラボと楽しもう！　ラブライブサンシャインスタンプラリー - 伊豆箱根鉄道駿豆線

アーカイブ:八景シリーズ　No.480～

[toytraint]

seibu yellow line train

＃西武鉄道

#池袋線

#石神井公園駅

#有楽町線開通40周年記念車両

#6000系

#黄色帯ラッピング

#新旧カラー並び

#seibu_railways

#ikebukuro_line

#shakujiikohen_station

#yuurakucyo_line_40th

#memorial_color

#yellow_line_train

✱昼の東横線に乗入れないので石神井公園駅まで行ってみた。

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[inelegantsquid]

Akshuallyyyy, JR East and Central are profitable operationally (primarily through the Shinkansen services). I think JR West is also. Kyushu, Hokkaido, Shikoku and JR Freight are not profitable, and will never be, but despite this, are under constant pressures to rationalise, cut and abolish. Since the privatisation in 1987, Hokkaido has shed 2/3 of its network, and closures have continued to this day. Service frequencies are also not that good on many lines, and often subject to cuts. The governments pro-car agenda prevails and new motorways are constantly approved as railways close and use dwindles (motorways that, too, will never make up for their costs, obviously). There is a concern that the new dumb Chuo shinkansen, the maglev between Tokyo and Nagoya, will decimate JRC's profitability by reducing the ridership on the Tokaido Shinkansen and in turn funnelling it into the more expensive system. While Europe saw most of its railway cutbacks in the years from 1950 to 1980, and thereafter often stopped closures and even restored some lines, this is not true in Japan; the closures dramatically increased at this date, because prior to this, the LDP leaderships generally used the railways as a developmental tool. The various Beeching axes prepared at various times in the 1960's and 70's were ignored, and new rural line construction continued until the 1977 stoppage.

It's worth noting that the Japanese state railways in 1984 was, on the whole, profitable (after debt transfers to the central government done as a preparation for the eventual privatisation). But the anti-labour Nakazone government was determined to crush the unions, and the way to do this was by splitting and privatising the undertaking (this was the intentional purpose). Tens of thousands of workers were blacklisted for being in unions and were refused rehiring by the new private companies (that did remain state owned for a while--indeed, the unprofitable ones remain majority state owned because no one wants to buy.)

Several of the private commuter railways are, however, also not profitable in operations, and make most of their income from retail and property stuff adjacent to the railways--like Odakyu and Seibu. As a general rule, long-distance services are more likely to be operationally profitable than commuter services.

In short, Japan's railways are in a death spiral of rationalisation, outside of Tokyo and Osaka.

People who talk about what population density is necessary to "justify" a rail system are wrong but they're wrong in the opposite way from how they think. Even in Japan which has more than twice the population density of China the rail system is not profitable. JR makes most of its profit by operating malls and collecting rent from vendors. If you blindly follow profit instead of considering the broader social benefits the result will always be putting your rail system into a death spiral of rationalization. Stop expecting public transport to turn a profit that's not what it exists for.

[aquayurufuwatraveler]

2012.5.12~2025.5.26 東京 西武新宿線

2025.6.13の営業運転を最後に西武線から引退の西武旧2000系

The Seibu 2000 series early model, which will retire from service on the Seibu Line after its last operation on June 13, 2025

[shiroomo]

Grand Suite Nakaochiai

Recommended for families, this area is close to Shinjuku and Ikebukuro and offers a quiet residential environment. With supermarkets, convenience stores, and Ochiai Central Park nearby, it seems like a great place to maintain a good work-life balance. 69.8 million yen, built in 2004, 10 minutes from Seibu Shinjuku Line Shimoochiai Station, 60 m², 2LDK, 4th floor