{"id":351,"date":"2005-08-25T21:37:49","date_gmt":"2005-08-25T21:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/?p=351"},"modified":"2005-08-25T21:37:49","modified_gmt":"2005-08-25T21:37:49","slug":"new_line_in_tokyo_with_wifi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/new_line_in_tokyo_with_wifi\/","title":{"rendered":"New Line in Tokyo! With Wi-Fi!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new train line in Tokyo!<br \/>\nThe <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mir.co.jp\/\">Tsukuba Express<\/a> begins in Akihabara and ends in the college town of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.epochal.or.jp\/english\/04access\/access_ekusu_g.htm\">Tsukuba<\/a>, some 35 miles northeast of Tokyo.  Here&#8217;s some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mir.co.jp\/english_guide.pdf\">english info<\/a>.<br \/>\nWhy is this important?  Well, one of the stops it makes is Minami-Senju, the JR\/Subway stop where the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.juyoh.co.jp\">Juyoh<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newkoyo.jp\">New Koyo<\/a> and other low-cost lodgings are clustered around.  That means convenience!<br \/>\nBut what&#8217;s really cool is that <a href=\"http:\/\/australianit.news.com.au\/articles\/0,7204,16378189%5E15322%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html\">the train cars and five of the stations have Wi-Fi!<\/a>  It&#8217;s on a trial basis for now and I&#8217;m not sure how much this will cost, but it demonstrates that <em>it is possible<\/em>.<br \/>\nOf course, in San Francisco, this technology will probably be implemented after we get cell phone coverage in the trains and stations.<br \/>\nMaybe in the year 2100.  How &#8220;progressive&#8221;!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s a new train line in Tokyo! The Tsukuba Express begins in Akihabara and ends in the college town of Tsukuba, some 35 miles northeast of Tokyo. Here&#8217;s some english info. Why is this important? Well, one of the stops it makes is Minami-Senju, the JR\/Subway stop where the Juyoh, the New Koyo and other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/new_line_in_tokyo_with_wifi\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Line in Tokyo! With Wi-Fi!&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc-japan-stuff"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2mgIi-5F","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/walking-ixus.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}