MONORAIL!

[mr. sparkle]

Ya gots ta love the monorail.....

Check out this "monorail enthusiast" site that has pictures of all of the monorails in Japan - there's a good number of 'em. Have you ever rode in one?

I'm such a geek....
I wanna try the one in Tama and the other newish one in Naha. The Shonan one is pretty cool too 'cause it's suspended from a beam.


Naha Monorail

[maninjapan]

Man that shonan monorail is some scary sh^t going on when you've had a few too many!

[GuyJean]

Have you ever rode in one?

I've ridden the Tokyo-Haneda monorail a couple times..
http://www.monorails.org/tMspages/TokyoH.html

I was told it doesn't have a driver, or conductor.. Is that true? It doesn't say anything on the site.. I don't remember seeing anyone in the front of the first car, but it could be driven from behind.. He, he.. It's Friday..

GJ

[kamome]

Hasn't everyone ridden the Yurikamome Monorail to Odaiba?

[Sarutaro]

The Yurikamome is not a monorail, albeit it is driverless. It runs on regular rubber tires. If you sit in the front you can have a pretty nice view as it crosses Tokyo bay. I plan to take my parents on it when they visit Tokyo for the first time.

[Greji]

The Yurikamome is not a monorail, albeit it is driverless. It runs on regular rubber tires. If you sit in the front you can have a pretty nice view as it crosses Tokyo bay. I plan to take my parents on it when they visit Tokyo for the first time.

The rubber tires came in with the subway line in Sapporo that was put in for the Sapporo Winter Olympics. It was quite nice and extremely quiet (for a subway), however, I don't know how it has held up. The last trip I made to Sapporo, I only used it once to Shiroishi and it seemed pretty rough.

[groovewonder]

I've ridden on the Naha one a few times. Pretty pointless monorail though. Didn't manage to lower traffic by much (if any) and I hear it'll be in the red until at least something like 2036...

Okinawans love their cars. The big problem with the Okinawa Naha monorail is that it doesn't really go anywhere. Heck, the time I rode it, we had to take a taxi just to get to the damned thing.

[GuyJean]

Hasn't everyone ridden Yuri kamome?

Who's she? Your sister?

GJ

[etto_neh]

It's a great system, but fuck if it isn't $. 200yen for a 1-station 3 min trip, 240 for a 2-station 6-min ride, etc. It costs more for those 6 mono-minutes than the 25 minute jaunt into Umeda via Hank.

[kamome]

[quote="GuyJean"]Who's she? Your sister? ]

Nice one, GJ!

[Taro Toporific]

[Mulboyne]

Here's a new mini-monorail installed in Okutama-cho, Tokyo. It's for transporting hunters up to cull the local deer population.

[Gilligan]

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrifide,
Six-car
Monorail!!
.
.
.
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Not on your life my Hindu friend.


Whole thing here.

[Greji]

Here's a new mini-monorail installed in Okutama-cho, Tokyo. It's for transporting hunters up to cull the local deer population.

That's to cull the dear population and since it's in my backyard, I have the concession for this baby, so see me for tickets and obento's!

[kurohinge1]

That's to cull the dear population . . .

What about the cheap population?

Don't they get culled too?

[Greji]

[quote="kurohinge1"]What about the cheap population?

Don't they get culled too?


]
Can't do it cause everybody who lives there, is cheap!

[Taro Toporific]

These 'monorail' are commonly used in Shikoku mountainsides near the Taro Rice Ranch for harvesting mikan oranges. And yep, they are a rickety and dangerous as pictured below.

Here's a new mini-monorail installed in Okutama-cho, Tokyo. It's for transporting hunters up to cull the local deer population.

[IkemenTommy]

I never considered Monorail as an effective form of transportation. They are slow and could only carry few people at a time. The most frustrating one is the yurikamome which goes in a gigantic loop but takes you to nowhere. I suppose it was designed more for the scenery and the riding the Rainbow Bridge is not bad for a cheap date. I guess the exception to all this could be the Tokyo-Haneda monorail which I take occasionally.. but it's so damned expensive for being unmanned and fully automated!

[Greji]

mini-monorail installed in Okutama-cho, Tokyo

I thought about it for awhile and I decided to not let you of the hook Mulboyne, since it is my town you are dissing!

For your information and for use in further dissing, it is Okutama Machi! Not Cho, where the elite meet!

[mr. sparkle]

Well, sir, there's nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrifide,
Six-car
Monorail!!
.
.
.
Is there a chance the track could bend?
Not on your life my Hindu friend.


Whole thing here.

That's exactly the reason that I put the exclamation point there. Glad someone got my little joke.

[IkemenTommy]

That's exactly the reason that I put the exclamation point there. Glad someone got my little joke.

I thought they were called monorail because they run on one track rail and has nothing to do with the number of cars..

[Mulboyne]

Here's that Yurikamome Monorail DVD you've all been waiting for. Produced by Vicom.

[Mulboyne]

The Yurikamome line is planning to offer, for no charge, a special run of their monorail with the carriage lights off so passengers can get a good night view of Tokyo. Applications for the March 24th date can be made through the website. No groping.

[Greji]

No groping.

Ah hell, no reason to go now that they have qualified it!

[t3hWIT]