Akihabara Station live feed

[bikkuri bahn]

Picked up over on the SSC forum.  Looking in the up direction towards Tokyo Station.  Includes sound. 

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[Jcarlton]

I've been watcing this as the city wakes up, the first trains in the morning, the early people getting to work, the delivery trucks making the rounds.  Sort of cool.  I used to like to go into NYC on Sundays and have the same sort of city waking up feel.

[bill937ca]

Try it full screen on a flat screen TV. 

[westfalen]

Nice clear picture and you don't have to wait long to see a train, downside is there's not much variety, you've seen one Yamanote or Keihin-Tōhoku train and you've seen them all. It would be nice if you got a bit more than a tantalising glimpse of the Shinkansen over to the left.

[bill937ca]

A map of the location.  The camera is located north of the station above the Kanta Myojin Dori (the main street in the background) and below the fire station.

 

http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=35.69988&lon=139.77445&zoom=17&layers=M

[CaptOblivious]

Suhweet! Exactly the portion of the station I'm modelling. Total awesomesauce.

[bikkuri bahn]

downside is there's not much variety, you've seen one Yamanote or Keihin-Tōhoku train and you've seen them all.

 

Should improve a bit when the Tohoku Junkan Line becomes operational in 2014.  The right of way of that line is visible next to the Yamanote/Keihin Tohoku Line tracks.

[bill937ca]

The Akihabara feed is back and unfortunately its a much inferior location looking across the tracks rather than down on Akihabara station. There are Tohoku Junkan Line trains on layover in the background.  Every once in a while a Tohoku Junkan Line arrives or leaves.

 

It appears the host company moved closer to the station resulting in the change.

Edited June 12, 2014 by bill937ca

[westfalen]

I just checked it out to see what the new view was like, I thought the constant procession of identical Yamanote and Keihin-Tohoku line trains in the old view was boring. I might set up a webcam in my front yard to watch the grass grow.