JR Kyushu English Website Update

[katoftw]

And most would know, JR Kyushu website was very bad.  They have recently updated it.  And includes all trains now and travel/tourist information also.  It is now very good.

 

http://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/index.jsp

Edited January 7, 2015 by katoftw

[JR 500系]

Looking good now the site!

 

Somehow, it looked strangely familiar to its Japanese counterpart - http://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/trains/

 

That's also the timetable published (till Feb 2015)!  http://www.jrkyushu.co.jp/english/pdf/time_tabel.pdf

 

There's a link to an external Japanese site for introduction videos to some of the tourist train rides!

http://www.jr-kyushu.jp/touch_train/cm/index.html

 

I used to use another website here: http://kyushu-japan-holidays.com/kyushu-guide/sl-hitoyoshi.html

Edited January 7, 2015 by JR500 のぞみ

[Guest keio6000]

While the kyushu website may look better than it looked before, have you noticed that they use images for much of the english language text?  this looks pretty amateur-hour from a web design standpoint.

 

not related, but have people noticed that the jrtr website appears to be down permanently?

 

[kvp]

 

While the kyushu website may look better than it looked before, have you noticed that they use images for much of the english language text?  

As some of the english sites that has some japanese content, to support browsers without a japanese font installed. Actually the japanse language part of the site also has most menus as images, but add some flash based menus too, that isn't even visible on most apple devices. The images all have text tags, so my guess is that it was made in a content editor software.

 

Interesting info from the site:

 

Company name: Kyushu Railway Company

Date established: April 1, 1987

Head office: 3-25-21 Hakata-ekimae, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka 812-8566, Japan

Capital: 16 billion yen

Number of employees: 9,360 (as of April 1, 2014)

Business activities:

1. Passenger railway services

2. Freight railway services

3. Marine transportation services

4. Passenger vehicle transportation business

5. Travel agency business

6. Warehouse business

7. Parking business

8. Advertising business

9. Financial services

10. Information processing/distribution service

11. Non-life and other insurance business

12. Mail-order business

13. Automobile sales and maintenance business

14. Retail sales including travel goods, food and beverages, alcoholic beverages, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, personal care products

15. Hotel and restaurant business

16. Engineering/designing of construction, construction work/management

17. Equipment installation services

18. Lease and cleaning of movable properties, photo development reception services

19. Sale/purchase, lease, intermediation and management of real estate.

20. Manufacturing of transportation equipment

21. Manufacturing of precision and industrial machinery

22. In-home care support services in accordance with the Nursing Care Insurance Law

23. Operation of amusement parks, athletic facilities and cultural facilities

24. Production, processing and sale of agricultural products

25. Operation and management of power-generation business and sale of electricity

 

[Kitayama]

On 1/7/2015 at 10:24 AM, keio6000 said:

While the kyushu website may look better than it looked before, have you noticed that they use images for much of the english language text?  this looks pretty amateur-hour from a web design standpoint.

 

not related, but have people noticed that the jrtr website appears to be down permanently?

 

I can access the site. Latest issue March 2014.

http://www.ejrcf.or.jp/jrtr/start.html

[Guest keio6000]

indeed you are correct.   odd.. it was down all last week (verified with websites that check whether the site is indeed down for everybody).   i posted without double checking.

 

oh well, these things happen. pity it's been almost a year since the last JRTR issue though.