VLVL2 (9): The Yamanote Line

[Tim Strzechowski]

135.15  "between the Yamanote Line and Expressway I"

"The Yamanote Line is Tokyo's most important train line. It is a circular line which connects Tokyo's major city centers. A trip around the whole circle takes approximately one hour. 
"Even though a single train on the Yamanote Line is roughly 200 meters long, a train arrives and departs about every two to four minutes in each direction." [...]

http://www.japan-guide.com/e/e2370.html

http://hisaai-hp.hp.infoseek.co.jp/JREast/Yamanote/Yt_s_eg.html


For me, Pynchon has always seemed somewhat smitten with the aesthetic beauty of geographical compositions (a description of the southern California highway system in CoL49 comes to mind), as well as the motif of travel and journey.

Tim



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