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Apr 27 2009 2 Comments

The road to reader or rail recogniser?

The library may well have once been the location of learning for many, but with the likes of video games and the internet vying for the average Tokyo teen’s time, any reason to bother with books is rapidly receding, resulting in increasingly radical attempts to reel in reticent readers.

Japanese bullet train library

But, while bullet train buildings bulging with books may well recruit a reasonable number of people to the unrivalled pleasures of reading,

Japanese bullet train library

it’s probably more than likely that such a locomotive-based library will instead turn these tots into timetable toting train otaku,

Japanese bullet train library

rather than testing tome tacklers.

Japanese bullet train library

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  1. Ru says

    4/29/2009 at 9:03 pm

    Beautiful pics. I seem to remember a Shinkansen-turn-Koen in Akishima in Tokyo, is this the very same one by any chance?

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  2. Lee says

    4/29/2009 at 9:11 pm

    It is indeed Ru, the very same one!

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