(Backup video from Youtube [Originally Uploaded by: Yuuka Kazami])
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Track 1 of ZUN's CD Album: 卯酉東海道 ～ Retrospective 53 minutes
Original Title: ヒロシゲ36号 ～ Neo Super-Express
Released on: 2006-05-21 (Reitaisai 3)
Original CD Track Story:
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A journey of the mind along the Boyu Line.
-The Tokaido Subway is the most Japanesque subway in Japan.
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--Hiroshige No.36 ~ Neo Super-Express--
The Hiroshige runs eastward, carrying two girls. It runs eastward, without the slightest turbulence.
It had plenty of benches facing each other, accommodating up to four people. However, as they were all vacant, the two did not have any trouble finding an empty space. The morning outbound trains were extremely crowded with commuters, packed like sardines, yet the inbound for Tokyo trains were vacant, conveniently for them.
A pleasant spring sunshine came in from the windows. This newest model of Shinkansen features a half-panoramic view in all the cars. Each car is entirely window except the ceiling and floor, in other words, the walls of the Shinkansen are the windows. It almost looks as if it were a test tube running on the railway.
At the left of the blonde girl facing in the direction opposite the train's was an endless, beautiful blue coast; at the right was a breathtaking vista of plains dotted with pine trees without a building in sight.
It must have been 25 minutes since we left... Off in the distance, we can see Mount Fuji under an umbrella of clouds.
It appears so majestic, it almost looks like a sage or hermit lives on it.
Because of the efforts of the Mount Fuji Revival Association, it has finally been acknowledged as a World Heritage Site, but seen from the Hiroshige, it looks much more austere.
One of the reason is that because from the panoramic view from the Hiroshige, you never see any high buildings, power transmission lines or elevated railways.
Besides Mt. Fuji, even the sea coast on the left side is so beautiful that even if it were acknowledged as a World Heritage Site a dozen of times over, it would not be enough. Such is the beauty of Tokaido.
Though to Merry, the blonde girl, the extremely beautiful Japanesque scenery she saw while riding the Boyu Shinkansen Hiroshige was just dull visual stimulation.
