Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!CALA-MUZIK!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!newsfeed.gamma.ru!Gamma.RU!nntp.eutelia.it!news.newsland.it!aioe.org!news1.greatnowhere.com!reader.greatnowhere.com!not-for-mail Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 05:05:29 +0900 From: Prophet of the Way User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: ja, en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: soc.culture.japan,fj.life.in-japan Subject: Chuo Line service disruptions / Rail Tech Institute open house Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-2022-JP Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 31 Message-ID: <4526b809$0$1352$834e42db@reader.greatnowhere.com> NNTP-Posting-Date: 06 Oct 2006 20:09:46 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 52aaff23.reader.greatnowhere.com X-Trace: DXC=i4?S]dSn6FRFAHT>W>bP?U]XKbj2VKD@Zn1RJ3gdIg\[U\IW5GSNQYRI[JJTW7Ko3R0@iCHMRaJ^Z^AGaPB?e]1RIXdRiJgHd1SSUUi^8Q>:l_3>@<9dR@f[W8;9nQCd2dN[FF\^5\[bPdXlT_Ce?EY3k_^]g2\JbjYVZKd3o0lQgBnZ X-Complaints-To: usenet@greatnowhere.com Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:164456 JR East Chuo Line will close early (around 11:30PM) on the night of October 8th '06 (Sunday) between Nishi-Kokubunji and Tachikawa. Service will resume about at around 7:30 on the next morning, October 9th (Monday, holiday). Late night trips in this direction best avoided. For those who have to, JR suggests using the Nambu Line and Musashino Line as a detour. More details in Japanese: http://www.jreast.co.jp/suspend/chuoexp.html JR East Info centers and English, Korean and Chinese phone line: http://www.jreast.co.jp/e/info/index.html (Foreign language guidance) JR Kunitachi Station, the second oldest wooden station structure in the Tokyo area will be torn down. Local activists are working for its preservation but they are against an uphill struggle. --- The Railway Technical Research Institute will be open to the public on October 14th (Sat.) from 10 AM. It is located north of JR Chuo Line Kunitachi Station in Kokubunji City. For map visit http://www.rtri.or.jp/ (English text). There will be exhibitions showing the progress of railway technology, including magnetic-levitated (maglev) transport systems and the superconducting material which makes this possible.