There was a similar station in the UK called Redcar British Steel which only served workers at the mill with the same name, but that had no park! Geoff Marshall recorded a visit to it. May actually have been the opposite to Umi-Shibaura in terms of aesthetics and accessibility - totally desolate.
Zaandam, Netherlands had a similar station called Hemweg, also serving the employees of a company. Actually it hardly couldn't be called a station as it was impossible to buy tickets. Trains stopped only two - four times a day in each direction. No park either, but it was possible to leave. It was very near to the North Sea Canal.
I'm not sure why the algorithm decided to show me this video today, but I liked it. If I had the option to take a train basically right to the front door of where I work, I'd absolutely use it!
The algorithm shows you videos like this that have no relation to your feed because they are struggling to censor everything politcial and economical from your feed.
America, the country that has all the resources in the world and CHOSE to derail its train tracks and use shitty civil design instead, and Japan, the country that pretty much HAS to use optimal civil design due to the extremely limited amount of real estate for housing and infrastructure. America has all that land and decides to use it for cars, highways and parking lots. Rallying for better train networks that are actually near residential areas instead of needing you to drive there and get stuck in a traffic jam and wait for 30 mins for one, defeating the entire purpose, would be IMO the solution.
That was a good catch. I'm in Canada. I was thinking something similar: we only get 3 trains per week. Now that you mention commuter rail, that's additional 5-6 week.
I went there recently. The train will stay for about 10 mins before heading back. You can stay at the park for the next train. When you come down to the park level, the gate to exit only allows Toshiba's staff to go, and a security staff are there. On weekends, it's closed up. But the park is open. There is no way to come across to the Toshiba side. Public toilet and vending machine is available.
In Hamburg you can take the Ferry Line 68. It's a one stop ferry from Teufelsbrück to AIRBUS Ferry terminal. You are allowed to be on the ferry - but not to get off at AIRBUS when you don't work there. They even announce this to the tourists.
A public toilet for everyone at such a small station, which is mainly for employees? Man, the central station in my German hometown (population ~9000) doesn't even have a single toilet...
It's hard to see in this video, but the right-hand wall above the white panel at 0:30 (just behind the pedestrian signal), you'll see a dozen bullet holes in the concrete. Those bullet holes are remnants from the 1945 Yokohama air raid, caused by machine gun strafing during the raid. There are also multiple bullet holes on the ground level inside the Kokudo station.
I'd hate to rely on you to give directions....there is no white panel onscreen at 0:30, and what pedestrian signal are you referring to? I've watched that section several times, and I can't see what you're talking about at all. I suspect it's only noticeable if you already know what you're looking at, but your description sucks too badly to be of any help. At least get the right timestamp, hey?
I appreciate the mix of spoken and captioned segments in this video, you do a good job of letting the views speak for themselves and it creates a very informative and relaxing atmosphere! Thank you for sharing this spot! Great video!
Thank you so much! I'm trying this hybrid of talking and captions only since I've seen both of these styles working on UA-cam! (Plus I get tired when I talk too much lol)
In Sydney Australia we have the exact same situation with the Lysaghts Station on the South Coast (Wollongong line), There is no way out of the station unless you work at the steelworks nearby, nice video mate liked it
There's mothballed one in the UK called Redcar British Steel which served the steelworks, however that closed down as the steelworks closed and it was only causing issues with people being stranded on the platform. Luckily it was a through station so they just added it as a call to the following service if your one got cancelled
@@tannerslifevideos Australia at least once had multiple, with Melbourne having a few now closed worker stations such as Mobiltown or General Motors Stations. General Motors Station is still technically there but abandoned and impossible to (legally) get to nowadays.
In Japan, another station with no entrances or exits for the public is one called Seiryu Miharashi-eki which literally translates to "Clear Stream Viewing Platform Station" and it opened in 2019 in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line. As its name implies, its only purpose is as a viewing platform facing the Nishiki River so people can step off and admire the wonderful views of the river and the surrounding forest. Not every train on the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line stops there as it's only special trains that do. Redcar British Steel station is another station built for a company with no other exits. It was completely surrounded by the Teesside Steelworks, but in December 2019, services were suspended due to low ridership, as the majority of the steelworks closed in 2015. The steelworks' BOS plant, blast furnace, and power station, along with auxiliary structures, were demolished in between October 2022 and June 2023. However, the site is being redeveloped as Teesworks, part of the Teesside Freeport, and so the aim is to reopen the station to serve the redevelopment. IBM station in Scotland is similar to Redcar British Steel. IBM opened in 1978 on the Inverclyde Line to serve what was at that time a thriving IBM computer manufacturing plant, employing over 4,000 people. Originally, the stop was unadvertised and only peak-time services stopped there, but subsequently the station was publicly advertised, and all but one service stopped there. The station had its service suspended in December 2018 due to low patronage and anti-social behavior on the nearby derelict IBM site. But like British Redcar Steel, the station is part of redevelopment plans for the former IBM site. On the LIRR in New York, select trains stop at Hillside Facility, and this station is only meant for LIRR employees. Hillside Facility covers 30 acres east of the former Hillside station and can maintain 60 cars at a time. The LIRR also once had a Grumman station in Bethpage which served employees of the then Grumman Engineering Aircraft Corporation, which later merged in 1994 to form Northrop Grumman. During World War II, thousands of Grumman employees in Bethpage produced 12,200 F-6F Hellcat airplanes for the US Navy, one of several Grumman aircraft instrumental in achieving victory in the Pacific. It was also in Bethpage that Grumman built the Apollo Lunar Module used for Apollo missions. In Australia, Wondabyne station stands out in being the only station in Australia without road access. It is a request stop on the Main Northern line with platforms that are less than one car long, served by Central Coast & Newcastle Line services travelling from Sydney Central to Newcastle Interchange, and its purpose is for trail goers on the Great North Walk and the homeowners who live on the other side of Mullet Creek which is a tributary of the Hawkesbury River. The area has a quarry that is used intermittently and several houses which can only be accessed by boat from a jetty next to the station. Similarly, on the Metro-North Railroad in NY (which also serves Connecticut), the MNR has three stations in NY dedicated for hikers, Breakneck Ridge and Manitou on the Hudson Line, and Appalachian Trail on the Harlem Line. The latter being the only rail station on the entire Appalachian Trail that's directly on it. Breakneck Ridge serves its namesake, same for the Appalachian Trail station of course, and Manitou serves Bear Mountain and Anthony's Nose. Other examples of stations with no public entrances/exits besides Umi-Shibaura are Smallbrook Junction, the transfer platform of Pittsburg/Bay Point in California, and Manulla Junction. Smallbrook Junction is on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of Great Britain and opened in 1991. It's unique because it exists as an interchange between the Island Line (which is part of the National Rail network; and once famously used 1938 Tube rolling stock from 1989 until 2021) and a HERITAGE railway, the Isle of Wight Steam Railway! However, the station is expected to close, as while the Isle of Wight Steam Railway has gone between Wootton and Smallbrook Junction, their long-term aim is to go to Ryde St John's Road, thus no need for the station. Manulla Junction on the other hand is in County Mayo, Ireland. It is only for passengers travelling to or from Foxford or Ballina on the Commuter service, who transfer to or from Dublin-Westport trains on the InterCity service. The station originally opened in 1868 with entrances. Their original signal cabin was destroyed during the Irish Civil War! The station closed their entrances/exits in 1963. For Pittsburg/Bay Point on BART's Yellow Line in California, that station has two platforms. One that's publicly accessible and is served by different buses, but another has no exits/entrances and is meant only for transferring. This is because while much of the Yellow Line is electrified third rail 5 ft 6 in gauge/Indian gauge, east of Pittsburg/Bay Point, there is the eBART, a diesel service that runs on standard gauge. So for people continuing on the Yellow Line using eBART (the e in eBART stands for East Contra Costa County), they need to transfer, and so, what they opted for was instead of everyone getting off at the publicly accessible original Pittsburg/Bay Point platform to transfer, they stay on the electrified train until it reaches an island platform dedicated for transferring with no exits/entrances.
In Switzerland we have a station, where you can’t get out at all. It’s called Sagliains at the Rhaetian Railway and the station has no exit. It’s only for changing trains on different routes.
@ Because every full hour, there are crossing four trains. So we need the tracks of two stations to cross with this amount of trains. And one of them is only for changing between two trains.
I was at Sagliains ten years ago, arriving without knowing about this speciality. I wanted to walk to the next station along the valley, but was unprepared, had no tourist map of the area (it was only a few years later that I could have them on my phone off-line), so I didn't know that the only footpath is on the other side of the river and I should have gotten off at the previous station. I felt dumb for not finding the exit and a bit panicked, so I did what is a big no-no in Switzerland and crossed the tracks... then found that I can only walk along the road to the next village, that felt even less safe.
The small park by the station is a really nice touch, gives people other than the Toshiba workers a reason to stop there. I imagine the workers enjoy that park too. I'm lucky to have a park near my work, often I'll spend my lunch break there. It's good to get out of the warehouse and enjoy some fresh air!
0:30 I really appreciate having this list of what questions the video will answer. Too many long videos will be like, "Look at this cool thing" but provide no actual information
This is similar in a way to Quantico station in Virginia. It is surrounded by one of the largest Marine Corps bases, Marine Corps Base Quantico. The base is the site of the HMX-1 presidential helicopter squadron, the FBI Academy, the FBI Laboratory, the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, the Officer Candidates School, The Basic School, the Drug Enforcement Administration training academy, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Army Criminal Investigation Division, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations headquarters. Quantico has no highways passing through it, you need to pass through the base to get to it by car, there's an Amtrak and Virginia Railway Express station in the town, and you need DBIDS credentials to enter the base. So because of all that, Quantico town just doesn't grow, because it can't! It stays a small walkable place. Quantico was first settled in 1654, but its railway station opened in 1872, and when that happened, the Quantico Company built a tourist and fishing town along the line. But this success was short-lived as when WWI came around, the government needed land to train Marines, and Quantico was deemed appropriate, with the government leasing 5,300 acres before purchasing the land from the struggling Quantico Company. 582 lived in the town in 2023. In Scotland, there's a special station called Corrour. It is served by regular ScotRail passenger trains between Glasgow Queen Street and Fort William and Mallaig, as well as the Caledonian Sleeper from London. It is the highest mainline railway station in the UK at an elevation of 1,340 feet (or 410 m) above sea level. While this station is accessible by foot, it is not accessible by any public roads. This is because the station is at an isolated location on the northern edge of Rannoch Moor, providing a starting point for Munro-baggers. There is accommodation and a bar/restaurant available at the station. The nearest road, the B846 road from Loch Rannoch to Rannoch station, is a 16 km walk away by hill track, although Rannoch station itself is only 11.5 km away by rail. Vehicular access is by a 24 km-private road from a little west of Moy Lodge on the A86. In the station's early days, there was so much estate business on the Corrour Estate that the railway employed an extra clerkess during the grouse season. It was theoretically a private station for the use of the Corrour Estate, but it was also used by the public from the start, despite its not appearing in public timetables until September 1934. In 1897, the estate built a new lodge at the foot of Loch Ossian, 7.2 km northeast of the station. There was, however, no vehicular access to the lodge from the public road system, so all goods (including vehicles) had to come and go by rail via Corrour station. A new Corrour Lodge opened in 2004. A famous station that didn't have exits/entrances is Manhattan Transfer. Before NY Penn Station's domination, trains with passengers bound for NYC didn't stop in Manhattan, instead they stopped along the NJ waterfront, with ferries taking them across the river to NYC. These terminals include Weehawken (since demolished, now the site of Port Imperial), Communipaw Terminal (still standing, now part of Liberty State Park), Exchange Place (demolished in 1961), Pavonia Terminal (demolished in 1961), and Hoboken Terminal (still in operation under NJ Transit commuter rail). In November 1910, after the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the North River Tunnels to NY Penn Station, the PRR built the Manhattan Transfer station so passenger trains bound for New York Penn paused there so that their steam locomotives could be replaced by electric locomotives that could run through the tunnel under the river. The station also allowed passengers to change trains, which riders on the PRR main line (now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor) could transfer to local trains to Exchange Place, or Hudson & Manhattan trains (now known as the PATH) to Lower Manhattan. The H&M started operating to Newark in 1911, terminating at Park Place (demolished in 1937; now the site of NJPAC) with a stop at Manhattan Transfer. It closed in 1937 as the PRR chose to electrify to Philadelphia, making the need to switch locomotives obsolete, and the PRR and Newark government chose to build Newark Penn Station, replacing Manhattan Transfer, the PRR's Market Street station, and H&M's Park Place. Manhattan Transfer became the name of a 1925 novel, and a 1969 jazz vocal ensemble named themselves after the novel!
This is a pretty popular station within the train fans in Japan but I thought It might be fun to show this to English speaking audiences. Glad you enjoyed it!
I really appreciate how considerate you are of the employees! Many people would just say “oh, they’ll drive you, you’re entitled to the ride!” But knowing it would be hard for the staff and respecting that is wonderful.
This entire video encompasses what I miss most about Japan Just taking a quiet train to a little-used place with an interesting story behind it I wasted so much time doing that and it was worth it every time
A city like New York would hardly do something as kind as building a whole train station and dedicated route to people's work. I've always admired how much the government of Japan seems to care for its citizens and this little train route and station exemplifies that difference in philosophy well in my eyes. Much love from America!
I always appreciate channels that have these hobbyist videos on them. Videos where the creator made it just because they like something and want to share it with the world is nice.
In the UK there is a train station like this inside a military base and you are not even allowed to get off the train unless you have permission from the base commander. The train normally doesn't even stop there and you have to show your ID or permission letter to the train guard so he will tell the driver to stop the train and let you out.
Lympstone commando? That changed a few years ago due to a new access path. All the signs are still up saying that the station is for people with military business only but ordinary people are now allowed to use it.
There also used to be a station at Old Trafford which was only opened when Manchester United were playing, and there’s a station on the Isle of Wight which connects to a heritage railway but has no access
We have something similar, yet less scenic in my home town. There is an old Bayer chemical factory in this town and it has it's own train stop, for employees to get to and from work. The train line basically cuts the factory in half and you are surrounded by all the impressive manufacturing buildings , that have pipes running up the facades and just look science fiction in a way. There is access to a bicycle lane and a small street running parallel to the train tracks, so you can get out of there, but it's quite a ways before you get to the next residential, or commercial area. The bicycle lane is actually pretty well used, as Bayer has always encouraged employees to use the bike to get there, even in the 60s and 70s, where everything was remodelled for cars in the rest of the country. They offer huge amounts of gated bicycle parking as well.
In Munich there is a stop on S-Bahn line 7 called "Siemenswerke" originally built for access to the large Siemens factory there - the factory has gone now but the station remains. Back when Siemens were in Berlin they constructed a whole rapid transit line for access to their factory area - I've been told that although the "Siemensbahn" is now abandoned and largely derelict it has never been officially abandoned as a right of way so it could in theory be reactivated at some point.
i went to japan last summer and hearing the train announcements really brought me back for a moment :D im used to riding public transit in finland but japanese transit definitely has its own specific vibe, my favorite moment was riding the nikko tobu line and seeing the mountains in the distance!
I have never before searched for or watched a video about trains (let alone trains in Japan) but i'm glad i clicked on this random video that popped up in my recommended. You have a very likable personality and i hope you'll get to explore and experience many more beautiful train stations in your life!
@@tannerslifevideos I wonder if it’s something to do with Jet Lag playing Hide and Seek across Japan and people searching the names of stations and lines more
There's a similar one here in Sapporo which is just for Royce Chocolate staff and visitors (Royce Town Station). Most of the Sasshou line trains will go straight past the station without stopping (usually one train per hour outside of Royce's start/end times will stop there out of the 3-4 hourly trains on the line). But folks can go to the park or do tours of the authorized areas of Royce Chocolate to pass the time by. But the station signage does ask that you not miss the last train at that station as even though the last trains of the night for the line are at midnight, JR Hokkaido closes that station at around 7pm and will not arrange alternative transport. At which point, you gotta walk, and you're in a rural countryside area in the northern outskirts of Sapporo.
Redcar British Steel, The least used station in the UK, had actually something of a similar origin... but today, that is a station you actually cannot leave. you see, the plant which it once served has now closed down & the factory is now an abandoned derelict, meaning the only exit the station has is physically dangerous as well as illegal to use. adding to this, the "station" is usually ever only served by one Local train a day, meaning if you exit you have to wait 20 something hours for the next train (they are not run at thesame time daily), only a few days of the year does the line get a local train double service, making the platform visitable by UA-camrs. PS. back in my day calibrating long range signal antenna's I believe I actually used this station once. Toshiba was doing a seminar about a new product they were introducing, and, as a licensed servicer for Toshiba equipment, we had to be run through the various changes on this variant versus it's predecessor. got to say, I have been to nuclear reactors with less security than that factory (had a friend who was an officer on a nuclear icebreaker).
Redcar British Steel station has been mothballed for a couple of years now, the steelworks having closed. Potentially it may reopen when the land is redeveloped. I used it first in 2009, and walked off site through the main gates without being challenged. Reasoning that it might be more difficult to get through the gates to /board/ a train, I found a back way in through an adjacent nature reserve when I revisited a couple of years later. Again, no problem. Elsewhere in the UK, there's Lympstone Commando, once officially for use only by visitors to the military site, but now available to anyone since a footpath was built between the station and the site. Yes, I used it "illicitly" before the path was there, but didn't (and couldn't, the exit gate being locked) leave the station, and I caught the next train 12 minutes later. Then there is the also mothballed IBM station, originally only for use by employees at the nearby IBM factory. When IBM closed, the station remained for general usage for a few years, although had little point once the local industry had all closed down. Used it many times before it was mothballed, but only after IBM had shut down, but even when IBM was still there I doubt anyone would have been there to stop unauthorised users leaving and walking to the nearby public roads. Another one was Sinfin North, for employees at the Rolls Royce factory close by. Little used, the sparse service was replaced by a taxi for some years until eventual closure. This one I never managed to visit, alas.
I love how respectful you are on the train line, not talking and only using text for the sake of other passengers. I've always known the Japanese for being very respectful of one another but I've never seen it in such a subtle way before. This video was also a lot more interesting than I thought at first, I don't know many transit lines for specific workers, only buses and trains that go in general directions going in and out of the town center (UK), so seeing this whole train station specifically for the workers of this one Toshiba plant was such a weird experience! Love this video and will now binge all of your videos. Earned a sub from me. :)
For those in NYC that want something similar but worst, the Tottenville station is next to the water with a restaurant, and it is one of the free stations.
There’s a station in the highlands of Scotland - Corrour - which has no vehicular access on public roads. (The Forestry Commission has a private road that goes to or past it.) It’s in a very wild and remote area that is traversed by the railway line to Fort William. Most people going there are walkers getting out into the wilderness, so they do leave the station but on foot.
There's also Altnabreac, which is officially still open, but is completely inaccessible as the landowner who owns the only access road has an issue with Scotrail.
I love that. I love that you have a train station that is just to enjoy the view and it's got a little park. People in the US would be upset about a train station like this, but I think it's nice.
Hey, Kokudo! I live down the street from that station. I've always wanted to go down to the end of the Tsurumi line and see the little park, but haven't yet. Funny story, I saw this couple late at night filming like a creepy goth music video in the Kokudo station! Good station for it too.
Coming from the UK, looking at that timetable while you said the train doesn't come very often was funny. Many of our stations have that many departures a day! our lightly served stations are one train a week not 24 trains a day 😂😂
I've found one of the most interesting Japanese videos around YT. People like you make me dream more into coming in your country for a visit. Thanks for the video, Tanner. Subbed!
This is the perfect example of video that makes me want to travel the world. A lot of it is very similar to what you could find in other places in the world: some old train station, worn concrete and asphalt, steel supports for an old train station, an industrial port seen from the other side of the bay, street lamps and so on. And yet, there's all these other details ever so specific to each country that makes each place so unique. To explore these places and then find those few remote locations most people wouldn't even think about when visiting as a tourist makes it even more unique. In some cases, the difference in climate alone makes a huge difference, but when it's fairly similar to what I'm used to, it's even more surreal to me. The joys of seeing the world in it's more day to day life, places people go to on the daily without thinking too much about it despite of how unique it might be in the grand scheme of things, forgetting for a minute that your hundreds of kilometers away from where you live and yet be reminded about it at the smallest of thing. I'd still visit some more touristic areas but the exploring what is day to day places to some is really what I prefer.
I really like the summary in the beginning what to expect from this video - and the content and the cuts are amazing! Really nice to watch your video :)
The evening fading into night with the distant factory lights reflected in the waves is absolutely gorgeous, my man. I bet it ain't easy to find such a quiet and serene spot in Tokyo like this! Gotta treasure it for sure.
Haha I had to commute from Yamato station to Sagami for work for a couple of months. If google maps was wrong I would still be there trying to find my way back home. Great vid man, thanks
This kinda reminds me of Sea Island Centre on the airport branch of Vancouver's Canada Line. Unlike Umi-Shibaura though, you are able to get out of the station-it's just that you'll be plopped in front of a bunch of office buildings for air freight companies, car rental and limo services, and an Air Canada hangar. So unless you are an employee of any of those companies, you will have absolutely nothing to do. Naturally, this makes it by far the least-used station in the city's entire SkyTrain network-the time the trains stop in the station is comically short at just about 8 seconds, since the much busier terminus of the actual airport is the next stop after it. You might wonder why they even bothered building the station, and it's because the YVR Airport Authority insisted that it be built and fronted a whopping $300 million to make it happen.
There is a similar thing in New York. The Hillside Support Facility station on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is listed as "Hillside - Employees Only" on the in-train display. It's only meant to be used by MTA workers at that rail yard, though there is very little that could prevent the average joe from walking off the train at that station since all the doors open.
Also the lesser-known Bowen's Landing on the Brooklyn line. Lately I've noticed they've stopped opening all the doors. I guess the employees just know which car to be in.
the park is a nice touch for employees and visitors who do as you do. the waves give me a strong impression that the station is a great spot for storm pictures thanks to being close to the water… i can name at least four stations like this, not counting the railroad employee stations, but all are specifically just for employees so no regular passengers could use them without being escorted by employees: in the UK there’s the former Redcar British Steel and in my home state of Massachusetts there’s the former Lechmere Warehouse, Forbes Lithograph, and Riverworks stations the latter two on the same line with Riverworks still active as a stop
Until 35 years or so, we had several of those stations here in Germany, too, especially in the region around Dortmund and Bochum. Some of those stations don't exist any more, and other ones have been opened for public access in the meantime. At the time they've been operated as non-public stations, they weren't listed in the regular publicly available time schedules. Either public lines did an "inofficial" stop between regular stations, of special trains have been used. In both cases, if you wanted to explore those lines or stations, you needed some kind of "insider" knowledge before. That time, I lived in the neighbourhood of such a station, but at that specifiic station, it actually was possible to access the area, it you know the trick how to get or leave there. There were exactly three trains stops per day. I used that pretty frequently as a student, because there was that awesome side effect that you couldn't buy tickets there, and also not within the trains. So in result, you got a free ride, and that was totally legal... :-)
There's a small station in England called Lympstone Commando which officially is just for the Royal Marines' training camp. Despite the MOD saying it is for military business only you can get off there as there are public footpaths around the place.
IIRC the MOD hasn’t said that it’s just for commandos as it’s a normal station, you can get off but couldn’t leave…until the footpath was created thatnit
there are a few odd stations which were halts for big industrial sites, you'd have to tell the conductor etc and it led to a gate with no public access there was a yt video of it, it was filmed in the 90s on vhs.
Nice video, thanks for sharing. The view of the water reminded me of the commuter train that goes to Long Beach station on Long Island in New York. It is literally just the track width with not much extra, so looking out the window you feel like you're riding right on the water. Of course, that was around 1969 when I made that trip, so things might have been upgraded since then, but your video triggered an old memory. :)
I think the thing that astonishes me the most is how CLEAN the train stop and the train are. Good luck finding that in the States. U.S. culture really could borrow some pride in cleanliness from Japan.
The old train station and the train quietly arriving, plus the topic of the video makes it look so mystical, like if you were about to ride an urban legend
I'll probably never get to visit Japan but for some reason this was genuinely really cool, it looked so nice and peaceful too, I know it's not for it but I bet camping out at that park for a night would be pretty cozy.
I absolutely love the propulsion sounds of the train you were on. Reminds me of 81-775 back when I was in Russia. Also, it's kinda crazy to me how narrow the tracks are.
The view of the water is mesmerizing. I wonder what it looks like in different seasons. Also, for some reason, Yokohama always reminds me of Patlabor and I can't even remember if the scenes which I am reminded of are set in Yokohama.
I think it'll be the same because the view is mostly the ocean and buildings. I went here during December, so hopefully it'll be less cold during other seasons.
In the German city of Karlsruhe, there is a train station you can't even get into. It is a terminus, and before reaching it, the train stops so they can check whether all passengers have permission to access the area. If you don't, you are just thrown out of the train (which is kinda far away from everything else in the middle of a forest)
I've always wanted to go to this station. I'm not sure why I didn't. I lived in Kanagawa for 11 years, and I was often exploring neighbourhoods around various train stations. But I never made it to this station. Nice to see what it's like!
@@tannerslifevideos oh! Thanks for letting me know. That's... I really wish you many more to come. This video was very interesting. Like discovering a hidden gem. Thank you for making it. I wish you a good life. Even when things are hard, know that you are bringing smiles to people's faces.
Super interesting, in Hamburg, Germany we have a similar situation with a ferry line station where only Airbus facility employees are allowed to get off and they also built a cute little park there and it's super easy to accidentally get off there and get stuck over night 🤣 yet another cute similarity between Hamburg and Yokohama and one of the reasons why I feel so at home in Yokohama
The line map does remind me of some of the lines of the London Underground with their in part stubby branches of only 1, 2 or 3 stops. But at least at those you can get off as a regular passenger. For a larger factory to have its own branch line it is quite useful though. Wonder if Toshiba pays for part of the upkeep to run those services.
I find those mixed-up lines so interesting for some reason. Toshiba actually only owns the property of this station so you can get off the station before this one (Shin-Shibaura station)
The reason in this case is, that the train is running on tracks that are mostly used by freight trains, to get harbour workers to their working places fast. So it depends on which shift at which harbour ends that determines where the train goes, as well as that you have to fit in freight trains in between the passenger services. That's by the way also the reason why this branch lines have two tracks each: they are in heavy use, just not by passenger trains, but freight trains.
For the UK, the better comparison would be Lympstone Commando (Devon, South West England) on the line running from Exeter to Exmouth, where you cannot get off there unless you're in the military
@@gabrielstravelsthat used to be true but a footpath was created, and you could get off but couldn’t leave the station as the line and station aren’t MOD
The Umi-Shibura station was likely the original station for this harbor/port/dock whatever it is considered. Probably serving as a station for several industrial buildings, but over time Toshiba ended up owning the entire area around the station. The station (Shin-Shibura) right before it likely fills that role today. I know Japan has private rail companies running the lines, but I don't know how that exactly works with buying/selling the land of those lines. So there might be some legal red tape preventing Toshiba from purchasing the station...Or something
River Works Station in Lynn, Massachusetts is much the same as this - it exists solely to serve employees of the adjacent General Electric plant. Unlike Umi-Shibaura, though, only GE employees are allowed to get off the train at River Works, as the station is actually a grade crossing connecting two sections of GE's property.
Thank you for uploading this video, it was very interesting. I would love to visit to Japan one day, to see your lovely country and to travel on your excellent trains.
As I'm not a fan of industrial areas I wouldn't call the view nice. But your video surely fascinated me. As I live at the other side of the globe I won't ever visit this station. So thanks a lot!
I like how they built this small park next to this station. They didn't have to but they did!
Tokyo and Yokohama have so many little parks, it’s lovely.
Right, it's sometimes the small ones that are more fun!
Yeah! It would be kinda boring if it was just the station.
There was a similar station in the UK called Redcar British Steel which only served workers at the mill with the same name, but that had no park! Geoff Marshall recorded a visit to it. May actually have been the opposite to Umi-Shibaura in terms of aesthetics and accessibility - totally desolate.
Zaandam, Netherlands had a similar station called Hemweg, also serving the employees of a company. Actually it hardly couldn't be called a station as it was impossible to buy tickets. Trains stopped only two - four times a day in each direction.
No park either, but it was possible to leave. It was very near to the North Sea Canal.
I'm not sure why the algorithm decided to show me this video today, but I liked it.
If I had the option to take a train basically right to the front door of where I work, I'd absolutely use it!
Thank you for clicking on this video! Glad you liked it.
Same! The algorithm is strong today.
@@discogareth Joining the algorithm Gang.
Algorithm got me and wow this station is beautiful
The algorithm shows you videos like this that have no relation to your feed because they are struggling to censor everything politcial and economical from your feed.
"It doesn't run that often," he says, pointing to a schedule with twice as many trains running as the commuter line I take to work in America.
lmao, tbf Japanese trains are the staple and main form of transportation throughout Japan, makes sense if there are lots of lines 😊
America, the country that has all the resources in the world and CHOSE to derail its train tracks and use shitty civil design instead, and Japan, the country that pretty much HAS to use optimal civil design due to the extremely limited amount of real estate for housing and infrastructure.
America has all that land and decides to use it for cars, highways and parking lots. Rallying for better train networks that are actually near residential areas instead of needing you to drive there and get stuck in a traffic jam and wait for 30 mins for one, defeating the entire purpose, would be IMO the solution.
you live in america thats why
@@Sara-bk3yi Believe me, I know...
That was a good catch.
I'm in Canada. I was thinking something similar: we only get 3 trains per week. Now that you mention commuter rail, that's additional 5-6 week.
I went there recently. The train will stay for about 10 mins before heading back. You can stay at the park for the next train. When you come down to the park level, the gate to exit only allows Toshiba's staff to go, and a security staff are there. On weekends, it's closed up. But the park is open. There is no way to come across to the Toshiba side. Public toilet and vending machine is available.
Thank you!
In Hamburg you can take the Ferry Line 68. It's a one stop ferry from Teufelsbrück to AIRBUS Ferry terminal. You are allowed to be on the ferry - but not to get off at AIRBUS when you don't work there. They even announce this to the tourists.
A public toilet for everyone at such a small station, which is mainly for employees?
Man, the central station in my German hometown (population ~9000) doesn't even have a single toilet...
@@BlueSheep95aber dafür wenigstens be fette Verspätung danke DB
The perfect place for the homeless hikikomori?
Little quirks like these are why I am in love with the Japanese transit system. Much love from Singapore!
True! It's not just the convenience that makes it great. Thanks for watching.
How right you are. Fascinating country to explore by rail
I wish singapore has rail networks like Japan
@@d35p0not dense enough, but agreed. We need more local lines and express trains (that skip stops)
@@d35p0 I wish we had a rail network like Singapore. Public transport here in Houston, Texas is a disaster.
It's hard to see in this video, but the right-hand wall above the white panel at 0:30 (just behind the pedestrian signal), you'll see a dozen bullet holes in the concrete. Those bullet holes are remnants from the 1945 Yokohama air raid, caused by machine gun strafing during the raid. There are also multiple bullet holes on the ground level inside the Kokudo station.
That's actually wild. Thank you for sharing.
Good find
Holes are from hummer drill where some worker tried to drill holes and could not hit the correct spot
@@robant5578 No they're not. Why do you feel the need to lie?
I'd hate to rely on you to give directions....there is no white panel onscreen at 0:30, and what pedestrian signal are you referring to? I've watched that section several times, and I can't see what you're talking about at all. I suspect it's only noticeable if you already know what you're looking at, but your description sucks too badly to be of any help. At least get the right timestamp, hey?
I appreciate the mix of spoken and captioned segments in this video, you do a good job of letting the views speak for themselves and it creates a very informative and relaxing atmosphere! Thank you for sharing this spot! Great video!
I second this. Thank you for the quality content!
Thank you so much! I'm trying this hybrid of talking and captions only since I've seen both of these styles working on UA-cam! (Plus I get tired when I talk too much lol)
I have not watched very many Japan vlog style videos. I was surprised by the English spoken on the train's intercom.
0:48 I love the way that sign was painted on the ground. Almost 3d like 😊😊
Very trippy, not a fan
In Sydney Australia we have the exact same situation with the Lysaghts Station on the South Coast (Wollongong line), There is no way out of the station unless you work at the steelworks nearby, nice video mate liked it
Cool to know other countries have stations like this. Thanks for watching!
I thought they would all just drive to work.
There's mothballed one in the UK called Redcar British Steel which served the steelworks, however that closed down as the steelworks closed and it was only causing issues with people being stranded on the platform. Luckily it was a through station so they just added it as a call to the following service if your one got cancelled
@@bartsimho1192 similar yo Lysaghts, which is a request stop only
@@tannerslifevideos Australia at least once had multiple, with Melbourne having a few now closed worker stations such as Mobiltown or General Motors Stations. General Motors Station is still technically there but abandoned and impossible to (legally) get to nowadays.
In Japan, another station with no entrances or exits for the public is one called Seiryu Miharashi-eki which literally translates to "Clear Stream Viewing Platform Station" and it opened in 2019 in Yamaguchi Prefecture on the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line. As its name implies, its only purpose is as a viewing platform facing the Nishiki River so people can step off and admire the wonderful views of the river and the surrounding forest. Not every train on the Nishikigawa Seiryū Line stops there as it's only special trains that do. Redcar British Steel station is another station built for a company with no other exits. It was completely surrounded by the Teesside Steelworks, but in December 2019, services were suspended due to low ridership, as the majority of the steelworks closed in 2015. The steelworks' BOS plant, blast furnace, and power station, along with auxiliary structures, were demolished in between October 2022 and June 2023. However, the site is being redeveloped as Teesworks, part of the Teesside Freeport, and so the aim is to reopen the station to serve the redevelopment. IBM station in Scotland is similar to Redcar British Steel. IBM opened in 1978 on the Inverclyde Line to serve what was at that time a thriving IBM computer manufacturing plant, employing over 4,000 people. Originally, the stop was unadvertised and only peak-time services stopped there, but subsequently the station was publicly advertised, and all but one service stopped there. The station had its service suspended in December 2018 due to low patronage and anti-social behavior on the nearby derelict IBM site. But like British Redcar Steel, the station is part of redevelopment plans for the former IBM site. On the LIRR in New York, select trains stop at Hillside Facility, and this station is only meant for LIRR employees. Hillside Facility covers 30 acres east of the former Hillside station and can maintain 60 cars at a time. The LIRR also once had a Grumman station in Bethpage which served employees of the then Grumman Engineering Aircraft Corporation, which later merged in 1994 to form Northrop Grumman. During World War II, thousands of Grumman employees in Bethpage produced 12,200 F-6F Hellcat airplanes for the US Navy, one of several Grumman aircraft instrumental in achieving victory in the Pacific. It was also in Bethpage that Grumman built the Apollo Lunar Module used for Apollo missions.
In Australia, Wondabyne station stands out in being the only station in Australia without road access. It is a request stop on the Main Northern line with platforms that are less than one car long, served by Central Coast & Newcastle Line services travelling from Sydney Central to Newcastle Interchange, and its purpose is for trail goers on the Great North Walk and the homeowners who live on the other side of Mullet Creek which is a tributary of the Hawkesbury River. The area has a quarry that is used intermittently and several houses which can only be accessed by boat from a jetty next to the station. Similarly, on the Metro-North Railroad in NY (which also serves Connecticut), the MNR has three stations in NY dedicated for hikers, Breakneck Ridge and Manitou on the Hudson Line, and Appalachian Trail on the Harlem Line. The latter being the only rail station on the entire Appalachian Trail that's directly on it. Breakneck Ridge serves its namesake, same for the Appalachian Trail station of course, and Manitou serves Bear Mountain and Anthony's Nose.
Other examples of stations with no public entrances/exits besides Umi-Shibaura are Smallbrook Junction, the transfer platform of Pittsburg/Bay Point in California, and Manulla Junction. Smallbrook Junction is on the Isle of Wight off the southern coast of Great Britain and opened in 1991. It's unique because it exists as an interchange between the Island Line (which is part of the National Rail network; and once famously used 1938 Tube rolling stock from 1989 until 2021) and a HERITAGE railway, the Isle of Wight Steam Railway! However, the station is expected to close, as while the Isle of Wight Steam Railway has gone between Wootton and Smallbrook Junction, their long-term aim is to go to Ryde St John's Road, thus no need for the station. Manulla Junction on the other hand is in County Mayo, Ireland. It is only for passengers travelling to or from Foxford or Ballina on the Commuter service, who transfer to or from Dublin-Westport trains on the InterCity service. The station originally opened in 1868 with entrances. Their original signal cabin was destroyed during the Irish Civil War! The station closed their entrances/exits in 1963. For Pittsburg/Bay Point on BART's Yellow Line in California, that station has two platforms. One that's publicly accessible and is served by different buses, but another has no exits/entrances and is meant only for transferring. This is because while much of the Yellow Line is electrified third rail 5 ft 6 in gauge/Indian gauge, east of Pittsburg/Bay Point, there is the eBART, a diesel service that runs on standard gauge. So for people continuing on the Yellow Line using eBART (the e in eBART stands for East Contra Costa County), they need to transfer, and so, what they opted for was instead of everyone getting off at the publicly accessible original Pittsburg/Bay Point platform to transfer, they stay on the electrified train until it reaches an island platform dedicated for transferring with no exits/entrances.
How are you so knowledgeable? I see you every other video.
@@AQuestioner he only has one comment on this channel
@Itzymidzykpop I mean I see their comments on a lot of other geography/history/urban design videos, not just this channel.
@@AQuestioner ah ok
Awesome knowledge dump! I was hoping someone would mention Redcar British Steel station because that's what this most reminds me of.
In Switzerland we have a station, where you can’t get out at all. It’s called Sagliains at the Rhaetian Railway and the station has no exit. It’s only for changing trains on different routes.
But how get the cars there and why not oben for the village next to it?
@ Because every full hour, there are crossing four trains. So we need the tracks of two stations to cross with this amount of trains. And one of them is only for changing between two trains.
same for Secaucus Junction in the US, originally built for changing trains until 2016 a bus station was added
@@Meiseside There is no village next to it. It is at a junction, where a line across a long tunnel meets another line along a river valley.
I was at Sagliains ten years ago, arriving without knowing about this speciality. I wanted to walk to the next station along the valley, but was unprepared, had no tourist map of the area (it was only a few years later that I could have them on my phone off-line), so I didn't know that the only footpath is on the other side of the river and I should have gotten off at the previous station.
I felt dumb for not finding the exit and a bit panicked, so I did what is a big no-no in Switzerland and crossed the tracks... then found that I can only walk along the road to the next village, that felt even less safe.
The atmosphere at sunset in a Japanese industrial area is a feeling I like.
ehh
When I see a Japanese industrial area, I just wonder when Godzilla's going to show up... ;P
Then you put ketchup on the omorice OMG I LOVE JAPANESE FOOD
Industrial area, USA 😐
Industrial area, Japan 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
The small park by the station is a really nice touch, gives people other than the Toshiba workers a reason to stop there. I imagine the workers enjoy that park too. I'm lucky to have a park near my work, often I'll spend my lunch break there. It's good to get out of the warehouse and enjoy some fresh air!
wtf bro, I watched this when it had less than 3k views, I come back and now it has almost 400k views. You have been blessed by the algorithm bro 😂😂😂
The vibes on this video are immaculate
Forreal!
33 year resident of Japan. Never heard of this place. Thanks for the video. Might go check it out.
0:30 I really appreciate having this list of what questions the video will answer. Too many long videos will be like, "Look at this cool thing" but provide no actual information
This is similar in a way to Quantico station in Virginia. It is surrounded by one of the largest Marine Corps bases, Marine Corps Base Quantico. The base is the site of the HMX-1 presidential helicopter squadron, the FBI Academy, the FBI Laboratory, the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, the Officer Candidates School, The Basic School, the Drug Enforcement Administration training academy, the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, the Army Criminal Investigation Division, and the Air Force Office of Special Investigations headquarters. Quantico has no highways passing through it, you need to pass through the base to get to it by car, there's an Amtrak and Virginia Railway Express station in the town, and you need DBIDS credentials to enter the base. So because of all that, Quantico town just doesn't grow, because it can't! It stays a small walkable place. Quantico was first settled in 1654, but its railway station opened in 1872, and when that happened, the Quantico Company built a tourist and fishing town along the line. But this success was short-lived as when WWI came around, the government needed land to train Marines, and Quantico was deemed appropriate, with the government leasing 5,300 acres before purchasing the land from the struggling Quantico Company. 582 lived in the town in 2023.
In Scotland, there's a special station called Corrour. It is served by regular ScotRail passenger trains between Glasgow Queen Street and Fort William and Mallaig, as well as the Caledonian Sleeper from London. It is the highest mainline railway station in the UK at an elevation of 1,340 feet (or 410 m) above sea level. While this station is accessible by foot, it is not accessible by any public roads. This is because the station is at an isolated location on the northern edge of Rannoch Moor, providing a starting point for Munro-baggers. There is accommodation and a bar/restaurant available at the station. The nearest road, the B846 road from Loch Rannoch to Rannoch station, is a 16 km walk away by hill track, although Rannoch station itself is only 11.5 km away by rail. Vehicular access is by a 24 km-private road from a little west of Moy Lodge on the A86. In the station's early days, there was so much estate business on the Corrour Estate that the railway employed an extra clerkess during the grouse season. It was theoretically a private station for the use of the Corrour Estate, but it was also used by the public from the start, despite its not appearing in public timetables until September 1934. In 1897, the estate built a new lodge at the foot of Loch Ossian, 7.2 km northeast of the station. There was, however, no vehicular access to the lodge from the public road system, so all goods (including vehicles) had to come and go by rail via Corrour station. A new Corrour Lodge opened in 2004.
A famous station that didn't have exits/entrances is Manhattan Transfer. Before NY Penn Station's domination, trains with passengers bound for NYC didn't stop in Manhattan, instead they stopped along the NJ waterfront, with ferries taking them across the river to NYC. These terminals include Weehawken (since demolished, now the site of Port Imperial), Communipaw Terminal (still standing, now part of Liberty State Park), Exchange Place (demolished in 1961), Pavonia Terminal (demolished in 1961), and Hoboken Terminal (still in operation under NJ Transit commuter rail). In November 1910, after the Pennsylvania Railroad opened the North River Tunnels to NY Penn Station, the PRR built the Manhattan Transfer station so passenger trains bound for New York Penn paused there so that their steam locomotives could be replaced by electric locomotives that could run through the tunnel under the river. The station also allowed passengers to change trains, which riders on the PRR main line (now Amtrak's Northeast Corridor) could transfer to local trains to Exchange Place, or Hudson & Manhattan trains (now known as the PATH) to Lower Manhattan. The H&M started operating to Newark in 1911, terminating at Park Place (demolished in 1937; now the site of NJPAC) with a stop at Manhattan Transfer. It closed in 1937 as the PRR chose to electrify to Philadelphia, making the need to switch locomotives obsolete, and the PRR and Newark government chose to build Newark Penn Station, replacing Manhattan Transfer, the PRR's Market Street station, and H&M's Park Place. Manhattan Transfer became the name of a 1925 novel, and a 1969 jazz vocal ensemble named themselves after the novel!
Yeah...too many words...
@@Plasmastorm73 Never question me, son. Saying "Too many words" is for the weak. You have eyes, use them.
Thank you for the information dear leader 🙏
Just checked it out on Google Maps and it looks like the entire Tsurumi line has a vibe. Thanks for the video!
It's a lowkey train line for sure haha. Thanks for watching!
Really shows how much Japan values trains. Rail station just for workers.
Thats a pretty cool little station. I haven't seen it before on other channels that I follow. Great park and wonderful views.
This is a pretty popular station within the train fans in Japan but I thought It might be fun to show this to English speaking audiences. Glad you enjoyed it!
I really appreciate how considerate you are of the employees! Many people would just say “oh, they’ll drive you, you’re entitled to the ride!” But knowing it would be hard for the staff and respecting that is wonderful.
0:38 NPCs when they just do a random 180 and go the other way
This entire video encompasses what I miss most about Japan
Just taking a quiet train to a little-used place with an interesting story behind it
I wasted so much time doing that and it was worth it every time
A city like New York would hardly do something as kind as building a whole train station and dedicated route to people's work. I've always admired how much the government of Japan seems to care for its citizens and this little train route and station exemplifies that difference in philosophy well in my eyes. Much love from America!
I always appreciate channels that have these hobbyist videos on them. Videos where the creator made it just because they like something and want to share it with the world is nice.
In the UK there is a train station like this inside a military base and you are not even allowed to get off the train unless you have permission from the base commander. The train normally doesn't even stop there and you have to show your ID or permission letter to the train guard so he will tell the driver to stop the train and let you out.
Lympstone commando? That changed a few years ago due to a new access path. All the signs are still up saying that the station is for people with military business only but ordinary people are now allowed to use it.
There also used to be a station at Old Trafford which was only opened when Manchester United were playing, and there’s a station on the Isle of Wight which connects to a heritage railway but has no access
We have something similar, yet less scenic in my home town. There is an old Bayer chemical factory in this town and it has it's own train stop, for employees to get to and from work. The train line basically cuts the factory in half and you are surrounded by all the impressive manufacturing buildings , that have pipes running up the facades and just look science fiction in a way. There is access to a bicycle lane and a small street running parallel to the train tracks, so you can get out of there, but it's quite a ways before you get to the next residential, or commercial area. The bicycle lane is actually pretty well used, as Bayer has always encouraged employees to use the bike to get there, even in the 60s and 70s, where everything was remodelled for cars in the rest of the country. They offer huge amounts of gated bicycle parking as well.
In Munich there is a stop on S-Bahn line 7 called "Siemenswerke" originally built for access to the large Siemens factory there - the factory has gone now but the station remains. Back when Siemens were in Berlin they constructed a whole rapid transit line for access to their factory area - I've been told that although the "Siemensbahn" is now abandoned and largely derelict it has never been officially abandoned as a right of way so it could in theory be reactivated at some point.
Oh MAN! This place is so nostalgic! I got lost in here when I was living in Japan as a Dekasegui. Thanks for showing this. It was very nostalgic.
i went to japan last summer and hearing the train announcements really brought me back for a moment :D im used to riding public transit in finland but japanese transit definitely has its own specific vibe, my favorite moment was riding the nikko tobu line and seeing the mountains in the distance!
I have never before searched for or watched a video about trains (let alone trains in Japan) but i'm glad i clicked on this random video that popped up in my recommended. You have a very likable personality and i hope you'll get to explore and experience many more beautiful train stations in your life!
In Switzerland we have a station which is for transfer from one train to another only and nobody can leave the station, there's no exit.
There was a station like this in the UK, called Redcar British steel and you couldn't leave because it was surrounded by private property.
Congratulations on being blessed by the algorithm!
Quite a good video as well! Good job!
Yeahh this video is getting pushed way more than my other ones fortunately!
Thank you for watching!
@@tannerslifevideos I wonder if it’s something to do with Jet Lag playing Hide and Seek across Japan and people searching the names of stations and lines more
There's a similar one here in Sapporo which is just for Royce Chocolate staff and visitors (Royce Town Station). Most of the Sasshou line trains will go straight past the station without stopping (usually one train per hour outside of Royce's start/end times will stop there out of the 3-4 hourly trains on the line). But folks can go to the park or do tours of the authorized areas of Royce Chocolate to pass the time by. But the station signage does ask that you not miss the last train at that station as even though the last trains of the night for the line are at midnight, JR Hokkaido closes that station at around 7pm and will not arrange alternative transport. At which point, you gotta walk, and you're in a rural countryside area in the northern outskirts of Sapporo.
I want to thank you for videoing this. I would likely never be able to visit it but thank you
Redcar British Steel, The least used station in the UK, had actually something of a similar origin... but today, that is a station you actually cannot leave. you see, the plant which it once served has now closed down & the factory is now an abandoned derelict, meaning the only exit the station has is physically dangerous as well as illegal to use.
adding to this, the "station" is usually ever only served by one Local train a day, meaning if you exit you have to wait 20 something hours for the next train (they are not run at thesame time daily), only a few days of the year does the line get a local train double service, making the platform visitable by UA-camrs.
PS. back in my day calibrating long range signal antenna's I believe I actually used this station once. Toshiba was doing a seminar about a new product they were introducing, and, as a licensed servicer for Toshiba equipment, we had to be run through the various changes on this variant versus it's predecessor.
got to say, I have been to nuclear reactors with less security than that factory (had a friend who was an officer on a nuclear icebreaker).
Redcar British Steel station has been mothballed for a couple of years now, the steelworks having closed. Potentially it may reopen when the land is redeveloped. I used it first in 2009, and walked off site through the main gates without being challenged. Reasoning that it might be more difficult to get through the gates to /board/ a train, I found a back way in through an adjacent nature reserve when I revisited a couple of years later. Again, no problem.
Elsewhere in the UK, there's Lympstone Commando, once officially for use only by visitors to the military site, but now available to anyone since a footpath was built between the station and the site. Yes, I used it "illicitly" before the path was there, but didn't (and couldn't, the exit gate being locked) leave the station, and I caught the next train 12 minutes later.
Then there is the also mothballed IBM station, originally only for use by employees at the nearby IBM factory. When IBM closed, the station remained for general usage for a few years, although had little point once the local industry had all closed down. Used it many times before it was mothballed, but only after IBM had shut down, but even when IBM was still there I doubt anyone would have been there to stop unauthorised users leaving and walking to the nearby public roads.
Another one was Sinfin North, for employees at the Rolls Royce factory close by. Little used, the sparse service was replaced by a taxi for some years until eventual closure. This one I never managed to visit, alas.
"You can check out any time you like, but you can never leave"
Welcome to the station California...
"welcome to the hotel Toshiba"
I love how respectful you are on the train line, not talking and only using text for the sake of other passengers. I've always known the Japanese for being very respectful of one another but I've never seen it in such a subtle way before.
This video was also a lot more interesting than I thought at first, I don't know many transit lines for specific workers, only buses and trains that go in general directions going in and out of the town center (UK), so seeing this whole train station specifically for the workers of this one Toshiba plant was such a weird experience!
Love this video and will now binge all of your videos. Earned a sub from me. :)
For those in NYC that want something similar but worst, the Tottenville station is next to the water with a restaurant, and it is one of the free stations.
There’s a station in the highlands of Scotland - Corrour - which has no vehicular access on public roads. (The Forestry Commission has a private road that goes to or past it.) It’s in a very wild and remote area that is traversed by the railway line to Fort William. Most people going there are walkers getting out into the wilderness, so they do leave the station but on foot.
There's also Altnabreac, which is officially still open, but is completely inaccessible as the landowner who owns the only access road has an issue with Scotrail.
I love that. I love that you have a train station that is just to enjoy the view and it's got a little park.
People in the US would be upset about a train station like this, but I think it's nice.
Hey, Kokudo! I live down the street from that station. I've always wanted to go down to the end of the Tsurumi line and see the little park, but haven't yet.
Funny story, I saw this couple late at night filming like a creepy goth music video in the Kokudo station! Good station for it too.
Coming from the UK, looking at that timetable while you said the train doesn't come very often was funny. Many of our stations have that many departures a day! our lightly served stations are one train a week not 24 trains a day 😂😂
I've found one of the most interesting Japanese videos around YT. People like you make me dream more into coming in your country for a visit. Thanks for the video, Tanner. Subbed!
One thing I notice any time I watch anything from within Japan, is how clean and tidy all places seems to be.
This is the perfect example of video that makes me want to travel the world.
A lot of it is very similar to what you could find in other places in the world: some old train station, worn concrete and asphalt, steel supports for an old train station, an industrial port seen from the other side of the bay, street lamps and so on. And yet, there's all these other details ever so specific to each country that makes each place so unique.
To explore these places and then find those few remote locations most people wouldn't even think about when visiting as a tourist makes it even more unique.
In some cases, the difference in climate alone makes a huge difference, but when it's fairly similar to what I'm used to, it's even more surreal to me. The joys of seeing the world in it's more day to day life, places people go to on the daily without thinking too much about it despite of how unique it might be in the grand scheme of things, forgetting for a minute that your hundreds of kilometers away from where you live and yet be reminded about it at the smallest of thing.
I'd still visit some more touristic areas but the exploring what is day to day places to some is really what I prefer.
I really like the summary in the beginning what to expect from this video - and the content and the cuts are amazing! Really nice to watch your video :)
Japan is a beautiful country!
Really nice video...I was stationed in Yokosuka and spent a lot of time in Yokohama..miss all the people and fun I had in Japan
The evening fading into night with the distant factory lights reflected in the waves is absolutely gorgeous, my man. I bet it ain't easy to find such a quiet and serene spot in Tokyo like this! Gotta treasure it for sure.
That place looks awesome at sunset. I read about this station a while ago and put it on my bucket list. Looks like a very cool place to go.
That's actually really neat to have a park for people interested in the view.
man the everyday sights and sounds around and in the trains made me wanna go back to japan so bad im gonna cry 😭
Haha I had to commute from Yamato station to Sagami for work for a couple of months. If google maps was wrong I would still be there trying to find my way back home. Great vid man, thanks
All the quietness and the nice view makes me want to visit the station and just... spend time there relaxing.
This was a pleasant little slice of Japan. Thanks boss!
This kinda reminds me of Sea Island Centre on the airport branch of Vancouver's Canada Line. Unlike Umi-Shibaura though, you are able to get out of the station-it's just that you'll be plopped in front of a bunch of office buildings for air freight companies, car rental and limo services, and an Air Canada hangar. So unless you are an employee of any of those companies, you will have absolutely nothing to do. Naturally, this makes it by far the least-used station in the city's entire SkyTrain network-the time the trains stop in the station is comically short at just about 8 seconds, since the much busier terminus of the actual airport is the next stop after it. You might wonder why they even bothered building the station, and it's because the YVR Airport Authority insisted that it be built and fronted a whopping $300 million to make it happen.
I like how I got an ad from bookin directly before this, as if they think I will immediately go to this station myself as a mini vacation
There is a similar thing in New York. The Hillside Support Facility station on the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) is listed as "Hillside - Employees Only" on the in-train display. It's only meant to be used by MTA workers at that rail yard, though there is very little that could prevent the average joe from walking off the train at that station since all the doors open.
Also the lesser-known Bowen's Landing on the Brooklyn line. Lately I've noticed they've stopped opening all the doors. I guess the employees just know which car to be in.
Thank you my man for showing us such an amazing place
the park is a nice touch for employees and visitors who do as you do. the waves give me a strong impression that the station is a great spot for storm pictures thanks to being close to the water…
i can name at least four stations like this, not counting the railroad employee stations, but all are specifically just for employees so no regular passengers could use them without being escorted by employees: in the UK there’s the former Redcar British Steel and in my home state of Massachusetts there’s the former Lechmere Warehouse, Forbes Lithograph, and Riverworks stations the latter two on the same line with Riverworks still active as a stop
Until 35 years or so, we had several of those stations here in Germany, too, especially in the region around Dortmund and Bochum. Some of those stations don't exist any more, and other ones have been opened for public access in the meantime. At the time they've been operated as non-public stations, they weren't listed in the regular publicly available time schedules. Either public lines did an "inofficial" stop between regular stations, of special trains have been used. In both cases, if you wanted to explore those lines or stations, you needed some kind of "insider" knowledge before.
That time, I lived in the neighbourhood of such a station, but at that specifiic station, it actually was possible to access the area, it you know the trick how to get or leave there. There were exactly three trains stops per day. I used that pretty frequently as a student, because there was that awesome side effect that you couldn't buy tickets there, and also not within the trains. So in result, you got a free ride, and that was totally legal... :-)
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There's a small station in England called Lympstone Commando which officially is just for the Royal Marines' training camp. Despite the MOD saying it is for military business only you can get off there as there are public footpaths around the place.
There's also Smallbrook Junction on the Isle of Wight that is only there to serve as a connection between mainline and heritage trains
@flan_fan1234and there used to be Redcar British Steel specifically for the steelworks that are since closed
IIRC the MOD hasn’t said that it’s just for commandos as it’s a normal station, you can get off but couldn’t leave…until the footpath was created thatnit
there are a few odd stations which were halts for big industrial sites, you'd have to tell the conductor etc and it led to a gate with no public access there was a yt video of it, it was filmed in the 90s on vhs.
There's a similar station at Filton Abbeywood in Bristol - it's right next to an MOD facility, but has foot paths for non-MOD staff.
What a nice little station. Definitely on my bucket list if I ever get to visit Japan.
Wow! this is so cool. I love the more low-key kind of video.
Yay! Thank you!
Nice video, thanks for sharing. The view of the water reminded me of the commuter train that goes to Long Beach station on Long Island in New York. It is literally just the track width with not much extra, so looking out the window you feel like you're riding right on the water. Of course, that was around 1969 when I made that trip, so things might have been upgraded since then, but your video triggered an old memory. :)
I think the thing that astonishes me the most is how CLEAN the train stop and the train are. Good luck finding that in the States. U.S. culture really could borrow some pride in cleanliness from Japan.
The old train station and the train quietly arriving, plus the topic of the video makes it look so mystical, like if you were about to ride an urban legend
I'll probably never get to visit Japan but for some reason this was genuinely really cool, it looked so nice and peaceful too, I know it's not for it but I bet camping out at that park for a night would be pretty cozy.
interesting station, also your english is insanely good, props!
I absolutely love the propulsion sounds of the train you were on. Reminds me of 81-775 back when I was in Russia. Also, it's kinda crazy to me how narrow the tracks are.
This is very interesting and I enjoyed that scene of the waves too, thank you for the great video!
thank you for making this video
seems really refreshing to me
Very cool video. I'm glad this came across my feed. Thanks for the informative video and the look at the station!
The view of the water is mesmerizing. I wonder what it looks like in different seasons.
Also, for some reason, Yokohama always reminds me of Patlabor and I can't even remember if the scenes which I am reminded of are set in Yokohama.
I think it'll be the same because the view is mostly the ocean and buildings. I went here during December, so hopefully it'll be less cold during other seasons.
close enough, welcome back tom scott
I heard about of this station in passing. Thanks for sharing.
would love to see more quirky places in japan! nice video
In the German city of Karlsruhe, there is a train station you can't even get into. It is a terminus, and before reaching it, the train stops so they can check whether all passengers have permission to access the area. If you don't, you are just thrown out of the train (which is kinda far away from everything else in the middle of a forest)
that is such a spirited away vibes, that train station middle of ocean in the animation is so similar situation
I've always wanted to go to this station. I'm not sure why I didn't. I lived in Kanagawa for 11 years, and I was often exploring neighbourhoods around various train stations. But I never made it to this station. Nice to see what it's like!
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@@tannerslifevideos oh! Thanks for letting me know. That's... I really wish you many more to come. This video was very interesting. Like discovering a hidden gem. Thank you for making it. I wish you a good life. Even when things are hard, know that you are bringing smiles to people's faces.
That means a lot 🥹 I’ll be making more videos so hope you look forward to it!
I love I've heard about this station in layover like two days ago and now I am seeing footage from the station xD
I love the respect for others and their time.
Super interesting, in Hamburg, Germany we have a similar situation with a ferry line station where only Airbus facility employees are allowed to get off and they also built a cute little park there and it's super easy to accidentally get off there and get stuck over night 🤣 yet another cute similarity between Hamburg and Yokohama and one of the reasons why I feel so at home in Yokohama
This appears on my recommended list, so i am adding this for my itinerary
00:46 Oh my word, that anamorphic sign, that is so clever!!
The machine in the ad at 4:24 is a steam turbine generator.
The waves are actually majestic
The line map does remind me of some of the lines of the London Underground with their in part stubby branches of only 1, 2 or 3 stops. But at least at those you can get off as a regular passenger. For a larger factory to have its own branch line it is quite useful though. Wonder if Toshiba pays for part of the upkeep to run those services.
I find those mixed-up lines so interesting for some reason.
Toshiba actually only owns the property of this station so you can get off the station before this one (Shin-Shibaura station)
The reason in this case is, that the train is running on tracks that are mostly used by freight trains, to get harbour workers to their working places fast. So it depends on which shift at which harbour ends that determines where the train goes, as well as that you have to fit in freight trains in between the passenger services. That's by the way also the reason why this branch lines have two tracks each: they are in heavy use, just not by passenger trains, but freight trains.
For the UK, the better comparison would be Lympstone Commando (Devon, South West England) on the line running from Exeter to Exmouth, where you cannot get off there unless you're in the military
@@gabrielstravelsthat used to be true but a footpath was created, and you could get off but couldn’t leave the station as the line and station aren’t MOD
Fun fact: The "Shiba" in TOSHIBA stands for "Shibaura", so that station is presumably of some heritage value to the company.
The Umi-Shibura station was likely the original station for this harbor/port/dock whatever it is considered. Probably serving as a station for several industrial buildings, but over time Toshiba ended up owning the entire area around the station.
The station (Shin-Shibura) right before it likely fills that role today.
I know Japan has private rail companies running the lines, but I don't know how that exactly works with buying/selling the land of those lines. So there might be some legal red tape preventing Toshiba from purchasing the station...Or something
Really fascinating to see a part of the worldI would have never known about!
wow! more of these curious places please! man, i miss japan!
cheers from argentina!
Very interesting video, thanks for sharing with us.
River Works Station in Lynn, Massachusetts is much the same as this - it exists solely to serve employees of the adjacent General Electric plant. Unlike Umi-Shibaura, though, only GE employees are allowed to get off the train at River Works, as the station is actually a grade crossing connecting two sections of GE's property.
Thank you for uploading this video, it was very interesting. I would love to visit to Japan one day, to see your lovely country and to travel on your excellent trains.
I thought this was going to be a video about Kisaragi Station, but this is pretty interesting in it's own right.
As I'm not a fan of industrial areas I wouldn't call the view nice. But your video surely fascinated me. As I live at the other side of the globe I won't ever visit this station. So thanks a lot!