How are these audio tracks not copyright violations?
cammikebrown•38m ago
Pffft, this is fair use
Animats•14m ago
Good question. The composer and artist of most of them in Japan is Minoru Mukaiya.[1] He's also the CEO of Ongakukan, which builds train simulators for both games and training.
He's done over a hundred original station jingles.[2] Many of the Yamanote Line jingles are classics, though.
Interestingly this one seems it is from before 高輪ゲートウェイ (Takanawa Gateway) station which opened in 2020, but the numbering shows the gap (JY 25 -> JY 27). That led me to looking it up, and turns out that they introduced the numbering in 2016, and that already came pre-planned with the gap ready [1].
Ebisu has the "Harry Lime" theme from "The Third Man"? Wasn't expecting to recognise any... I wonder who was a fan of that film.
makeitdouble•44m ago
Yes, it's that song.
The station is named after a beer company that operates there, and they used their beer CM song for the station chime as well.
greydius•3m ago
And the brewery got the name from Ebisu, a god who is believed to protect fishermen.
bluecoconut•39m ago
The first time I got off at and heard Komagome's tune I mistakenly thought it was some halloween special because it was late October at the time, and the song felt so distinct and unique.
Zee2•34m ago
Why don't I remember the Ueno station being an electronic office telephone ringtone...
austinallegro•8m ago
This is up there with the Hard Off in store music. Magnificent!
ranger_danger•1h ago
cammikebrown•38m ago
Animats•14m ago
He's done over a hundred original station jingles.[2] Many of the Yamanote Line jingles are classics, though.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Minoru_Mukaiya
[2] https://www.ongakukan.co.jp/en/business/music/#melody