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JR East: we don’t have enough money to figure out how to keep departure melodies. Also JR East:

  • March 29, 2026


JR East: we don’t have enough money to figure out how to keep departure melodies. Also JR East:

by frozenpandaman

13 comments

  1. Wait huh why can’t they keep departure melodies? How does that even cost anymore money to play/push a button?

  3. Come down here and see how JR Kyushu does things and be amazed at the overpriced slow times and crap lines!

    Edit: did not realize this was the Tokyo sub, showed up on my feed and I thought it was a general japan one, sorry!

  7. Since when does JR East and “not having enough money” belong in the same sentence?

    For fuck’s sake, you guys are one of the most profitable of the 7 JR companies, on top of all the prime real estate like the Atre shopping malls and JR Mets Hotel chain.

    Yet you make it sound like you’re poor as fuck like JR Hokkaido or JR Shikoku, what a load of bullshit.

  8. I mean can’t this just be an AI and triggers how hard will be to trigger melodies

  9. I just hope they fix their saikyo line. That thing breaks down when you need jt the most.

  11. As a tourist who has been to Japan two times, it makes me incredibly sad to hear the melodies are being removed.

    Those melodies are part of my key memories to Japan, and regularly continue to play in my head when I remember the good times I had when traveling.

  12. Capitalism and the consequences of privatization. I’m happy for countries like South Korea and Germany didn’t follow the route.

  13. I heard that they can’t replace the power lines as often as they are supposed to be, because they are tight on budget, so there have been and will be power outages.

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