/jp/ - Otaku Culture

http://www.seejapan.co.uk/jnto_trade/news_detail/16-05-26/two-new-luxury-trains-launching-in-japan-in-2017

>>16378853

Thanks OP

>>16378853
OP of the last thread here. Nice job on the pastebin OP! Everything looks nice and neat now.

http://www.tokyoreporter.com/2017/01/08/train-driver-misses-platform-by-200-meters-in-chiba-felt-drowsy/

Can you imagine something like this happening in our station?

it's raining a lot!

>>16382793
>The driver continued to operate the train after the incident.
That sounds safe.

>Can you imagine something like this happening in our station?
No. Aizuwakamatsu is the end of the line (at least where the camera is, further left is the Tadami line). If a train misses the platform by 200m here, if brakes too late, then it'll smash into the station and be a disaster.

Remember to switch out the "[YouTube] 北海道ｏｎ天気ライブカメラ　HTB's Weather Live Cameras in Hokkaido" link in the pastebin every so often, as it changes

This is the current one, not sure how long it will be up though
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_JukUbJG0

Check the channel every now and then to see if it's the same
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCmluFv8LmQmKpmq0wyCAVgA

>>16384006
>>16378853

Yeah some of the Youtube link cameras changes links regularly.

To see all Japanese live cameras at the present use this:

https://www.youtube.com/results?sp=EgJAAQ%253D%253D&q=%E3%83%A9%E3%82%A4%E3%83%96%E3%82%AB%E3%83%A1%E3%83%A9

Basically a search of "ライブカメラ" with the filter "live" on.

>>16384793
>>16384006

Will add what you posted to the next pastebin to clarify what to do if someone stumbles on a dead link

The dynamic nature of live links is something that I currently don't have a solution for, especially if it's a pastebin we're working with

I suppose the best practice would still be to post the most recent link of interest in the thread. Maintaining it in a centralized pastebin would take a good amount of dedication.

We can just include links to the directory of live cams that are static in the pastebin (much like the solution you mentioned) and leave the sharing of dynamic links of specific cams to the thread

Shizuoka Railway

>>16385814

Cute.

Snow when?

>>16390975

it'll snow intermittently tonight and the next 5 days

>>16391051

hard to tell the exact hours
use the "nowcast" (see the pastebin)

>>16391072
From what I have seen snowfall predictions are pretty shit anyway. Weather over the next few days is definitely conducive to snow though. Tadami Line drinking party might be canceled. The train has changed schedule to snow conditions, running at a lower speed.

>>16385814
Wakayama Electric Railway

>>16391278
>Tadami Line drinking party might be canceled.
What is this drinking party?

>>16390975
never

>>16393613
Please tell me you have this in a higher resolution.

>>16393672
unfortunately not
was not successful in sourcing it either

>>16382367
This is nice

>>16392388
The whiskers are a nice touch.

Some flakes falling right now

The snow situation doesn't look too promising

On a side note,
the weather woman on NHK world is really qt

>>16392388
That railway is famous for the stationmaster cat

>>16396009
How are you watching NHK World?

And please post a pic of the qt weather lady.

>>16382367
>>16394052
2spooky4me

Also wallpaper size. Nice. Never thought of that although the aspect ratio will look terribly imbalanced I suppose.

>>16392508
Tadami Line is a very scenic line running out of Aizuwakamatsu.
A group of people organize and hold drinking parties on the train about once a month, usually around the second Saturday of the month.
Last time I went was during Golden Week last year. I met the mayor of Kaneyama (that is as far as the train goes due to a bridge being out past there).

It's about a four hour round trip and much sake is drunk.

>>16396452
>and much sake is drunk.
Pic hopefully not related unless there were like 4 people there.

Can Japanese people handle alcohol at all? If I showed up with a bottle of Tequila or Singani would they just fall over?

>>16396532
That was at Kaneyama, mate, it's just the half way point and only one of the group got really drunk.

>>16396542
But could I drink with the average Japanese person? Or would they collapse halfway through the night?

This is more of an etiquette question, should I pace myself or just not worry about it?

>>16396452
>Tadami Line
>The section between Aizu-Kawaguchi and Tadami has been closed since July 2011 due to rainstorm damage, with no definite reopening date fixed.

Why are we still here? Just to suffer?

>>16396558
Hard to say.
A handful of people I know could drink me under the table and I have been told that I hold my alcohol well here.
I haven't really seen anyone get as drunk as I have gotten.

>>16396571
I think they're planning to fix it somewhat soon. One of the party goers was mentioning it and how when it reopens the train will go all the way to Tadami and so the party would end up being much longer.

>>16396585
/jp/ meetup there?

Too bad plane tickets cost ~1500

>>16396603
Fuck no.

>>16396603
More like too bad I'd be too awkward, introverted and socially inept.

>>16396452
Whats involved in joining this drinking party? Is it invite only?

>>16396585
I take it your Japanese is quite advanced? Or at least conversational?

>>16393842
This would have made a great wallpaper. Thanks for sharing it.

>>16396644
Pretty much invite. They organize properly and have some rules involved to keep things orderly. It isn't like they are renting a train, it takes place on the public service so there are other passengers on board who are just on their way to their destinations.

My Japanese isn't very advanced, or at least my spoken Japanese isn't.

>>16396644
>More like too bad I'd be too awkward, introverted and socially inept.

That's what the copious amounts of booze are for.

Seriously, I doubt any of you have had Singani and it will blow your mind. I can also mix basically any drink in the world with no more than ice, two solo cups, and a spoon.

>>16396659
invite only but you can just buy a ticket like normal?

/jp/ hijack?

>>16396664
>/jp/ hijack?
Just get the fuck out.

>>16396688
>Just get the fuck out.
Someone isn't taking it easy

>>16396659
>My Japanese isn't very advanced, or at least my spoken Japanese isn't.

So how did you get the invite?

35.3417412, 139.4832661

>>16396016
Indeed it is. Although I haven't heard much about it since Tama died, and got replaced by Nitama.

>>16397610
I recognize the shade of green on that loco. That's a model of a Great Western Railway loco!

>>16397471
I know people who know people.

>>16378853
Man, wouldn't it be so much more fun to just go to your local train station and spot trains there in person?

>>16396688
The joke's on you. I'm deffo coming there next time now.

>>16399952
Jokes on you, I won't be there.

>>16399806
Oh my god so much snow today and we only have one post about?

;_;

>>16401082
The sound keeps chopping up in my stream, it's a shame. All that snow is comfy as hell to watch.

>>16401093

try this version with Windows Media Player:

mms://center.ntt-fukushima.com/n-jraizu?MSWMExt=.asf

>>16401093
The stream is choppy for me too.

>>16401099
I'm using FFMPEG

>>16378853
>http://pastebin.com/RtPVkRe0
So I just tried to record a webm using
> to record as webm for 4chan posts
> ffmpeg -i mmsh://center3.ntt-fukushima.com/n-jraizu -c:v vp8 -an n-jraizu.webm
But I get unknown encoder 'v8p' error. Please help ;_;

So beautiful.

Watch that overhead powerline on the right.

It hasn't snowed this hard in a long time

>>16401286
Damn that was pretty cool.
Nice catch!

>>16401149
Oh I see what the problem is.

The encoder is supposed to be libvpx so you need to use "-c:v libvpx" instead of just vp8.


>>16378853
OP can you fix the pastebin so that it has the correct encoder?



I still recommend using

ffmpeg.exe -y -i mmsh://center3.ntt-fukushima.com/n-jraizu -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mkv

though. It's faster and you can tweak the encoding settings whenever.

>>16401286
I live in the same general region. The snow has been absolutely nuts since yesterday. Pretty much nonstop heavy snow.

Wind is also incredibly strong.

>>16401286
>It hasn't snowed this hard in a long time

I remember when it snowed this hard all the time. Like 4 years ago this was par for the course. This is some comfy nostalgia.

http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/s9QbKp9K/file.html
http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/QEztB4hw/file.html
http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/8iDJuyTP/file.html
http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/8x4RBMLO/file.html
http://www56.zippyshare.com/v/55CJCGc4/file.html

~2.5 hours of snowfall


I have more it just takes forever to upload

>>16401582
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/s1jq278g/file.html
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/wrq0cQ31/file.html
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/EGdo65w5/file.html
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/EFvkKjLX/file.html
http://www27.zippyshare.com/v/cyOGujrQ/file.html

There's so much snow

>>16401286
How did you catch this?

>>16402015
I left ffmpeg recording overnight. I noticed it while looking through some of the clips

>>16401662
>>16401582

Thanks heaps anon.

I see timestamps in the filenames but they don't appear to be the station's local time. What time are they?

>>16402045
They're eastern time, I think that comes out to 13 hours behind japanese time.

Whats the forecast for more snow?

Interesting they leave the lights on when its snowing?

>>16402052
As in US Eastern? I think thats 14 hours?

>>16401340
Why mkv container?

>>16402170
>As in US Eastern?
Yep. It might actually be 14 hours right now, I forgot to take into account DST or the lack of it.

>>16402244
No particular reason, I'm just not sure what container the streams are supposed to use.

>>16401662
http://www57.zippyshare.com/v/KlC3WklL/file.html
http://www57.zippyshare.com/v/fiyC1S3j/file.html
http://www57.zippyshare.com/v/bukgyg5f/file.html
http://www57.zippyshare.com/v/fLsEqjvh/file.html
http://www57.zippyshare.com/v/yNefWQRX/file.html
http://www57.zippyshare.com/v/BykFt48d/file.html

a few more, some of them were cut short but apparently the stream recovered

>>16401340
>The encoder is supposed to be libvpx so you need to use "-c:v libvpx" instead of just vp8.

Thanks alot kind anon.

For some reason I tried the old vp8 encoder on my laptop and it actually works.

>>16402244
>>16402279
Because otherwise you'd have to re-encode the thing instead of just downloading. The stream is in mkv so you're pretty much copying the stream with the command, if you were putting it in a .mp4 or anything else you'd need to re-encode both the video and audio so on top of downloading the file, you'd also be encoding it at the same time.

>>16401340
>>16402625

Right so thats the reason to use:

>ffmpeg.exe -y -i mmsh://center3.ntt-fukushima.com/n-jraizu -c:v copy -c:a copy output.mkv

instead of:

>ffmpeg -i mmsh://center3.ntt-fukushima.com/n-jraizu -acodec copy -vcodec copy n-jraizu.mkv

Right? If so, then the pastebin will be updated. Thanks again.

>>16402696
Both do the exact same, just that the output filename is not the same, did you forget to edit a part?

Btw the problem with the pastebin is not about that as it does say that you have to encode in webm for 4chan, and it does show how to download without encoding it and does say you have to convert them to webm anyway to post it on 4chan.

The problem is that it says "c:v vp8" multiple times when it should be "c:v libvpx"

1h in 30 seconds

poor guy has to walk in all this snow

>>16403187
Otsukaresamadeshita my brother

>>16401093
>>16401136
can confirm interruption problems here too
This has started happening ever since the stream went up again after days of downtime recently.

Here is a pseudo fix (not sure of tech explanation for it) that has reduced chopiness for me (on a GNU/Linux system worked perfectly fine before)

instead of using the .asf link with your streaming program try:

mmsh://center3.ntt-fukushima.com/n-jraizu

is mmsh different from asf (I know they're both proprietary microsoft)? Is there any other version of this stream in an open format? Is there a way to reencode on the fly with a stream? Maybe this will fix choppiness? I don't know much about multimedia

>>16403187
nice catch
(I hope someone considers shoveling their pathway)
>>16403179
thanks for the timelapse

>>16378853
Reminder for pastebin:
Fix vp8 references to libvpx as mentioned earlier

Include GNU/Linux specific recording and timelapse cmds

Since I only use guest pastebins they will be updated once every new thread (unless someone else with an account takes over managing it)

Here's a list of the streams on the ntt-fukushima website and some general information about them. Could be useful for the pastebin


http://pastebin.com/1YHQJFnK

>>16403584
Thank you
>>16378853

>>16403515
>(I hope someone considers shoveling their pathway)
Don't worry, someone did!

>>16403656
hehe, I meant the middle path where the conductors from the middle track have to walk in order to exit

Still, thanks for the nice capture (can't believe I missed the latest snowfall)

>>16396264
as far as I know this is the NHK world livestream
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/live/

not sure if this is a condensed version that does not feature the full broadcast

As for the weather lady it's Sayaka Mori see:
https://www3.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/en/news/anchors/

Unfortunately, afaik her time slot is late night US time.

beautiful I love when the station is covered in snow like this

>>16404081
Amen.

>decide to record the snowy morning sunrise today by leaving FFMPEG running whilst I sleep
>wake up
>computer hibernated after 10 minutes because of settling set previously
>get nothing

Fuck me.

something about this is just so cozy

Snow really likes to build up there. It's interesting how it builds up until it hits a certain point and then everything just comes crashing down all at once.

>>16404841
nice catch
the water buildup probably has to do with the ice:liquid ratio of the flakes
usually we don't see buildups like that

>>16404675
Its the color of the sky. What time was this?

>>16405015
You mean the ice:liquid ratio affects the density and adhesive nature of the snow flakes?

Is there a quick way to take screenshots within FFMPEG stream?

ffplay -i mmsh://center3.ntt-fukushima.com/n-jraizu

>>16405089
I think it was around 6AM there.

Snow has stopped failing and there is visible melting going on.

Is this the beginning of the end?

>>16405094
>ffmpeg
>quick way to do anything.

You can get MPV to open ffmpeg streams, but it's pretty much dark magic.

Basically you stream ffmpeg into a temorary file, then have MPV read that file. Like a stream within a stream.

>>16405195
http://www.jma.go.jp/en/week/313.html

One week forecast tells it is going to snow this whole week, I don't think it's the end. I'm actually happy how much snow we have around this time

>>16401286
All the lines were doing this as I drove to school this morning. It was pretty sweet. Trees were suddenly dropping their loads too.

The middle track pathway has gotten shoveled!
He's got stamina

been seeing this newer model more often lately

>>16405089
>You mean the ice:liquid ratio affects the density and adhesive nature of the snow flakes?
Yes. Well put. Sorry for my rushed statement.

Probably a stupid observation but it seems to snow more at night. Right?

>>16406434
Well, yeah. It's generally colder then and that helps the snow to stay instead of melting.

>>16406434
>>16406496
Well, and hot air holds more water, and water generally evaporates under direct sunlight, so it evaporates and saturates the air, and as the air cools at night it becomes unable to hold as much water, which creates precipitation, in this case snow.

>>16404628
Here's a sunrise:
http://www20.zippyshare.com/v/gyMC2l8h/file.html

>>16406658
Thank you based god!

>>16406658
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/G7l3sAgi/file.html
http://www64.zippyshare.com/v/k3Yuy05u/file.html

Two more from that set. The stream cut out after that.

Timelapse:
http://www46.zippyshare.com/v/oyUdwUvW/file.html

I think it comes out to 1 day, 17 hours, 43 minutes, and 38 seconds. 3372 unique images taken at 30 second intervals.

There were a few breaks during the recording but it recovered fast enough to keep it together.

>>16407514
>>16407019

Nice anon.

How did you do the timelapse? Did you use the FFMPEG command in the pastebin?

>ffmpeg -i input.avi -y -filter:v "setpts=0.00390625*PTS" -b:v 700k -r 30 output.webm". (256*0.00390625 = 1)


Or something else?

>>16407565
I'm already copying the video streams so I just use a batch file to rip the frames from the videos and then compile them into one file.

>>16407514
I forgot to mention all of the images come out to ~1.13GB.

>>16407594
So on average 335kb per image. Not bad.

>>16405696
Unfortunately it looks like its gonna warm up soon.

I should be arriving in about 70 mins.

>>16409812
I will be watching

This is where you watch from /jp/.

>>16410397
Are you still there?

>>16410601
No, currently on a train. Be back in four hours or so.
Its snowing pretty bad though.

>>16410397
>>16409812

Nice photos. Post more please.

>>16409812
Fuck, i forgot to tune in

So Japan started snowing on January? Thank god I didn't plan to go there on December, or else I'm gonna miss dem snow

>>16410880
Depends on the region.

>>16410888
Tokyo's snowing now, right?

>>16410906
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9pavMzUY-c

>>16410921
Alright I'm done

>>16410921
Holy shit someone straight up almost just died.

Two kei-cars swerved to either side of him.
I thought Japan was supposed to be good at this?

Im currently standing on the left platform drinking hot cocoa waiting for the train to Koriyama

>>16411400
>japan
>good at anything involving transport
So far only the Shinkansen has a good record, but then there was thay driver putting his feet up on the job.

>>16411460
>good at anything involving transport

Japanese cars are literally the best

>Hachiroku
>MR2
>Silvia
>fucking 300zx
>Skyline

Cmon son

>>16411471
Okay, fine. They make good cars but they are shit at driving them, for the most part.

I'm sorru, I didn't take many photos of Aizuwakamatsu Station as I passed back through. It was dark and I wasn't there for long anyway.

>>16411471

Don't forget the Supra and GTR.

Aizuwakamatsu is going to get a shitload of snow tonight.

snow has gotten everywhere!

>>16411400
And you didn't capture this!?

>>16411703
It's okay share what you got.

>>16411960
>>16412660
Hopefully there is more in the morning.

>>16412894
Saved!

What time was that taken? I.e. time of creation on your computer?

>>16412980
from 02:07:46 to 02:08:06 AM japan time (GMT+9)

>>16411460
>>good at anything involving transport
I was under the impression that Japanese public transport has incredibly good on-time and safety rates. But if you have data to the contrary, feel free to share.

>>16413044
Thanks heaps anon.

I'm obsessive about knowing the exact time of things especially things I love.

if you watch closely you can see someone walking through the tracks far away during the first five seconds

>>16414263
Nice catch. Also saved.

What time was this by he way?

Also it seems like both trains left at the same time just then.

>>16414275
7:23 AM, i don't have the seconds sadly as windows doesn't want to show them and is claiming that the file got created yesterday (even though it clearly isn't the case)

Those two trains left so fast that i didn't even see them even (even though the windows is always on top), i was too focused on the guy on the left
This one 7:32:42 AM in case you ask

>>16414351
Thanks anon. No seconds is fine. Minute is good enough.

Yeah the trains left within seconds of each other.

Quite a sight to see them both disappear into whiteness.

Aizuwakamatsu Station from the outside yesterday.

Looking down on the Ban-etsu West lines from the over walk.

The Aizu and Tadami lines, located to the left of the camera position.

Arrival at Aizu-Kawaguchi.
You will notice no overhead lines. This train is diesel.

Aizu-Kawaguchi Station under a fuckton of snow.

About waist deep snow in places it hasn't been cleared.

Returned to Aizu-Wakamatsu Station.

Just waiting for our train back to Koriyama.

ｷﾀ━━━(ﾟ∀ﾟ)━━━!!

It was something like -5C, feels like -12C while we were waiting for the train. It was fucold last night and is currently -4C in Fukushima and just stopped snowing. I have about two inches on my balcony.

>>16414893
Thank you for all of these very pretty pictures!

>>16410397
seems a lot higher from the cam
Thanks for sharing

>>16414836
from that perspective, is the right line gas powered while left is electric?

>>16414849
are snowblowers not popular over there?

>>16415692
All of them have overhead powerlines I think.

>>16416041
you're right, sorry about that

>>16415692
I think they're both electric. The Tadami Line is probably the only one running out of the station that is not electric and that's because it goes up into the hills and would be difficult to maintain lines above the tracks.

>>16415698
I have a feeling that at some point snow blowing becomes futile.
They have this at least to cut through the snow on the rail lines.

>>16416063
There used to be a blue snowblowers that sometimes I would see around this time. Wonder if it's operating or they might have changed to a new one

>>16416063
>>16416119
>They have this at least to cut through the snow on the rail lines.
Here, enjoy this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juftCWcpOg0
>I have a feeling that at some point snow blowing becomes futile.
most likely considering some of the areas with heavy snowfall
it's just that so far I have never seen people using them

Cozy atmosphere right now

Btw which player is the best to watch without the silverlight browser

>>16416390
vlc if windows is easy
vlc or mpv on GNU/Linux (there are a more obscure players as well)

The stream has been choppy lately however

it just keeps snowing!

>>16416795
Looks like it'll snow through tonight and then tomorrow, later in the day it'll tail off and then there'll be a few fine days.

>>16416809
that sounds great
hopefully we'll get good accumulation

>>16416795
Apparently there's a big freeze in Japan at the moment which is causing a massive snowstorms throughout the country

>>16416839
yeah, saw it on the news
Must be troublesome to live in the north around this time

>>16416843
>two meters (7 ft) of snow
Stay warm anons

>>16416849
>two meters (7 ft) of snow
Where is that specially?

>>16416874
Northern Japan, don't know the location specifically

>A 61-year-old woman was found dead on Thursday under a pile of snow in front of her home in Yamagata prefecture on Honshu island, Japanese media reported.

>>16416892
Spooky.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ii_JukUbJG0

anyone know the song title? it sounds pretty chill and when i tried to google the lyric it gave me nothing

>>16417477

サトウヨシアキ 「Dancefloor」 （2014/07/01 RELEASE ）
http://www.htb.co.jp/yumechika/records/yoshiaki/

I've been following this cam off and on for the last 2 years. It used to have the song in the description but it seems they took it off in the latest version.

Unfortunately, I haven't been able to track down a version for download although it was a while ago and I didn't look too hard. Let me know if you have any better luck.

>>16417626
>>16417477

Oh look theres actually a MV. Don't know how I missed it before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMpQF6fpIbQ

>>16417640
>>16417626

Nevermind, found something.

http://www.instamp3.co/dl/BMpQF6fpIbQ.html

>>16417640
>>16417658
You, sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

>>16414836

Thats a thick layer of snow on the roof.

>>16414838

Wait so which line is which?

>>16414825
>>16414854
>>16414859
>>16414868
>>16414875
>>16414893

Thanks for sharing anon and even more for commenting. Got anymore?

Shame no one got you on camera.

So what brought you to the Aizu region or are you based around there? Also noticed you mentioned "we", you arriving with other people?

the snow looks very smooth

>>16418583
>Wait so which line is which?
They use the same track until after Nishi-Aizuwakamatsu when it splits off.

saidaiji st

>>16419211
Fuck, that looks amazing

>>16419211
>>16419562

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTOOeMhCrWQ

Keep forgetting to ask this to you anons, was anyone watching the stream when the 2011 earthquake happened? Was there people scared and screaming? Trains completely stopped on rails?

Just of curiosity

still snowing straight

>>16420103
>Keep forgetting to ask this to you anons, was anyone watching the stream when the 2011 earthquake happened?
Yes.

>Was there people scared and screaming?
No

>Trains completely stopped on rails?
Yes

>>16420366
Snow picking up again.

Although if >>16416809 right, this could the last good snow this week.

>>16421069
Snow has stopped.

>>16421069
Mind you, I was basing my forecast on Accuweather which forecast that we would get 0.6cm of snow in Fukushima last night and we got about 10cm.
Driving to school this morning was hilariously nuts.

>>16421862
>Driving to school this morning was hilariously nuts.
You're an ESL teacher?

>>16421908
Indeed I am.

>>16421926
Well what brings you here sensei.

>>16424337
>>16424520
Those timelapse are very good. What settings do you use to get those result?

>>16424694
I didn't make the sunrise one but the sweeping one is 1 frame a second so I think it's ~30x faster than real life.

>>16385814
There is Chibi Maruko-chan's home ground

>>16424520
>>16424337

These are timelapses from today right?

It was cool seeing again the snowblower

>>16426038
I missed it! That was a rare event

>>16426050
Saw for a few minutes until I fall asleep for a nap. Hopefully a anon must have recorded it for a time lapse

>>16426038
>>16426050
>>16426111

Yeah it was the blue one.

Its so disgusting though, it kills all the snow.

>>16426111
hopefully!
>>16426122
I noticed it must have come around because the middle track was oddly cleared when I looked at the stream
Yeah, it's a shame it clears out the snow

Here's an interesting topic:

-What are some of the weirdest things (rarest events) you saw at the station? (whether you managed to capture it doesn't really matter)
For me:
-a wild animal walking at night, perfectly balanced on one of the rails (raccoon possibly)
-a girl that sat on the edge of the platform with her legs dangling for a brief period of time

-What rare event are you looking forward to seeing or what are you surprised you haven't seen yet?

For me, I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone fall or bump into other people in a conspicuous manner yet.

I also have never seen the front door of the rail car opened.

Please share /jp/!

>>16426146
>-a girl that sat on the edge of the platform with her legs dangling for a brief period of time
Cute?

I didn't see it myself but I think 2ch or Futaba captured a guy jumping into the snow, it was around 2010. I'll do a search when I get home to see if I can find the screenshots.

>>16426233
>I didn't see it myself but I think 2ch or Futaba captured a guy jumping into the snow, it was around 2010
here's something similar at around 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBHb7wb2qtU

>>16424694
I made the sunrise one.
I just record with OBS and time stretch in after effects. Then XMedia Recode for the webm.

>>16425199
Yes. Jan. 17th, sunrise from about 6h30 to 7h30

>>16426493
>OBS
How does that compare to using FFMPEG?

And great job so far on all the timelapses.

>>16426628
I have no clue. Never bothered to try FFMPEG.
I'm probably doing it the hard way to be honest.
I capture the whole footage, if there's anything interesting in any parts of it, I'll chop that part and make a short webm. If not, I'll just make a timelapse.

I made this ~7 hour timelapse, one image per minute. It features the snowblower. I can post stills if someone wants, I have all the frames as jpegs.

>>16427224
Whoa hahaha
Didn't expect it to come so close. Very nice catch, thanks for sharing!

>>16427224
You're amazing. Absolutely amazing.

>>16427224
Holy shit, that was awesome! Never seen the snowblower so close like this before

>>16427224
>>16427358
>>16427473
>>16428568
I made another timelapse, this time it's 24 hours, one image per minute, 30 fps.

nighttime snow

>>16432461
You can still see pretty well even without all the lights. Looks like it's snowing pretty steadily at the moment.

>>16432369
>>16432461
Sweet.

almost sunrise I think

>>16433797
increased brightness and saturation on this one a bit

>>16433422
>>16433462
>>16433498
>>16433532
>>16434165
The snow is starting to thin out ;_; Still nice screenshots though so thanks.


>>16433814
Yeah but otherwise still good job.

Foggy morning

>>16437902
Lovely. Love fog so much.

This weekend's forecast is snow.

>>16440047
How much snow?

>>16440644
Probably a good half foot.

Stream is very laggy for me.

>>16441299
Works okay for me, it was actually snowing for while until it calm down

It's snowing a lot now

Wonder what they're doing...

Rare event
Front door of left train open for service check

There was a guy whistling along to the arrival jingle

the quick arrival and departure of snow is an interesting quality

I suppose this is the result of being an island

Don't worry anon, I used to live in an island before moving do the US. Looking to snow in the mountains it is definitely a wonderful experience.

>>16455297
Shoveling snow is a less wonderful experience than watching it, though.
I pity the fool who shovels the platform after this maelstrom.

the snow level seems to have risen a bit

>>16455304
Shoveling snow isn't that bad, especially when it is fresh powder.
They more slide it off the platform than anything.

There's something i'm wondering about this stream. Why exactly is there a camera here and why would they constantly stream it's footage? What is the point of it?

>>16455795
Because they can.
Why not?

>>16455646
>>16455291
>>16455287

Woah all that snow and i missed it.

Anyone record today?

I hope there is more on the way.

spooky

Just tried to upload a webm.

>Error: Your image contains an embedded file.

;_;

A chunk of snow snowing right now

>>16460197
That's weird.

>>16461205
Not really, it happens moderately frequently due to random data creating a file check hit.

>>16460197
Just try encoding it again.

>One minute ago it was blue sky
>Suddenly snows heavily like this
Is that what North looks like?

>>16380692
Are then even two points in Japan far enough away from each other to warrant an overnight carriage?

>>16464357
The point isn't so much to have a place to sleep during an A-B ride, but to actually do a cruise. Except with a train instead of a ship.

>>16464357
There are a number of night trains in Japan, usually for quite long distances but also for the scenic parts (once the sun rises).

When you consider that the night trains aren't Shinkansens also, any distance you cover in the Shinkansen would take four or five times as long on a normal line.

>>16464580
>>16466070
They really love/respect their trains don't they?

>>16466927
Imo Japan is the last place where trains still have that long lost sense of romanticism and respect.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PEwFROochY

>>16464310
I checked a few hours before there it was a bright sunny day so I didn't bother and just closed it.

Was there much accumulation?

>>16466927
>>16468031
>Imo Japan is the last place where trains still have that long lost sense of romanticism and respect.

Well put. I had this romance towards trains when I was little but died when the trains I caught on a regular basis were the trains to school and work in the intercity train network.

The JR system, Shinkansen, the sleepers luxury and of course this station has reinvigorated my love, passion and romance for trains. Although I do wonder how much of that has to do with me being a weeb.

>>16468701
It's mostly you being a weeb.

>>16470978
No that there's anything wrong with that of course.

Oh neat, someone from another thread visited with his fumo. >>16472716

>>16474382
And no one noticed him.

People here have trouble noticing gaijins when they announce ahead of time when they will be turning up at the station. It isn't surprising that he was completely missed if he didn't let people know.

>>16475927
There's not much people watching the stream at all time, even less recording (if any)

>>16476342
>>16475927
>>16474382

Which reminds me. How did fuck did we capture moot at the station? I don't recall moot announcing his arrival there ahead of time.

Also in a strange way, I miss moot. Huge faggot but he was our faggot.

>>16476725
It was the smallest shitstorm of moot appearing I have ever seen.
He even posted in the thread.

https://spikejapan.wordpress.com/2012/05/20/minispike-the-end-of-the-line/

>>16484140
The Tadami Line is truly wonderful. If you ever visit Aizuwakamatsu I would suggest going on it.

The guy I went with a couple weeks ago rode the line like 140 times in the last year, and it only goes about twice a day.

I do like Japan's service attitude as well. In most western countries every line would be assessed for worth and closed if not making money, in Japan they pretty much keep them open as long as someone is using them. I remember one story about a line that was kept open for one schoolgirl who took it every day to school and back, and once she graduated it closed down.

>>16484823
>a line that was kept open for one schoolgirl
It was a bit of a misleading story, though the reality of it is still cute enough. The line continues to operate, it's only the station that the schoolgirl used that was kept open just for her. Since her graduation the trains on the line simply skip past that station, because literally no one uses it anymore (and the trip to either the next or the previous station isn't actually that bad for anyone needing to use the line less frequently).

>>16484907
I probably just remembered the story wrong. My memory is shit anyway.

>>16485254
>>16484907
>>16484823
Links to this story?

I vaguely recall someone posting it on /jp/ a while ago and there were several misinterpretations of the story like you indicated.

http://monovisions.com/life-in-japan-in-the-1950s/

>>16487685
I don't remember the original article, but googling lends plenty of related articles. The line in question is the single track Sekihoku Main Line in the rural northern Hokkaido (which explains the low passenger amounts), and the station that the schoolgirl used was the Kyu-Shirataki station.

http://www.businessinsider.com/japans-most-unusual-train-station-2016-1

The story was originally widely misreported along the lines of what >>16484823 said. Even in Japan it was at first thought that the existence of the line itself depended on the schoolgirl (and it is a bit of a shabby backwoods line, so no big wonder), and the Kyu-Shirataki station was misidentified as the Kami-Shirataki station (which exists on the same line and was also shut down around the same time, but didn't have a regular schoolgirl passenger of its own). Corrections to the story arrived after interest in it had mostly died down.

It's a cute place to look around in Google Maps. Since Google's captured images around the area date back to 2014, the Kyu-Shirataki station is still present there. If you went there in person today, you wouldn't find anything at all except for the single track railway; all the station infrastructure was demolished after the station shut down in early 2016.

The first train in this vid should be familiar to long time Aizu viewers.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64lH_a7hIdE

>>16488843
What a lucky guy that camera operator is, having a waifu who likes trains.

I dont quite understand, is there something special about this exact station that makes gaijins drool over it and watch streams?

>>16491362
You got another station with a good web camera?

9pm, heavy snow going down

>>16501661
You mean 8pm.

>>16501712
Probably. I always forget about daylight savings.

The snow looks very powdery and soft

if you look closely you can see a total of 3 people crossing the tracks through the snow, far away

quite the snowfall going on

woah!

>>16505553
Is that rotating like a tornado of snow? Looked pretty neat.

>>16505568
Yeah after looking for 10secs after that i did notice snow rotating and some of it sticking to the camera
Although it has calmed down there's still quite a bit of wind making the snow move all over the place

>>16488843
Are they still operating?

>>16505607
>>16505568
Would have been because of the wind coming over the roof of the left platform, down into the middle and then swirling.

Was pretty blizzard like conditions today in Fukushima prefecture.

>>16506404
There's no rail on Tanegashima and the closest line to the Uchinoura Space Center is the Nichinan line which is at least 15km away.

>>16506185
Nope. There was a god bye event for them last June. The girl in that video was at Aizu and has a video of it.

Made this a while back from a train cab video I found. I was wondering if I should make more. What do you guys think?
https://youtu.be/EwTfD4-EUVM

>>16507231
Damn, I miss that ;_;

Gonna miss those trains, it was long time stream watching those beautiful things

ah, i just noticed we hit the bump limit 11 posts ago. well, don't forget to prepare a new thread, whoever wanna create it

>>16506404
>>16506434
Is that gif real?

Both of the quoted posts remind me immensely of 5cm/s.

>>16505373
>>16503522
>>16505519
>>16505553
>>16505616
>>16508775
>>16510175
Thanks. Shame it doesn't seem to be much further buildup in snow.

>>16501661
>>16501712
>>16501899
Can confirm it was 8pm.

>>16491362
>>16496154
This question comes up often and has been answered often. Maybe it should be put into the new pastebin?

>>16470978
>>16471667
T-thanks.

>>16510175
This must be the quickest we reached bump limit.

Looking forward to new thread.

>>16414893
What were you doing there?

Tell me or I hack you!

>>16510266
Or even in the OP itself. How many random people would even read the pastebin?

rip thread