#downbound = away from tokyo and upbound = towards tokyo
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Messes me up that they say "上り電車" (upbound train) to talk about trains going south and "下り電車" (downbound train) when going north here.
#japanese#japanese langblr#apparently it's bc if refers to the direction of tokyo?#downbound = away from tokyo and upbound = towards tokyo#and given i'm north of tokyo all trains going north are going further away from tokyo and are therefore 'downbound'#nothing to do with north being up on a map#still weird bc these trains obviously don't go to tokyo. they're just local lines going between shinjo and yonezawa#can also mean uphill or downhill apparently but the 'downbound' train definitely goes UPhill so that ain't it#victoria's big japan adventure
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