卯酉東海道 (ぼうゆうとうかいどう Bouyu Toukaidou)
Bou (East) - Yu (West) Tokaido
Tracks
- ヒロシゲ36号 ~ Neo Super-Express
Hiroshige No.36 - 53ミニッツの青い海
Blue Sea for 53 Minutes - 竹取飛翔 ~ Lunatic Princess
Taketori Flight - 彼岸帰航 ~ Riverside View
Higan Retour - 青木ヶ原の伝説
Legend of Aokigahara - お宇佐さまの素い幡
Load Usa's White Flag - 月まで届け,不死の煙
Reach for the Moon, Immortal Smoke - レトロスペクティブ京都
Retrospective Kyoto - ラクトガール ~ 少女密室
Locked Girl ~ The Girl's Secret Room - 千年幻想郷 ~ History of the Moon
Gensokyo Millennium - 最も澄みわたる空と海
The Purest Sky and Sea
- Original Track, 2006
- Original Track, 2006
- Imperishable Night Theme of Kaguya, 2004
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View Theme of Komachi, 2005
- Original Track, 2006
- Phantasmagoria of Flower View Theme of Tewi, 2005
- Imperishable Night Theme of Mokou, 2004
- Shoot the Bullet Theme of Photo 4, 2005
- Embodiment of Scarlet Devil Theme of Patchouli, 2002
- Imperishable Night Theme of Eirin, 2004
- Original Track, 2006
Story
卯酉の道、心の旅。
――東海道の地下は日本で最も日本的だった。
The road of Bouyu, and the hearty journey.
...The underground of Tokaido was the most Japanesque in Japan.
Original Text
- ヒロシゲ36号 ~ Neo Super-Express
Hiroshige No.36
Hiroshige runs for the east, which is two girls inside. It runs for the east, which makes no noise or no swing.
There were plenty of vacant box-shaped seat for up to four persons, so even if you two sat there, nobody wouldn't sit with you.
The opposite direction in the morning is extremely crowded by commuters, while this direction for Tokyo is vacant.
It was good for them.
A warm and mild spring sunshine came from the windows.
This newest type of shinkansen features a half-panoramic view in all the cars.
The half-panoramic view is as if a test tube is running on the railway.
There're all windows except up and down, in other words, the walls of the shinkansen are almost the windows.
The left side of a blond-haired girl sitting against the running direction was a beautiful blue seacoast; the right side was awesome plain with no buildings and pine wood.
It may be having passed for 25 mimutes after leaving... In the far distance the Mount Fuji covered with clouds has shown up.
It looks sacred as if a wizard lives there.
Because of the effort of Mount Fuji Revival Association, Mt.Fuji has finally been authorized as a world heritage, while the one you see from Hiroshige looks much sacred.
One of the reason is that from the panoramic view of Hiroshige you'll never see any high buildings, power transmission lines or overhead wires.
On top of Mt.Fuji, even the seacoast on the left side is tremendously beautiful that isn't enough to be authorized as a world heritage a dozen of times.
Though to Mary, the blond-haired girl, what she saw the extremely beautiful Japanesque scenery through Bouyu Shinkansen "Hiroshige" was just a dull visual stimulation.
- 53ミニッツの青い海
Blue Sea for 53 Minutes
- "Hiroshige has large seats and runs very quickly, so it's convenient... But to me, it's dull to see just a 'fake' scenery through Kaleido-screen."
- "You say so, but it's more brighter than the subway in past days. it's because the picture on the tunnels. Feels like we're on the ground, don't we?"
- "I don't think Mt.Fuji on the ground is more beautiful than that in the underground, still I wanted to see the genuine one. I wish I took on the former Tokaido Shinkansen."
- "How luxurious. Nowadays, those who take on it are only people in Tohoku region, curious ones and celebrities. I reckon you're as carefree as people in Tohoku."
- "I'm a celebrity."
- ...It was before they were born that Bouyu Tokaido had started an operation.
After the Jinki removal of the capital, many people faced with the necessity of coming and going Tokyo and Kyoto. Suddenly only the former Tokaido Shinkansen hadn't been enough to solve the situation, so the government started developing a new Shinkansen as soon as they could.
After that, Bouyu Shinkansen "Hiroshige" was born. It runs between Kyoto and Tokyo in 53 minutes. This Shinkansen enabled the commuters to come and go between Kyoto and Tokyo, and it became the main traffic infrastructure of Japan all of a sudden.
Also, what it made people amaze is that the Shinkansen runs straight without any curves under the ground. From the first station to the last one, you cannot see any sky, sea, mountain, forest, the Sun or the Moon.