These are the ticket gates. But before I go through those I a ticket.

I ticket here from the ticket machine. It 290 yen one way to get to work, which is about $2.50. Some people use a pass or more recently their cell phones to the train.

Okay, I'm on the platform and this is my train - the blue line called the Keihin Tohoku in Japanese. The great thing about in Japan is that the trains are very reliable. They run frequently and are nearly on time. At certain times of the day a train up to once every two minutes.