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Identify JR East Hikari train melody 2018/4/20 12:02
I am looking for a clean file of this melody (my recording, obvs, from the train is not ideal) - I want to make this my ringtone. Please heeeelllllp! I recorded this on a Hikari train from Tokyo to Nagano in January.

I put up the vid on youtube (not spam I swear!) and am hoping somebody can help me identify and find a file. I've listened to a zillion youtube vids and downloaded a number of archives and no luck so far :(

https://youtu.be/CXa1aOMTVnA - If my edit has not been processed yet, go to 5:50 to play it. If my edit (to cut the vid down to 17 seconds has been processed, ignore obviously)

thanks,
Alex
by thatguyalex  

Re: Identify JR East Hikari train melody 2018/4/20 14:40
Maybe you have no luck because you search for the wrong train name... Hikari trains do not run between Tokyo and Nagano. (Do you mean Nagoya?)
by Firas rate this post as useful

Re: Identify JR East Hikari train melody 2018/4/20 18:45
Exactly sound quality was pretty bad, but it was very easy Q for me, you are lucky.
Just Shinkansen name is wrong, not Hikari, you took "Hokuriku Shinkansen W7 series".

The song title is "Hokuriku Roman(=Romance) 北陸ロマン" many uploaded on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/vKWt24k8PjQ
https://youtu.be/UlpWrFjQWxo
The original song (with lyrics) is created and sung by very famous big singer-song writer "Shinji Tanimura".
(His super big hit single "Subaru" is very famous even in most Asian countries.)
("Subaru" is star M45 name of "Pleiades", big motor company name "Subaru" also same origin)

This is Hokuriku Roman special duet version(not full chorus) with "Nakama Yukie".
https://youtu.be/3aGfGqlaX2g
She also very famous actress and one of big sales promotion character of "JR-WEST".
https://www.jr-odekake.net/navi/discoverwest/cm/

So you took the shinkansen unit was not "JR-EAST E7 series", "W7 series" is.
(Do you remember which shinakansen name is? this is no important, though)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokuriku_Shinkansen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W7_Series_Shinkansen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E7_Series_Shinkansen

Your cell phone also recorded big evidences of "W7 Green car" at last.
http://livedoor.blogimg.jp/osakanaexp/imgs/1/d/1d323a23.jpg
If amateurs see it will be mistaken as "Hikari" mostly,
bc it looks like normal blue seats of Tokaido Shinkansen ordinary seat cars,
(Hikari is "JR-Central" Shinkansen, N700 series units using)
Even in the first, I noticed that color of the wall are roof light are different from N700.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N700_Series_Shinkansen
(jump to "Interior", seat back table sticker is quite different is really easy point)

Anyway, this is original song lyrics is, and Shinkanen chime part is used only first line.
https://www.uta-net.com/song/181996/
"大人になったら、日本海に逢いたくなる (Otona ni nattara, Nihon-kai ni Aitaku naru)"
means "Growing up an adult, want to see/meet(go to) the See of Japan".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_of_Japan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokuriku_region
The content of the lyrics is a sorrow of adult woman's love song,
so it is not just "Let's go to the Hokuriku area!" like travel campaign.
However, it is difficult to translate it perfectly into English.

If you are also interested in chime of other trains in Japan,
it is easy to search as word in Japanese "車内チャイム (shanai chime)" .
車内 means just "car inside" as cabin, trains and buses mainly.
Japanese Rail fans also like "発車メロディー (hassha = departure melody)".
Some have become clocks or sound toy like this.
https://youtu.be/0IIy6SoSK5E
Even though no musical score, making "MIDI" and play by myself are very unusual.
https://youtu.be/KNGHcje7G50
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC023Dex2iyeaTNac2PhvoCg/videos?disabl...
Although it may not be well known abroad, the influence of sound on human beings is quite large,
In Japan, it is actively used for research, daily life and productivity improvement.
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Re: Identify JR East Hikari train melody 2018/4/20 21:27
It is Hokuriku Roman!!! Awesome thanks!!
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