A brief musical voyage on the Keihin-Tohoku line

Story During the summer of 2010, while working toward my Ph.D. in biochemistry, I took my first trip to Japan.  For three months I conducted research at the RIKEN Yokohama Campus on a project sponsored by the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes.  Everyday I commuted between the Ōmori Station (大森駅)  and Tsurumi Station (鶴見駅) on the JR Keihin-Tohoku Line. Anyone who has ridden the trains and sub…