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Kobe Shin-Kobe Station 4 Nov 2007
This photo shows a group of girls on the platform opposite ours (they were waiting for a shinkansen going away from Tokyo – roughly toward Hiroshima, if I remember the geography correctly). We saw children in school uniforms like this on a few occasions (it is, perhaps, a factor that contributes to them adopting the trendy clothes -- seen in an earlier photo -- once they get out of school). We also saw the two-finger hand signal visible in this photo on a few other occasions. I'm not sure what it means. It SEEMED friendly, but I'm not certain.
Obviously the platform is level, not sloping uphill as it appears here. I was the camera that was "unlevel". Probably should have edited this photo to level out that platforrm.
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