Railpass is a fun new webapp that puts you in a train seat staring out the window at real train footage. The default route is Japan’s Ibusuki–Makurazaki Line, and you can switch lines, toggle the weather and sound, or Randomize your route. You can also choose to board trains in another country.
Slow TV got its start from onboard train footage. In 2009, Norway’s NRK aired a seven-hour train ride from Bergen to Oslo, and about 1.2 million Norwegians, roughly a fifth of the country, tuned in at some point.
I’ve been editing and publishing my own travel footage into ambient videos for a YouTube series called Ambient Travel, so I stayed on this one a lot longer than I planned.
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