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 subways in Japan, especially in the Tokyo area, will have heard the train melodies. Or, as they more affectionately known, "eki-melo" ( 駅メロ (eki-melo) ). These melodies are played to alert passengers th...