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In the News (Wed 15 Feb 12)

  
  Shonan
What we've described is the Shonan corridor, which runs from the Ofuna rail station to the coastal area of Enoshima (20 miles southwest of Tokyo).
Switches are extremely important with the Shonan system, in that the trains run in both directions on the single beam at all times.
Passing is accomplished at stations, where the beams split to both sides of the platform.
www.monorails.org /tMspages/Shonan.html   (200 words)

  
  Shonan   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Shonan (湘南) is the name of a resort-oriented region along the coast of Sagami Bay in central Japan.
The region's name, Shonan, derives from a scenic region in Hunan, China, encapsulated in the phrase 瀟湘湖南 (Chinese: xiao1 xiang1 hu2 nan2; Japanese: shosho konan).
In Japan, the scenery of the Shonan area was thought to be similar to the scenery around the Xiao and Xiang rivers in Hunan, China; hence the term "Shonan" (Chinese: "xiang1 nan2," another name for the Hunan region) came to be applied to the area around Enoshima in Japan.
bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/s/sh/shonan.html   (361 words)

  
 Shonan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Centered on Enoshima, an island about 50 kilometers southwest of Tokyo, the Shonan region stretches from Oiso (大磯) in the west to Hayama (葉山) in the east, including Kamakura (鎌倉) and Hiratsuka (平塚).
The region's name, Shonan, derives from a scenic region in Hunan, China, encapsulated in the phrase 瀟湘湖南 (Chinese: "xiao1 xiang1 hu2 nan2"; Japanese: "shosho konan").
Shonan is featured in an number of manga and anime, most prominently in Shonan Bakusozoku (Bomber Bikers of Shonan; also made into live-action movies) and Shonan Junai Gumi.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shonan   (443 words)

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