J1 Travel: Restored private railway services, added new providers

Wed, 12/28/2022 - 07:45

We have fixed our Twitter interface and made enhancements to remove hashtags and URLs from the Japanese results.  This restores our services for the following providers:

  • Seibu
  • Keisei
  • Keio
  • Odakyu
  • Tokyu
  • Tobu
  • Keikyu

We have also added Yurikamome and later this week, we will add Sotetsu to the Twitter interface.

We will be doing a code conversion of the Twitter interface soon.

We have added a new API interface with the Public Transportation Open Data Center, which will support the following providers:

  • Tokyo Metro
  • Toei (Subway, Toden Arakawa and Nippori-Toneri Liner)
  • Rinkai Line

The new API interface also adds in the following new providers:

  • Yokohama Municipal Subway
  • Tama Monorail
  • Tsukuba Express

We are still awaiting delay reports from the API-supported providers to test our system updates. 

Will be doing additional work on both the Twitter and  API interfaces to support language translation at a future time.

These interfaces allow us to to provide Tokyo area train delay information on the following platforms:

  • Over the air on J1 HITS, J1 XTRA and J1 GOLD.
  • At the J1 Radio website.
  • On the J1 Radio mobile app.
  • Our Twitter feed @j1_travel
  • Our Mastodon feed @j1travel @LPFM.social

 

Date: 
Wednesday, December 28, 2022
Systems affected: 
J1 Hits audio streaming
J1 XTRA audio streaming
J1 GOLD audio streaming
J1FM.tokyo website
DataStore
Issue type: 
Enhancement