These nifty little clocks are painted like real Japanese trains. Cutie Gadget explains:
These trains are the real trains Japan, and there are 6 choices of this train clock: the Sanyo Electric Railway Co., Shintetsu 5000 form, Senboku 5000 high-speed rail system, Hankyu 9300 series, 8000 Keihan train system and Osaka municipal subway system 10.
They’re ¥2000 yen apiece, available in Japan.
Product Page [Surutto.com via CutieGadget.com]
Ah, but do you get to play your favorite station’s jingle as a wakeup alarm like this one for Tokyo’s Yamanote line.
Note that I’m pretty sure Engadget is wrong about the radio train schedule thing since Yamanote trains come around every two and a half minutes. Japanese may be anal about time, but not that anal. But from watching so many people sleep on the train I’m certain that many of them are conditioned to wake up when they hear their home stations platform jingle.