is a Japanese short

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programme broadcast daily by

TV Asahi JOEX-DTV (channel 5), branded as , and better known as , is a Japanese television station serving the Kanto region as the flagship station of the All-Nippon News Network. It is owned-and-operated by the a subsidiary of , itself controlled by ...

since June 1987. Produced by Telecom Staff and sponsored by Fujitsu, it follows railway journeys in various countries around the world, featuring people on board the trains and sights along the way.

Broadcast times

11:10 - 11:15 Monday to Friday

Countries covered

, 104 different countries have been featured, including the following: * 23 January 2012 - 1 April 2012: Hungary * 2 April 2012 - 10 June 2012: Switzerland * 11 June 2012 - 9 September 2012: Southern India * 10 September 2012 - 9 December 2012: France * 10 December 2012 - 10 March 2013: Canada * 11 March 2013 - 31 May 2013: Vietnam * 3 June 2013 - 30 August 2013: Bangladesh * 2 September 2013 - 29 November 2013: Sweden and Norway * 2 December 2013 - 21 February 2014: Poland * 3 March 2014 - 9 May 2014: Indonesia * 12 May 2014 - 4 July 2014: Portugal * 7 July 2014 - 22 August 2014: Morocco * 25 August 2014 - 24 October 2014: Mongolia * 27 October 2014 - 23 January 2015: Northern Italy, France, and Corsica * 26 January 2015 - 3 April 2015: Australia * 6 April 2015 - 5 June 2015: Thailand * 8 June 2015 - 28 August 2015: Germany * 31 August 2015 - 20 November 2015: Czech Republic and Slovakia * 23 November 2015 - 5 February 2016: Finland * 8 February 2016 - 6 May 2016: Northern India * 9 May 2016 - 29 July 2016: Argentina and Uruguay

Staff

The programme is narrated by actor

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, and the opening and ending theme was composed by

Hajime Mizoguchi is a Japanese cellist and composer. Mizoguchi started playing piano at the age of 3, and the cello at the age of 11. From 1978–1985 he attended the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music where he majored in violoncello. In 1986, he ...

Awards

''See the World by Train'' received the First Memorial Award at the 2011 Festival Asia TV & Film on Journey event.

History

First broadcast in June 1987, the programme was aired for the 10,000th time on 2 May 2016, making it the second-longest running TV show still being broadcast in Japan, after '' Tetsuko's Room'', also aired by TV Asahi.

References

External links

* (TV Asahi) * (Telecom Staff) * {{IMDb title, 0988827 TV Asahi original programming 1987 Japanese television series debuts 1980s Japanese television series 1990s Japanese television series 2000s Japanese television series 2010s Japanese television series