Swedish furniture giant IKEA has converted the Kobe Portliner Monorail into a moving showroom before the April 14 opening of a new retail outlet at Port Island. The redecorated train, which features a colorful exterior, bright upholstery and fancy curtains, will carry passengers in style until May 6.
Neil Duckett
So now they've done my Apartment AND the Kobe train!
Daniel C
Although flashy and Euro, I'm sure it's still awkwardly uncomfortable
Ryan Kane
Only until May! That's too bad, riding to school early every morning in that train would have been surreal.
nicole
I Love it!!
bbop
I wonder how long it'll be before someone puts their gum on the seats :(
RubineBoy
That train could use a nice carpet too. And maybe a few plants and a coffee machine, ...
Alex
Can't believe it! Has brightened up the dull old Porkliner!
Sven
It will fall apart in no time..
igreenspot
riding this train everyday will be so much fun ! colorful !
L. Sue
AWESOME!! We could us some of that on American trains!
They should keep it longer than May.
Peter Martienson
Actually, they quite perfectly fail to please the eye.
Olaf
Without those fucking retarded vandals all trains could look like this one !!!
JOFLO
its amazing
JOFLO
LOL
iMorpheus
IT BURNS!
Robert K.
wow great that is something hard for the eyes :) nice blog!
greetz,rob
cocomomo
looks soooooooooooo fun! i'd love to go to school with that train!
adriana
Hey - great post! I am writing for a Bulgarian indi-magazine called 1 (like the number) and I would like to feature in an article on urban development these Kobe+IKEA trams. How can I get hold of high resolution pictures? Everything will be creditted of course as requested. Thank you so much for your assistance in advance,
Best regards
Adi
Andy
I wonder how many couples fell out putting that together.
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Timothy
I've noticed a lot about trains in Japan and other places that are designed really well. I wish this existed in the States. The US doesn't really dig all the bright colorful and creative stuff like this. America is very corporate and stubborn. I love Japan. I want to live in Japan. But first, first I must speak Japanese. That's a tough situation