Yuuyake Koyake

At 5:00 pm, a bit of melancholy melody comes from speakers in Otemachi, Tokyo every day. This song is called 'Yuuyake Koyake', very popular children's song. It is also the test of the community wireless system for emergency situations. Lyrics are something like this;

Glowing of The Sunset and Gathering Darkness
 Translated by i-ADNES

Glowing of the sunset, and then gathering darkness
The bell has been tolling from the temple on a mountain.
Let's go home all together, hand in hand with all.
Let's go home with crows which are flying back in the sky.

Funny thing is a dog somewhere always sings a song together:)

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