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So I THOUGHT I understood the meaning, but the sentence translation threw me
off. Wouldn't it technically be UPtown since the train is going up? If not,
can someone explain why it's set up this way? I might have misunderstood.
Thanks in advance!!![enter image description
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Simple translation for one of my Anki cards, why is 上り translated to going "downtown"?
上り used like this means the train is going to a major location, just like
English "[ _up_
-train](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rail_directions#Up_and_down)" does.
However, English "downtown" happens to refer to a major location in a city.
Therefore, in **English** practice, a train can be _up_ when it goes to a
_downtown_. This is not a problem in Japanese.
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