Istanbul by lofi train

What you see from the train

Istanbul is where the train leaves Europe. From here the route heads east through Anatolia to the Caucasus and on to Central Asia. The train arrives from Sofia through open fields, stops at a station hall with blue tiled arches and glowing hanging lanterns, and leaves for Tbilisi through steppe. Inside the carriage nothing changes: Toffee keeps coding and Cloud keeps reading.

The Istanbul track

The station track is Bosphorus Crossing, Late Train, a late-night focus piece for the crossing from one continent to the next.

Real local time and live weather

The light outside the window follows Istanbul's real clock: day, dusk or night, depending on where the sun is over the city right now. The weather on the stream is the live weather there, so rain in Istanbul means rain on the window. When the train is somewhere else on its 62-station loop, the mini-map shows where.

Watching from Istanbul? Type !hi Istanbul in the live chat and the city lights up on the map.

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