Every day at five o’clock in the evening, many cities in Japan perform a test of their emergency broadcast systems. To avoid alarming or annoying their residents, the test consists of a pleasant melody to mark the end of the day.
Here are the melodies from Tōkyō and Kanazawa as I recorded them.
In Chiyoda, Tōkyō, the melody is the children’s song “Yūyake Koyake” (夕焼小焼)
In Kanazawa, the melody is the Westminister Quarters.