Fuck Japan and all its technology! Instead of compacting people for half an hour at each station, run more trains and make them stay at each station less…
From personal experience, a hell of a lot. And they really have no brains about it.
I used to live in Kawasaki and worked in western Tokyo, near Kichijoji, which meant I used a minimum of 3 train lines to get to work in the morning. The difference between nearly empty trains and completely packed trains in the morning rush is literally 10 minutes. Leave for work 10 minutes earlier, and you don’t have to deal with that insanity. You can even sit down!
However, that doesn’t even cross their minds. They have their schedules set up so that, if they catch this train at this time, and then that train at that time, they will arrive at work at exactly this time, which is 2 minutes before they need to arrive. Once that is set, they don’t vary it.
Another, kind of different example comes when there are local and express trains at the same time. On the Toyoko line between Yokohama and Shibuya, there is a station called Jiyuugaoka where you can switch between local and express (it’s not the only station, but it is the closest one to Shibuya where the local will stop to let an express pass). The express trains usually wind up getting jam-packed there, while the local trains are often empty. The difference in arrival times? 4 minutes!
So, the video doesn’t surprise me at all. Anyone know where that is? Based on the colors, I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the Nanbu line between Kawasaki and Tachikawa (unless that video is from another city). I’ve seen it like that before, and that is why I usually walked from Musashi-Nakahara, where I lived, to Musashi-Kosugi, where I would catch the Toyoko line.
Let me do some defence against this situation.
I live in Japan, and was in Tokyo for many years.
What mamoru has written above is true in many occasions,
but it doesn’t mean we Japanese are so stupid not to take tk’s advice,
“run more trains and make them stay at each station less”.
There are already too much trains and too short stops at each stations.
(Unless the crew cramming stupids into the train like in the movie above.)
For example, the central circular trainline “Yamanote-sen” runs so many train that
when you walk from one end of the platform to the other, the next train will come in.
Japan’s railway might be famous (or maybe notorious) for its punctuality,
but some lines give up showing train time tables.
In rush hour, it just says “every train will come in 2 minutes after the previous one”.
infact, how do you think all those dolphins feel as they are herded into the shallows by bloodthirsty twats, fins hacked off etc, etc, etc. who gives a fuck if the trains are packed. i hope they de-rail.
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Fuck Japan and all its technology! Instead of compacting people for half an hour at each station, run more trains and make them stay at each station less…
This is truly unbelievable!
I out up with that every morning for three years. I will never go to Tokyo without a car again.
The town I lived in was already over populated for public transport and they were still putting up more high density housing when I left.
From personal experience, a hell of a lot. And they really have no brains about it.
I used to live in Kawasaki and worked in western Tokyo, near Kichijoji, which meant I used a minimum of 3 train lines to get to work in the morning. The difference between nearly empty trains and completely packed trains in the morning rush is literally 10 minutes. Leave for work 10 minutes earlier, and you don’t have to deal with that insanity. You can even sit down!
However, that doesn’t even cross their minds. They have their schedules set up so that, if they catch this train at this time, and then that train at that time, they will arrive at work at exactly this time, which is 2 minutes before they need to arrive. Once that is set, they don’t vary it.
Another, kind of different example comes when there are local and express trains at the same time. On the Toyoko line between Yokohama and Shibuya, there is a station called Jiyuugaoka where you can switch between local and express (it’s not the only station, but it is the closest one to Shibuya where the local will stop to let an express pass). The express trains usually wind up getting jam-packed there, while the local trains are often empty. The difference in arrival times? 4 minutes!
So, the video doesn’t surprise me at all. Anyone know where that is? Based on the colors, I wouldn’t be surprised if that is the Nanbu line between Kawasaki and Tachikawa (unless that video is from another city). I’ve seen it like that before, and that is why I usually walked from Musashi-Nakahara, where I lived, to Musashi-Kosugi, where I would catch the Toyoko line.
I just want to know how one would get out of that train when it arrives at their stop.
I am really impressed by the pushers. I am sure they are special hires- perhaps recommended by likes of World Wrestling Federation.
I think this is just a put-on
Let me do some defence against this situation.
I live in Japan, and was in Tokyo for many years.
What mamoru has written above is true in many occasions,
but it doesn’t mean we Japanese are so stupid not to take tk’s advice,
“run more trains and make them stay at each station less”.
There are already too much trains and too short stops at each stations.
(Unless the crew cramming stupids into the train like in the movie above.)
For example, the central circular trainline “Yamanote-sen” runs so many train that
when you walk from one end of the platform to the other, the next train will come in.
Japan’s railway might be famous (or maybe notorious) for its punctuality,
but some lines give up showing train time tables.
In rush hour, it just says “every train will come in 2 minutes after the previous one”.
fuck em all. drop another on em. they eat and kill anything.
infact, how do you think all those dolphins feel as they are herded into the shallows by bloodthirsty twats, fins hacked off etc, etc, etc. who gives a fuck if the trains are packed. i hope they de-rail.
It reminds me of the time when I tried to stuff things in to overflowing cardboard box