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Public Transportation and Smart Growth

djean111

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1. I used to work in Tokyo. The train stations are wonderful! Food stalls, shops, people!

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Sun Jan 26, 2014, 12:01 PM

Jan 2014

To move through the crowd, I sort of approached it as if I were in a school of fish - don't look around, keep moving, keep my eye on my destination, and make tiny adjustments for people all around me as I moved forward, using peripheral vision.
I did avoid the subway crush in the morning by showing up right at 7 am; by 7:30, things were jammed up. No such thing as personal space. I would go back in a heartbeat.

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The 51 Busiest Train Stations in the World– All but 6 Located in Japan [View all] marmar Jan 2014 OP

I used to work in Tokyo. The train stations are wonderful! Food stalls, shops, people! djean111 Jan 2014 #1

I'm surprised that Takadanobaba Station is busier than Ueno Station Art_from_Ark Jan 2015 #2