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Commuting in Tokyo

I guess a lot of people have heard stories of people getting packed into trains at rush hour in Japan. Here's a decent clip of what it actually looks and sounds like at a suburban station. So quiet!



Amanda and I did this for only a week or so when we first moved to Tokyo. I remember on the first day we just stood back in disbelief and watched 3 trains fill up and go past, but eventually had to surrender and just do it. In our case the station we were commuting from was the last on the line where you got in on that particular side, so for the rest of the trip more and more people were crammed in on the other side, forcing us back against the closed doors on our side more and more heavily. On that first day there was a tiny woman between Amanda and the door, and I remember the sound of the air forcibly escaping her lungs at every new station.

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Posted at 11:20