There’s definitely a beauty to the controlled chaos of the morning commute in Japan’s capital.
If you were going to describe the Tokyo morning commute in a single word, “crowded” would definitely be the one to use. This is, after all, the place where you might need multiple station attendants to help push the passengers far enough into the carriage for the doors to shut.
However, it’s not just the trains that are crowded at rush hour, but the tracks too. During the busiest part of the morning, it’s not unusual for trains to be less than five minutes apart on the most heavily used lines, and none are more heavily used than Japan Railways’ Yamanote Line, which loops around downtown Tokyo. To illustrate just how many trains are rolling along the Yamanote during peak commuting hours, Japanese YouTube user badger has put together this animated map of a typical morning for the central Tokyo train network, with the Yamanote Line (山手線) marked in bright green.
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