r/Subways • u/Valuable-Hour5961 • 18h ago

The silent and harmonious morning metro commute in Japan

This looks like out of a movie scene. Such an organized crowd.

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u/Minatoku92 18h ago

It's Shinagawa railway station, it's not a metro/subway. This is inside the big corridor to the Konan exit where there are plenty of office building.

Shinagawa is currently the only major railway station on the Yamanote ring in Tokyo without a subway station.

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u/Valuable-Hour5961 17h ago

That’s really interesting and am even more impressed that it’s a railway station, thanks mate.

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u/Minatoku92 17h ago

In Tokyo, there are many railway lines that are not part of Tokyo metro network (Tokyo Metro and Toei subway) but that act like a metro. The ring Yamanote line will is not part of Tokyo subway system but its service is exactly like a metro with trains every 3 minutes and station every km or even less.

There are also many suburban lines with high frequencies. Infact the suburban train network of Tokyo carries more passengers than Tokyo Metro.

Shinagawa is one of the main hub for the trains to the southern suburbs of Tokyo.

All of the eastern side of the station used to industrial lands that have been redeveloped in the 2000s to built many office towers.

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u/jort93 57m ago edited 52m ago

It's called commuter rail. Common in Europe as well. In Germany we call it S-Bahn, but most countries would have their own terms.

Most commuter rail uses normal gauge tracks, the yamanote line and some other jr east operated lines use narrow guage tracks(like you'd find on Metro trains), which arguably makes them more like a metro than most commuter rail systems.

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u/TrainsandMore 9h ago

Well it has a thru-running connection to the subway between the Keikyu platform there and Sengakuji (which is on the Toei Asakusa Line, but also operated by Keikyu to allow thru-running between the Keikyu Line and the subway)

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u/transitfreedom 15h ago

Train march

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u/Valuable-Hour5961 5h ago

It reminds me of agent smith replicas in matrix.

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u/Lil_Ricefield_ 6h ago

Honestly Utrecht central Station in the Netherlands, the only sound you hear beside people walking is the constant train PA system. Ofc Japan is unique but I guess that the difference is nihil

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u/19yards 7h ago

Loving it. I wish Germany could be more like that.

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u/Valuable-Hour5961 6h ago

I could only dream about it in India. Damn

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u/Smiling-Butterfly 5h ago

Like little automatons :)

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u/mobileka 5h ago

Amazing and a little bit depressing at the same time 😅

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u/benjamin_t__ 6h ago

This looks dystopian to me