I Visited the World's Busiest Train Station

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As a Norwegian (from a country of 5 million-ish people), the idea of three million people passing through a single rail station daily is just mind-blowing to me.

The comparison to a highway is insane - more than 50 lanes! Clear proof of how much better trains are at moving people.

Shinjuku station, while busy and insane, still felt better than driving around LA. 100% would rather be in Shinjuku.

“How often does the train go by?” “So often you won’t even notice.”

I've always been irritated how slow fare gates are, forcing you to break stride. If Shinjuku gates are that fast, there's no excuse for gates everywhere not to be that fast.

I think the importance of 'little' things like the quick gates or the markings on the ground telling you where to go and where to stand in line can't be understated. Just goes to show the people responsible for this know how people move and what causes the flow of motion to stock.

If anyone wondered, the sign at 14:23 that won't let you have any fun said: 🚫No smoking 🚫No open flames 🚫No littering 🚫No dangerous goods 🚫No assembly without permission 🚫No unauthorized selling 🚫No distribution of flyers of similar, and No speech 🚫No excessive noise 🚫No riding motorcycles or bicycles 🚫No skateboards or radio-controlled or ball playing 🚫Do not enter in flowering plants 🚫Do not lie down 🚫It will ban the act to be a nuisance to ot

As a European, soon as you said, "Take a hint, Europe." I was like "Oi that's not fai......no no actually never mind good point"

So glad you included Eggslut. Tokyo does have night busses but they aren't very well known. A taxi from Shibuya to Shinjuku would less than 2000 yen The change between rail companies doesn't matter to us, everyone either has a regular pass for their commute or just use e-money like Suica and Pasmo, the computer work out the fare. Edited: the night bus system was discountinued in 2022.

15:43 Not here in Japan. High-speed roads have some of the highest tolls in the world. They're supposed to be removed whenever the roads are fully paid off, but the date for that keeps getting pushed back. Traveling cross-country via car is significantly more expensive than flying.

14:31 "This kid was loving it." — So did the "kid" behind the camera. And the "kid" watching this video.

7:25 in my past decade of living here, I think I’ve only seen the train pushers about a handful of times. They only appear at rush hours on heavy commuter lines (like the Saitama-to-Tokyo Saikyo line of the Chiba-to-Tokyo Keiyo line). From what I’ve heard and personally seen, they most often appear in the winter, when people’s puffy coats allow for some compression without injuring everyone involved. So while they do exist, they have become much rarer. I would also like to add that a noteworthy change that made Tokyo’s rush hour much better was companies allowing for later starting hours, which staggered the rush hour between students (6-8) and workers (8-10) who commute. After the pandemic, the rush hour was further reduced with flexible hours and remote works becoming more mainstreamed. So a lot of little things went into making this system what it is today. And (as of right not) I wouldn’t want to live anywhere else.

Shinjuku! My home town 😅 so glad you finally did a video here 🎉🇯🇵

watching this channel as an american is deeply painful, the rest of the world looks so vibrant and full of life and everything here is just dead, nothingness

Car friendliness in Tokyo is quite surprising to me. Tokyo used to have lots of canals but many were either filled in or covered with highways. Tokyo also had lots of trams but these were taken out when they built subways, and replaced with car lanes. There's also many times when I had to wait to cross a street that had literally no traffic because Japan really cares about jaywalking, while their traffic lights remain kinda dumb.

I live in Hokkaido and one thing I really like here is that most major train stations are also shopping malls (and even a bunch of smaller stations are connected to a small one). It makes so much more sense than then being plopped way outside the city. Also something I've noticed is that supermarkets are often mini-shopping malls themselves, at least up here most of them will have a scattering of other small shops within the building.

I laughed when you said the construction would be finished in 2047 -- then I cried when I realized that here in the USA construction on such a project would be STARTING in 2047.

If anyone noticed like I did @1:40 a Japanese man pulling a luggage wheel is wearing a band t-shirt called "Issues" which is a metalcore band I was heavily into from 2012 to about 2020 when they broke up. They weren't super huge, but it's crazy to see someone in Japan heard about them! Crazy and cool and random fact of the day :)

One of my favorite things about the Japanese metro is that if you swipe your card and go in the wrong gate so you then have to swipe again to leave, it doesn't charge you!!