Wynter wrote:

Isn't it ALWAYS rush hour there?

in some ways, it seems that way, but i fortunately didn't get the pack in feeling when i was on trains...

i think Shibuya/Shinjuku stations are always packed, but even more so during the peak hours of 8am-9am, and 5pm-6pm hours, but all hours of the day, i remember seeing OL's, Salary men, school girls and boys walking around...i kept thinking, don't they have work/school to go to?

TaintedWisdom wrote:

ROFL this is so wrong but soooo funny. Wow, how is the train service soooo efficient and on time when these things happen X_X... I mean wow I complain when the New York Metro trains here get packed and I decide I will just wait for the next one but wooow thats insanely packed, there going to be like lack of oxygen inside of those carts... Note: the guys who recorded the videos were so messed up laughing hahah

fortunately i've always missed rush hour when i'm in japan but i never can understand why people run for the train when the next one's only minutes away.
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kenjilina wrote:

fortunately i've always missed rush hour when i'm in japan but i never can understand why people run for the train when the next one's only minutes away.

first time i was in japan, i was truly amazed on how on-time every train was, they're punctuality was truly the best!

i've been in japan twice...but only in the airport because japan was our stop over that time when we went to the states. but then i was amazed at how beautiful their airport is. the only stuff i bought there were two Evians and a bottle of grape juice. they cost 200 yen. and i also remember that i checked my e-mail there and the net surfing costs 100 yen for about 10 minutes. i had fun even though i was only in the airport waiting for the plane to get ready for our next flight.

qilver wrote:

first time i was in japan, i was truly amazed on how on-time every train was, they're punctuality was truly the best!

i once read in the paper that the london underground was proud because 85% of trains ran to within 10 or 15 minutes schedule.
the same article said that in tokyo 99% of trains ran to within 1minute of schedule.
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kenjilina wrote:

i once read in the paper that the london underground was proud because 85% of trains ran to within 10 or 15 minutes schedule. the same article said that in tokyo 99% of trains ran to within 1minute of schedule.

not sure what the avg time is worldwide for trains...that is near on schedule, but Japan's amazing punctuality is second to none!....miss one train, wait a min, and there you go, hop on the very next one.

This is what i want to see in Kyoto....i'll be sure to take lot of photos
Fushimi-inari-taisha, as you recall, it was in the movie "Memoirs of a Geisha"

don't have a pic of it, but i also want to visit the Arashyama area, bamboo grove forest of Kyoto....that'll be something nice to see.

qilver wrote:

don't have a pic of it, but i also want to visit the Arashyama area, bamboo grove forest of Kyoto....that'll be something nice to see.

Hope you get some good pics...

in 2 weeks I will be in Tokyo for a month. Its my first time ever visiting Japan..

�P���B�� wrote:

in 2 weeks I will be in Tokyo for a month. Its my first time ever visiting Japan..

SUGOI! I think you just made half the members here weep with jealousy!
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�P���B�� wrote:

in 2 weeks I will be in Tokyo for a month. Its my first time ever visiting Japan..

Hmm, then you'll probably bump into Qilver: he's heading out there about the same time...

bmwracer wrote:

Hmm, then you'll probably bump into Qilver: he's heading out there about the same time...

in 2 weeks, i'll probably be at the end of my trip heading back soon.

I'm getting the 7-day JRrail pass....
good for the shinkansen trains, and regular JR-trains in Japan, however, rail pass is only good for the Hikari trains, and not the Nozomi trains.

qilver wrote:

in 2 weeks, i'll probably be at the end of my trip heading back soon. I'm getting the 7-day JRrail pass.... good for the shinkansen trains, and regular JR-trains in Japan, however, rail pass is only good for the Hikari trains, and not the Nozomi trains.

so no warp speed for you then.
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AHHH MANG!! In 3! weeks ill be heading out to Japan... But ill be in Sapporo tho. So I get the nice weather...
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To all of you that are going to Japan: Lucky! lucky lucky!!
Even though I came back from Japan a couple of month ago, I am dying of jalousy.

Please say hi to Tokyo (and Sapporo and Kyoto and Hiroshima et al) from EstherM!
Let all of us know how it was when you come back!!!

kenjilina wrote:

so no warp speed for you then.

actually the JR-pass does include the Shinkansen train, just only the Hikari Shinkansen line, within that 7, 14, or 21 day period. I got the 7 day pass.

Gotta love the JR pass. I as well got the 7 day pass. Im gonna shinkansen everywhere I go. Maybe ill just shinkansen for the entire day to get my moneys worth..
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Bah, i'm jealous! All these people going to Japan, and i'm not

Anime Dad wrote:

Bah, i'm jealous!

Me too.


Sad thing is, I could go... But I don't have the nerve to go by myself.

Yeah, I'm gutless.