Dude yes, that would be so much fun. Get paid to shove people in suits onto trains. I would come up with a list of jokes/puns that would range from dad-level lame to uncle-level (still pretty lame but maybe funny).
**Things I would say while stuffing someone into a train...**
- "The last time I was stuffing someone this tight... (something something something, your mom)"
- (While pushing on stomach) "what'd you have for breakfast today, was it avocado? I think you may have accidentally swallowed the pit"
- "It's okay if you have to fart, it might help right now actually if you've got one in the chamber"
- "No, a happy ending costs extra"
- "I did train as a masseuse, but I was too strong so this is perfect for me"
- "breathe out, you can get more oxygen once you're in the train car. Don't worry, if you pass out, you won't fall, there's no room to"
Right? I think I'm bigger than the guys in this video, and I'm fairly athletic. I bet I could raise train capacity by 15% in the first six months alone.
To be fair, I’d be that guy. Can’t stand people taking their sweet time getting off the bus on my daily commute, I can’t imagine having to queue to get out of that cart. I’d rather lead and set an example.
I think he understands he wouldn't be able to do it himself and that he can get in there with help from the professional canning team. It would be weirder if he was just trying to ram himself inside.
I'm wondering if it's edicate. He's not the one being rude and pushing people further in, those damn rail men are doing the sardining. His concious is clean.
Is it considered frequent? Where I live it’s 1.5 to 2 minutes between trains during rush hours. 5 minutes or more only happens in late evening, close to the end of subway’s operation hours. The trains are half-empty at this point
I experienced this when living in Tokyo. Normally I would take the Yamanote line in the morning but a couple of days there was an issue with the line so everyone moved over to the already crowded Saikyo line coming in from the Northern suburbs.
Everyone lined up in an orderly manner and you’d get one or two people like in this video who would decide they HAD to be on that train. In Tokyo the trains run very much on time so people will know if they miss a particular train it can mean getting into the office a couple minutes late.
Anyway when you get inside it gets more and more crowded until if you have your arms up holding on you can’t get them down, and vice-versa.
What you don’t see here is when the train starts the weight of everyone shifts at the same time and people take mini hops back. Then forward, then back again like some sort of human jelly settling down.
It was an interesting experience doing it a couple of times. Would be madness dealing with that every day.
Fascinating! There was some article or other talking about how when crowd crushes happen it is because the mass of people takes on a quality similar to how water behaves with the ebb and flow and unstoppable force so your analogy of human jelly would not be too far off!
crowd crush typically happens when large crowd gets funneled into a narrow area. Thus the people stuck in the narrow end up getting crushed by very large crowd trying to move in.
In trains this doesn't happen because the doors act as barriers/funnels. Thus there can only be a few people trying to push in at anytime. Also once inside the train, the train is pretty small and uniform for any given dimension, thus you can't generate enough mass of people to crush.
As a germany this gives me Loveparade 2010 flashbacks where people literally suffocated and died because they were crushed by the crowd trying to move through a tunnel...
Ok, I didn’t actually think this was real at first, especially because of that dude who casually takes out his phone with a shitty look on his face and the woman looking at him like that. It looked like comedy to me, but you’ve convinced me it was real now.
And then when you get to the next stop, half the carriage pours out on to the platform and joins the front of the line again. You didn't get a choice, the crowd just carried you off.
Bro. I’m pretty claustrophobic, it’s fine being in small spaces alone, but being crammed in between people shakes me to my core. I could not do this. Imagine if the train got stuck…. Fucckkkk that.
Dang... I've seen dozens of these videos and never thought about what happens if the train breaks down. Do they open the doors and let everyone spill out, or do you just stay crammed in there?
If your a tourist it can be off putting to say the least. I was lucky enough to get to go to Japan in 2015 and from what I can tell the locals could really give a shit. Personal space really isn’t as precious to the Japanese, at least in Tokyo, as it is in the west. Any time we were on the train during the morning it wasn’t uncommon to see strangers sleep on each other’s shoulders during the morning work commute. Plus it seemed to me like you generally only deal with this level of crowding for like two stops and then it thins out pretty quick. I’m what many in the south would call “corn fed” and no one minded the fact that I took up a seat and a half on the train. Folks would just snuggle on up, even if there was room to stand. That being said those doors close hard as fuck and hurt like hell if they close on you.
I can guarantee they did mind if you took up extra space on a peak hour train, Japanese people are both really judgy about weight and good at hiding their true feelings.
I was taking trains at all hours all over Tokyo and lots of stations for a few days and it was just busy at worst.
I was prepared for something like this video and losing a kid. It wasn’t bad at all.
Everyone actually follows the rules of the road walking and getting on/off.
Now you want hell? Go through and door in India. Even worse if it’s on a bus.
This is 'Hell Lite' maybe. Folks that don't pay for winzip, etc. You want to know about 'Hell - Hell', check out a passenger train in India during rush hour. In July.
I've seen similar video clips over the years but I always think 'what if someone in the middle of the compartment wants to get off at the next stop?'. Also how infrequent are the trains that it is so very, very desperate to get on that one?
It seems that Japan has such a polite society that the train companies can't allow their staff to tell passengers 'Sorry this one's full, you'll have to wait for the next one' but they allow them to physically manhandle the passengers to get the doors closed.
Seems like madness to me!
1. You just have to shout sumimasen and hope someone hears you. A little pushing helps them hear you. The pushiest people I’ve ever seen there were old grandmas.
2. The busiest trains usually run every 5-10 minutes. I’ve almost never seen a wait of more than 20 minutes in central Tokyo.
I visited Japan recently for two weeks in April. We took the trains everywhere - about 40+ rides. Most were crowded but not too bad but two times we were completely packed like sardines! It was not fun but definitely an experience!
Yeah, I spent one week each in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo, and never once saw a train packed like this in Tokyo. *Packed*, by normal standards, yes. But not like this.
Has spent several months traveling in Japan a couple of years back, and the only time I have seen trains get this bad was two times. Both was when we made the mistake to try and travel at rush hour. We just gave up and went to a cafe and waited about an hour and then everything was normal again. The suit rush in the morning is serious and insane!
It depends on the train line , what time of the day it is and where you're getting it from. Yamanote Line and Odakyu Rapid, Express etc trains are always hella busy. I'm on the Keio Line and where I get it, I actually get to sit but, it gets really crowded when we reach places like Chofu, Chitose-Karasuyama and Meidaimae station.
Odakyu rapid express are what's near to me. And they are packed. I've had to skip a train here and there cause I just didn't want to deal.
Or I'll buy a romance car ticket for a reserved seat during rush hour.
It's only specific lines and specific times of the day that this happens. I've seen it on the Odakyu local heading to Shinjuku between 7 and 8 in the morning, but outside those hours, I don't think I was ever packed in like that when I was there for work or vacation.
I forget the exact times when it's worst, but it's only like that during the morning and evening commute, and only in Tokyo. I lived in Kansai and the trains there never got that crowded.
Sat at the station on Yamanote line and train looked full so figured I'd wait 3 mins for the next. By the 3rd train I just had to get on lol. 12 car trains full (not as full as vid) every 3 mins and all just... full to the brim.
It’s not such a big deal because everyone is going to get off at the same stop as we are all going to work in Tokyo. As a general rule, I will just get off of the train in the major transfer stations and then get back in after the herd of commuters has gotten out. Everyone knows what stations will be like this.
Also the trains are always ontime, over a year they are on average 1min late, if they are late by more than 5mins they give the passengers a letter to give to their bosses to explain why they are late.
In ireland our trains literally count as being on time if they’re within 5 mins of scheduled arrival time. That’s for the frequent services, intercity trains have a bigger window.
If in Germany a train doesn't come at all it's technically not late so it doesn't show up in the statistics. That's and that stupid 5 minute rule is how we got ~90% on time trains.
It's a small piece of grey paper with a cutout that indicates the number of minutes of the delay. Not exactly what the unknowing reader imagines when hearing letter or certificate.
i live around Osaka and whenever i get on trains like these during rush hour my body comes in contact with 2-3 other people and there was once i couldnt move my hand which was stuck grabbing a handful of a mans ass.
I literally heavily petted a business man in his mid 40s for a good 10 minutes.
My advice is to not take the Midosuji line at 5-6pm if youre travelling here.
This only works because of how organized the Japanese are. They stand to the sides when the train enters the station instead of blocking the doors. People at the door get off and let others out before getting back in. The people waiting at the station then get on after those people have re-boarded the train.
It’s a very impressive dance and it works extremely well considering the circumstances but you need to have total buy in from everyone. In North America the average person taking the bus is completely incapable of comprehending the idea that everything is smoother if you let people get off before shoving your way on.
What this video doesn’t show are the hordes of visitors trying to drag their check in luggage across Tokyo at rush hour and standing around on the left side of the halls and escalators like complete morons.
People at the doors actually step out to give you space so it's never a worry really.
It's extremely claustrophobic traveling in them though, if you're on the shorter side you get literally lifted off your feet and just hang there squeezed between everyone haha.
LoL, in Japan they will take tiny power naps at their desks which somehow proves to their boss how hard they are working. I worked for a small automotive manufacturing company in the Midwest that was bought by a Japanese company. Those fuckers do work their goddamn asses off.
I think he means they will take 5 mins power naps on their 12 hours shift. So idk if you'd like that. Work culture in japan is fucked from what i'm hearing. Or was it korea? Can't remember now.
Well generally they would be power napping at work because the previous day they worked 12+ hours in the office and only got home stupid late so didn't get a good night's sleep
They work at hard at looking busy. Japan has the least productive labour force among G7 countries, and 23rd out of the 36 OECD countries (in 2022 at least).
Is there a reason people won't wait for the next one? Jesus, it's not like Japan isn't known for their incredible public transportation, efficiency, and punctuality.
When I had to get on a train like this I used arrive early so I could wait for a few trains to pass. It would mean the difference between getting on a train like in the video and actually having some space to breath.
Yeah but on the other hand they spend like 30 seconds squeezing that one guy into the train and it is probably not the only door where that happens.
If people did not rush into the trian to a point where the doors could not close they could easily get a third more trains into the schedule if not twice as many..
That would indeed lead to less crowded trains even during rush hour. But then again people are idiots and will absolutely block the doors which will result in delays.
Lots of folks saying the next ones will be just as full. Maybe it’s just the volume of people? Tokyo is one of the if not the most populous city in the world. The transport system is efficient and punctual, but there’s also a lot of people that need to cram into them at rush hour.
I never saw that in Tokyo last year at any station, at any time. Packed trains, yes, at peak hours, but no pushing into the train. Not to say it doesn’t happen but it must be rare- I don’t think it’s protocol to do it anymore. Also the fashion, the old uniforms, and the lack of masks means ( especially on the staff) this must be a long time ago. Also since covid a lot more work from home and have varied hours so the rush hours aren’t so busy. Trains are usually a pleasure to be on during the day and night, the rush hours are usually the only crowded times, and not like this these days.
I've never been to Japan, so I'm just repeating what the most reknown youtuber about public transport has already said in his videos.
https://youtu.be/6dKiEY0UOtA?t=442
*The people know as pushers or oshiya are rare these days due to several factors like increased capacity in modern trains and less flux transit after the pandemic.*
Gather round, my child, and [let me tell you about the hikikomori](https://youtu.be/vtpzfQ4T07M?si=QESbwNgomcRcmbdm)
Anxiety makes so much more sense when you remember that every animal in the animal kingdom instinctively tries to avoid being noticed by predators, and the only true predators that human beings have are other humans.
Lots of people do. I commuted to Tokyo for 15 years and never got on a train like that. I got up early or chose a slightly better route. Most passengers in that situation don’t care at all.
I gotta say. I went to Japan recently. I wanted to experience this. Went out at rush hour in central Tokyo. It just wasn’t this.
No one pushed. Everyone qued and waited. And there was a train every 2 min. No need.
Maybe in more remote, less train places.
And a lot of time there's at least a little room in the middle between the two rows of seats. Everyone just likes to cram by the doors
At least that's how it normally was for the few months I was there
Imagine this is being done Anywhere outside of Japan.
The employees will need to have rifles in their hands to push Europeans into trains like this.
In America every rush hour will be a battle field.
I’ve lived in the greater Tokyo area for 22 years now, and I feel this is an uncommon occurrence nowadays. Trains are full but not to this capacity. They will be exactly as shown if any train in the entire system experiences a major delay screwing up the transfers etc which happens rarely. The most common cause is someone throwing themselves in front of a train to off themselves. This causes the scene in the video because the trains are all delayed and the platform keeps filling with people or people are causing over capacity on other train lines as they take an alternate route. Interesting fact: you can cause your family lifelong grief by killing yourself this way because the train companies will send a bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars (depending on the delay / line) to your family as they are responsible for your actions by blood relation. Source (Japanese) https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/4ef080b6e34c649bc7d84b5600bf9dedfef18b69#
I was stuffed on a train on my first visit to Tokyo. I was by the door. When the doors opened it was stop so I didn’t get out. That of until I was bull rushed (politely) by the throng of people getting out. That’s the day I learned that everyone spills out and queues up beside the doors to go back in after unloading. Haha.
One of only two times in my life when I was physically moved by a mass of people against my desires. The other one was at a free Garth Brooks concert at the State Fair. That one was a bit nerve wracking.
“What do you do for a living?” “Stuff people into trains.”
I want that job. I want to be the people-squisher.
Dude yes, that would be so much fun. Get paid to shove people in suits onto trains. I would come up with a list of jokes/puns that would range from dad-level lame to uncle-level (still pretty lame but maybe funny). **Things I would say while stuffing someone into a train...** - "The last time I was stuffing someone this tight... (something something something, your mom)" - (While pushing on stomach) "what'd you have for breakfast today, was it avocado? I think you may have accidentally swallowed the pit" - "It's okay if you have to fart, it might help right now actually if you've got one in the chamber" - "No, a happy ending costs extra" - "I did train as a masseuse, but I was too strong so this is perfect for me" - "breathe out, you can get more oxygen once you're in the train car. Don't worry, if you pass out, you won't fall, there's no room to"
Then the big booby lady shows up
Moto Moto approved
Ive trained for this my whole life
But what would happen if she does and her big booby hangs outside of the train wagon. Do they push it inside like they do with everyone else??
It's an actual job in Japan I think. Like in the video
Much rather be the squisher than the squished
I WANNA PUSH YOU AYROUND WELL I WILL WELL I WILL 🎶
Right? I think I'm bigger than the guys in this video, and I'm fairly athletic. I bet I could raise train capacity by 15% in the first six months alone.
I don’t like touching people, I’d still do this.
That's why you get yourself a stuffing stick. Sort of like the ram rods they use on cannons
Commuter compressor.
Let's see your resume
Probably union and has good benefits and a pension. I’d fucking wear those gloves and hat in an instant
I work at a cannery
What do you mean you stuff peep..... *Oh!*
They should totally hire retired NFL linemen for that job. I feel like their size and experience would make them way better at shoving people.
Do you mean retired sumo wrestlers?
Human sardines.
Train packer is a respectable paying job and you get to grope people all day!
Lmao the first guy didn't even try just waited for his slaves to push him inside.
It's the way he's just casually on his phone and then tucks it into his suit. He's so used to it that he's not even phased.
Lol did he send a goodbye text to his family in case he becomes spam
“Lol just got my legs crushed hav 2 go 2 hospital rn ❤️ u”
"Lol dudes putting me in rn I might be late for work sorry bro"
I was drinking coffee and almost chocked 😂😂😂😂😂
Chalked* Fixed it for you
MF corrected his mistake with the correct mistake. 10/10 reddit bless u
Phased - carried out in gradual stages. Unfazed - not disconcerted or perturbed.
Thank you, no one says this enough, people are always pedantic about low level things like they’re / there / their while “phased” gets a free pass
To be fair, I’d be that guy. Can’t stand people taking their sweet time getting off the bus on my daily commute, I can’t imagine having to queue to get out of that cart. I’d rather lead and set an example.
I think he understands he wouldn't be able to do it himself and that he can get in there with help from the professional canning team. It would be weirder if he was just trying to ram himself inside.
Reminds me of my cat at the vet.
It looks like a reverse birth
I mean, they are professionals pushers.
I'm wondering if it's edicate. He's not the one being rude and pushing people further in, those damn rail men are doing the sardining. His concious is clean.
Do you mean etiquette?
etiquette, never heard of her
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What no i don't speak French Edit: /s
Ah tell you waht, that be some goodly spelling
Gooder*
Gooderer.
Do you mean conscience?
Correcting spelling mistakes isnt proper edicate
Are you the type who’d let a person walk around with spinach in their teeth all day?
What is edicate?
The evolved form of raticate
There has to be a reason they don’t just add more trains to come at more frequent times. This seems silly.
Someone else said they already come every 5 to 10 minutes.
Is it considered frequent? Where I live it’s 1.5 to 2 minutes between trains during rush hours. 5 minutes or more only happens in late evening, close to the end of subway’s operation hours. The trains are half-empty at this point
This looks like what I imagine hell would be like
I experienced this when living in Tokyo. Normally I would take the Yamanote line in the morning but a couple of days there was an issue with the line so everyone moved over to the already crowded Saikyo line coming in from the Northern suburbs. Everyone lined up in an orderly manner and you’d get one or two people like in this video who would decide they HAD to be on that train. In Tokyo the trains run very much on time so people will know if they miss a particular train it can mean getting into the office a couple minutes late. Anyway when you get inside it gets more and more crowded until if you have your arms up holding on you can’t get them down, and vice-versa. What you don’t see here is when the train starts the weight of everyone shifts at the same time and people take mini hops back. Then forward, then back again like some sort of human jelly settling down. It was an interesting experience doing it a couple of times. Would be madness dealing with that every day.
Fascinating! There was some article or other talking about how when crowd crushes happen it is because the mass of people takes on a quality similar to how water behaves with the ebb and flow and unstoppable force so your analogy of human jelly would not be too far off!
crowd crush typically happens when large crowd gets funneled into a narrow area. Thus the people stuck in the narrow end up getting crushed by very large crowd trying to move in. In trains this doesn't happen because the doors act as barriers/funnels. Thus there can only be a few people trying to push in at anytime. Also once inside the train, the train is pretty small and uniform for any given dimension, thus you can't generate enough mass of people to crush.
As a germany this gives me Loveparade 2010 flashbacks where people literally suffocated and died because they were crushed by the crowd trying to move through a tunnel...
>As a germany Wait, there's more than one?
East Germany, West Germany, and Far East Germany. They don't go to Far East Germany as much. Not since '45.
'Some sort of human jelly' very much tickled me.
Ok, I didn’t actually think this was real at first, especially because of that dude who casually takes out his phone with a shitty look on his face and the woman looking at him like that. It looked like comedy to me, but you’ve convinced me it was real now.
And then when you get to the next stop, half the carriage pours out on to the platform and joins the front of the line again. You didn't get a choice, the crowd just carried you off.
“…so people will know if they miss a particular train it can mean getting into the office a couple minutes late.” OMG, that sounds horrible!
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Bro. I’m pretty claustrophobic, it’s fine being in small spaces alone, but being crammed in between people shakes me to my core. I could not do this. Imagine if the train got stuck…. Fucckkkk that.
But think of all the new friends you would make.
Dang... I've seen dozens of these videos and never thought about what happens if the train breaks down. Do they open the doors and let everyone spill out, or do you just stay crammed in there?
Unless it's your thing.
Who farted?
In hell there's no AC and we all run naked
Then you need to ride one Mumbai. Imagine this but with 100-degree weather and over 95% humidity. All you can smell are peoples armpits
Looks as though the largest city in the world has its downsides…
If your a tourist it can be off putting to say the least. I was lucky enough to get to go to Japan in 2015 and from what I can tell the locals could really give a shit. Personal space really isn’t as precious to the Japanese, at least in Tokyo, as it is in the west. Any time we were on the train during the morning it wasn’t uncommon to see strangers sleep on each other’s shoulders during the morning work commute. Plus it seemed to me like you generally only deal with this level of crowding for like two stops and then it thins out pretty quick. I’m what many in the south would call “corn fed” and no one minded the fact that I took up a seat and a half on the train. Folks would just snuggle on up, even if there was room to stand. That being said those doors close hard as fuck and hurt like hell if they close on you.
>and no one minded the fact that I took up a seat and a half on the train Oh they mind. They just won't tell you
Hey they snuggled up to him, they all judged the comfy person.
The Japanese are very much like southerners, they are incredibly polite… to your face.
I can guarantee they did mind if you took up extra space on a peak hour train, Japanese people are both really judgy about weight and good at hiding their true feelings.
I was taking trains at all hours all over Tokyo and lots of stations for a few days and it was just busy at worst. I was prepared for something like this video and losing a kid. It wasn’t bad at all. Everyone actually follows the rules of the road walking and getting on/off. Now you want hell? Go through and door in India. Even worse if it’s on a bus.
This is 'Hell Lite' maybe. Folks that don't pay for winzip, etc. You want to know about 'Hell - Hell', check out a passenger train in India during rush hour. In July.
Heck
We have such sights to show you 😈
I've seen similar video clips over the years but I always think 'what if someone in the middle of the compartment wants to get off at the next stop?'. Also how infrequent are the trains that it is so very, very desperate to get on that one? It seems that Japan has such a polite society that the train companies can't allow their staff to tell passengers 'Sorry this one's full, you'll have to wait for the next one' but they allow them to physically manhandle the passengers to get the doors closed. Seems like madness to me!
1. You just have to shout sumimasen and hope someone hears you. A little pushing helps them hear you. The pushiest people I’ve ever seen there were old grandmas. 2. The busiest trains usually run every 5-10 minutes. I’ve almost never seen a wait of more than 20 minutes in central Tokyo.
How common is it really for Japanese trains to be that full?
I visited Japan recently for two weeks in April. We took the trains everywhere - about 40+ rides. Most were crowded but not too bad but two times we were completely packed like sardines! It was not fun but definitely an experience!
Yeah, I spent one week each in Osaka, Kyoto and Tokyo, and never once saw a train packed like this in Tokyo. *Packed*, by normal standards, yes. But not like this.
Has spent several months traveling in Japan a couple of years back, and the only time I have seen trains get this bad was two times. Both was when we made the mistake to try and travel at rush hour. We just gave up and went to a cafe and waited about an hour and then everything was normal again. The suit rush in the morning is serious and insane!
That’s likely because you didn’t take the trains at morning rush hour. The main train/subway lines are this packed every weekday morning
It depends on the train line , what time of the day it is and where you're getting it from. Yamanote Line and Odakyu Rapid, Express etc trains are always hella busy. I'm on the Keio Line and where I get it, I actually get to sit but, it gets really crowded when we reach places like Chofu, Chitose-Karasuyama and Meidaimae station.
Odakyu rapid express are what's near to me. And they are packed. I've had to skip a train here and there cause I just didn't want to deal. Or I'll buy a romance car ticket for a reserved seat during rush hour.
Romance car?
You get a nice seat and can look out the windows, but you are legally required to blow kisses to people at stations you pass.
What the fuck
Gotta take the good with the bad. Reserved seat? Blow kisses.
It's only specific lines and specific times of the day that this happens. I've seen it on the Odakyu local heading to Shinjuku between 7 and 8 in the morning, but outside those hours, I don't think I was ever packed in like that when I was there for work or vacation.
I forget the exact times when it's worst, but it's only like that during the morning and evening commute, and only in Tokyo. I lived in Kansai and the trains there never got that crowded.
At rush hour it’s every 2-3 mins. Only safety margins limit their frequency.
Sat at the station on Yamanote line and train looked full so figured I'd wait 3 mins for the next. By the 3rd train I just had to get on lol. 12 car trains full (not as full as vid) every 3 mins and all just... full to the brim.
You say (not shout) ‘sumimasen’ and people will move out of the carriage to stand on the platform and then get back on.
Seems like more of a hassle letting all the people off at every stop--instead of not packing people like sardines in the first place.
It’s not such a big deal because everyone is going to get off at the same stop as we are all going to work in Tokyo. As a general rule, I will just get off of the train in the major transfer stations and then get back in after the herd of commuters has gotten out. Everyone knows what stations will be like this.
Also the trains are always ontime, over a year they are on average 1min late, if they are late by more than 5mins they give the passengers a letter to give to their bosses to explain why they are late.
Oh to take Japanese trains. Here in Italy they don't even bother to put the delay on the board if it's only around five minutes...
In ireland our trains literally count as being on time if they’re within 5 mins of scheduled arrival time. That’s for the frequent services, intercity trains have a bigger window.
If in Germany a train doesn't come at all it's technically not late so it doesn't show up in the statistics. That's and that stupid 5 minute rule is how we got ~90% on time trains.
Trains in Germany are the most un-German experience I ever had! Only made tolerable by the beer and food they served.
Shinkansen are always on time, Tokyo subway trains are not as punctual but still better than any other major city I’ve seen.
A "letter", lol
They call it a "delay certificate"
It's a small piece of grey paper with a cutout that indicates the number of minutes of the delay. Not exactly what the unknowing reader imagines when hearing letter or certificate.
Yeah but its still some thing, you ask that from a UK rail network and the response would be "for what hour sir ?"
Their system is so reliable that those letters carry legitimacy
Meanwhile a legit doctors note to my boss gets me a monologue about reliability for the company, and teamwork needing everyone present.
Found the American. For the record, I'm so fucking sorry.
i live around Osaka and whenever i get on trains like these during rush hour my body comes in contact with 2-3 other people and there was once i couldnt move my hand which was stuck grabbing a handful of a mans ass. I literally heavily petted a business man in his mid 40s for a good 10 minutes. My advice is to not take the Midosuji line at 5-6pm if youre travelling here.
Probably why they have gender segregated coaches as well.
In rush hour I have seen trains that come every 2 minutes and are packed like sardines, so it's not a problem of frequency at all
This only works because of how organized the Japanese are. They stand to the sides when the train enters the station instead of blocking the doors. People at the door get off and let others out before getting back in. The people waiting at the station then get on after those people have re-boarded the train. It’s a very impressive dance and it works extremely well considering the circumstances but you need to have total buy in from everyone. In North America the average person taking the bus is completely incapable of comprehending the idea that everything is smoother if you let people get off before shoving your way on. What this video doesn’t show are the hordes of visitors trying to drag their check in luggage across Tokyo at rush hour and standing around on the left side of the halls and escalators like complete morons.
People at the doors actually step out to give you space so it's never a worry really. It's extremely claustrophobic traveling in them though, if you're on the shorter side you get literally lifted off your feet and just hang there squeezed between everyone haha.
Has anyone died from asphyxia there? Compressing people is dangerous.
My worst nightmare
I heard a woman screaming that she was pregnant once while people where doing that. They just ignored her.
Grumpy ass mfer.. lol
To be fair, I'd be grumpy too in his situation
LoL, in Japan they will take tiny power naps at their desks which somehow proves to their boss how hard they are working. I worked for a small automotive manufacturing company in the Midwest that was bought by a Japanese company. Those fuckers do work their goddamn asses off.
I would love to take a nap to prove I’m working hard.
I think he means they will take 5 mins power naps on their 12 hours shift. So idk if you'd like that. Work culture in japan is fucked from what i'm hearing. Or was it korea? Can't remember now.
Both unfortunately.
Pretty sure Korea is slightly worse off since the country is run by like 4 companies that control the government.
Well generally they would be power napping at work because the previous day they worked 12+ hours in the office and only got home stupid late so didn't get a good night's sleep
They work at hard at looking busy. Japan has the least productive labour force among G7 countries, and 23rd out of the 36 OECD countries (in 2022 at least).
Is there a reason people won't wait for the next one? Jesus, it's not like Japan isn't known for their incredible public transportation, efficiency, and punctuality.
Plenty of people who will wait but when it's full there's always someone who will want to try to squeeze in for whatever reason.
Yup there's always the one
It’s because the next train will be just as full.
Will be a lot fuller cuz u didnt get on the previous one
When I had to get on a train like this I used arrive early so I could wait for a few trains to pass. It would mean the difference between getting on a train like in the video and actually having some space to breath.
yes, but if you stand in line, you get in first on the next train.
I don’t see how that helps from experience. You won’t be getting the door shut on you, but someone else will. It doesn’t make the train less crowded.
“Wait for the uncrowded train” is not really a viable strategy during rush hour.
Yeah but on the other hand they spend like 30 seconds squeezing that one guy into the train and it is probably not the only door where that happens. If people did not rush into the trian to a point where the doors could not close they could easily get a third more trains into the schedule if not twice as many.. That would indeed lead to less crowded trains even during rush hour. But then again people are idiots and will absolutely block the doors which will result in delays.
Every train is this packed at certain times and at certain stations.
Lots of folks saying the next ones will be just as full. Maybe it’s just the volume of people? Tokyo is one of the if not the most populous city in the world. The transport system is efficient and punctual, but there’s also a lot of people that need to cram into them at rush hour.
I feel like the first guy almost lost his dick with those doors
Good thing their dicks come pre-blurred from the factory.
Crush hour.
I never saw that in Tokyo last year at any station, at any time. Packed trains, yes, at peak hours, but no pushing into the train. Not to say it doesn’t happen but it must be rare- I don’t think it’s protocol to do it anymore. Also the fashion, the old uniforms, and the lack of masks means ( especially on the staff) this must be a long time ago. Also since covid a lot more work from home and have varied hours so the rush hours aren’t so busy. Trains are usually a pleasure to be on during the day and night, the rush hours are usually the only crowded times, and not like this these days.
I've never been to Japan, so I'm just repeating what the most reknown youtuber about public transport has already said in his videos. https://youtu.be/6dKiEY0UOtA?t=442 *The people know as pushers or oshiya are rare these days due to several factors like increased capacity in modern trains and less flux transit after the pandemic.*
Came here to say this. Seems like a video from decades ago.
The white glove treatment
So, literally hell on wheels.
Tokyo is either not a real place...or possibly the only real place.
I couldn't do this. No possible way. I feel overwhelmed in moderately crowded bars. How do people with anxiety make it in Tokyo?
Gather round, my child, and [let me tell you about the hikikomori](https://youtu.be/vtpzfQ4T07M?si=QESbwNgomcRcmbdm) Anxiety makes so much more sense when you remember that every animal in the animal kingdom instinctively tries to avoid being noticed by predators, and the only true predators that human beings have are other humans.
I'm sorry but no. Fire me I don't care, I'm not getting on that train.
Facts I’d rather get up at 3am then get on that train
Lots of people do. I commuted to Tokyo for 15 years and never got on a train like that. I got up early or chose a slightly better route. Most passengers in that situation don’t care at all.
Should have max occupancy rules
They do. Max occupancy: rules!
Yeah that was only 80% max occupancy, there was room for babies.
I think I'd be a good peoplepusher
The first guy : push me slaves lol
Imagine trying to get out at a specific stop
It’s actually not hard to get off when you need to. People are aware of others and will move off the train to let others disembark.
Lady was like nope
If one person pukes. Thats going to be a nightmare
Wait till someone has explosive diarrhoea they couldn’t hold any longer and the crowd pressure caused them to pop. Oh yeah
Don’t show this to US airline executives…. >“… it was then that we realized a 737 could in fact hold 1500 passengers…”
That guy looks dead inside
now i understand why there´s so much hentai related to molesting woman in trains
I gotta say. I went to Japan recently. I wanted to experience this. Went out at rush hour in central Tokyo. It just wasn’t this. No one pushed. Everyone qued and waited. And there was a train every 2 min. No need. Maybe in more remote, less train places.
You wanted to experience this?
Exsqeeeze me. You just pushed the farts out of me.
Why the fuk wouldn't you just wait for another train
Why has no one posted that meme of Homer disappearing into a bush!!! Missed opportunity
NOPE! NOPE! NOPE! Crowds stress the shit out of me!
Apparently a surprising number of people enjoys being stuffed if white gloves are involved
And a lot of time there's at least a little room in the middle between the two rows of seats. Everyone just likes to cram by the doors At least that's how it normally was for the few months I was there
"Sorry I'm late, my train stuffers were short staffed."
Damn
Humans are a non-Newtonian fluid.
Imagine this is being done Anywhere outside of Japan. The employees will need to have rifles in their hands to push Europeans into trains like this. In America every rush hour will be a battle field.
Lmao the guy at the end was having second thoughts but they just kept shoving
why don’t they remove them instead of pushing them on
Get off the train, fella.
Man it didn’t even seem liked he cared
See…..in the US, they’d be like “sir, get off the train” In NYC, the passengers would have shoved him out and like 5 other people by now
The panic attack I would have 🤩
Do you want crowd crush? Cuz that's how you get ants, Or something to that effect.
and still so polite
How do you get out when you are in the middle
I’ve lived in the greater Tokyo area for 22 years now, and I feel this is an uncommon occurrence nowadays. Trains are full but not to this capacity. They will be exactly as shown if any train in the entire system experiences a major delay screwing up the transfers etc which happens rarely. The most common cause is someone throwing themselves in front of a train to off themselves. This causes the scene in the video because the trains are all delayed and the platform keeps filling with people or people are causing over capacity on other train lines as they take an alternate route. Interesting fact: you can cause your family lifelong grief by killing yourself this way because the train companies will send a bill for hundreds of thousands of dollars (depending on the delay / line) to your family as they are responsible for your actions by blood relation. Source (Japanese) https://news.yahoo.co.jp/articles/4ef080b6e34c649bc7d84b5600bf9dedfef18b69#
Would adding a train or two really be that bad?
One fart.....
I was stuffed on a train on my first visit to Tokyo. I was by the door. When the doors opened it was stop so I didn’t get out. That of until I was bull rushed (politely) by the throng of people getting out. That’s the day I learned that everyone spills out and queues up beside the doors to go back in after unloading. Haha. One of only two times in my life when I was physically moved by a mass of people against my desires. The other one was at a free Garth Brooks concert at the State Fair. That one was a bit nerve wracking.