3. April 2009
Yamanote full stop
In Tokyo almost everybody gets anywhere by using the subway & railway-system. One of the lifelines of this city is the Yamanote-Line, a circle line which takes about 90 minutes to loop around the major parts of Tokyo.
Today the Yamanote was completely halted for about 3 hours. You’d expect total chaos on the railway stations – but not in Tokyo. The trains which could be used to bypass the Yamanote line were really crowded, you could not fall, no matter how fast the train accelerated or how hard it braked. You could barely move your arms.
But at the end everything went in order, no pushing, no scramble on the platform, everybody was just lined up to eventually enter a train which had some space left.
Filed by Deadlock at 23:23 under Japan, April '09
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