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I remember going through that when I was a young'un. It generally wasn't quite as bad as in that video, but the Chuo sen at 7am was usually quite crowded.
That is horrifying. It's one thing for it to be crowded. But they are shoving people onboard! There's a point where people just have to wait for the next train.
How does someone in the middle get off at their stop? Or is everyone going to the same stop?
The weird thing about train crowding is that if I skip a crowded train, the next one is likely to be rather empty? Is that because I'm usually a tourist in cities with subways, and thus can miss a train without being late to work (unlike everyone else, who must be on the 7:35 subway!)?
I skip crowded trains, too, muddgirl... I'd rather been fifteen or twenty minutes late getting home or to work (it's usually in the afternoon, going home) than be packed in like a sardine in a can.
This is one reason I go into work early. Even at 6.30am I sometimes have to stand on the train. The Underground doesn't get quite as bad as that video, but it can get very unpleasant, especially for me, at 4ft 11 tall, because I can't reach the overhead handrails. And I come up to armpit level on many a stinker.
Done the train cram many a time - no point in waiting for the next one cause they are going to be like that for the next hour.
They don't list which station that is - but it looks like the Sobu line - and I assume from the crush level they'd all be getting out not so far down the line.
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