People stuffed onto a train in Tokyo, Japan (train stuffing Tokyo)

train stuffing tokyo0 HN recommenders · 2017–2021
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Short 2006 footage of station staff in white gloves pushing commuters onto a packed morning train at a Tokyo station on the Toyoko Line.

Linked as the standard illustration of Tokyo's rush-hour crowding whenever commuting and density come up.

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4 comments from Hacker News

@mcny2017 · in “Who’s Sitting Next to You on the Subway? An R Train in September”

Can you imagine the lawsuits if we were to have staff push people here? [VIDEO] By the way, as bad as things are in New York MTA, I find it much better than the stupidity of the path train (panynj). We have like four routes to manage and we can't do that properly.

@anabis2018 · in “Why Invest in Cities? There's Always Another Boise”

Most people commute by train. We are improving, but the morning commute is something foreigners consider particularly wacky, and not something that they want to repeat everyday. [VIDEO]

@taeric2020 · in “Keeping the coronavirus from infecting healthcare workers”

It would need testing to show they don't have a prevalence of "mild" cases. Not to mention we should have numbers on how often they wear masks. Last I saw, it was not everyone that did that. Edit for reference: [VIDEO]

@iszomer2021 · in “Tokyo police lose 2 floppy disks containing info on public housing applicants”

Japan has also been known to cram passengers into trains during rush hour. I imagine this practice has probably been fervently deprecated due to covid19. [VIDEO]