Shinjuku Station

[Giugiaro21]

Paper ticket or magnetic pass?

[Mrfroufrou09]

@Giugiaro21

Both are possible.

[makinawdandy6699]

Japan is a good country.

[choi4816]

I got lost in this station once and didn't make it back outside for 2 days. ;)

[DinaIsAZN]

i am going here next week and its my first time so i am scared. what time is rush hour out there? i will try and avoid it.

Are the exits in english aswell?? because i need to exit to South one for my hotel

[NZ458]

This is not Shinjuku at it's busiest.

I've been in this station when there was twice as many people, and a good portion of them were running.

Shinjuku Station and surrounding area(Yasukuni Dori etc) is probably the busiest place I've ever been.

[sycopunk000]

It's not actually that big, it's just really crowded. It only has 14 platforms, where as Central in Sydney has 27, and Grand Central in New York has 45.

[tafusegawapower]

Sorry, but I broke out loughing at your joke.

I can say with confidence, you have never been come to this station.

Not only 14 platforms.

There are several private railways, subways, long-distance bus's terminal and huge department stores near the statiion.

This station's line, especially Yamanote line, trains leave every 2 minutes, so it's completely different Australian system.

Moreover, according to the guinness book, about 3.5millions people use this station everyday.

Not big???

[jhsa123]

@sycopunk000 Shinjuku station was used by an average of 3.64 million people per day in 2007, It is registered with Guinness World Records... 14 platform? that's only JR Line's platform. (acturally JR have 16platforms, and JR section alone handles an average of 1.5 million passengers a day).

do you know that? 40million people use railway service in Tokyo region per day. it is larger than australia's population.

(Penn station, largest st in us , is used only 600,000 passengers per day)

[sycopunk000]

@jhsa123 but how many platforms does it have? i know it's populated, isn't japan the most densely populated country on the planet? and i know tokyo is the biggest city in the world.

[AkibakeiRiE]

@sycopunk000 actually, japanese railway system and structure of station is different from other countries. there are many private railway companies and they have their own station with own line (JR East is private railway company too). so, shinjuku station is composed of 8 different stations (including Seibu Shinjuku Station and Shinjuku West Exit Station) of 5 private railway companies and 1 public transportation authority.

[AkibakeiRiE]

@sycopunk000 JR East has 16platforms and Odakyu Railway Company has 10platforms.

There are 3platforms in Keio Railway Company Section and 2platforms in Tokyo Metro Shinjuku Station. also, Tokyo Metropolitan Bureau of Transportation has 6 platforms with different 3 lines (including Shinjuku West Gate Station). Seibu Shinjuku Station, located to the northeast of Shinjuku Station, has three platforms. if i count Shinjuku Sanchome, Tochomae and Nishi Shinjuku's platfroms, there are 14more platforms

[AkibakeiRiE]

@sycopunk000 Shinjuku station is not one big station. there are many different companies own stations. this is why people say Shinjuku station is so big and complicated.

[TrickyEmu]

it is not that big! I've seen bigger and more crowded places in Germany.

[thomasgotschalk]

For your information: This is only a fraction of the station! You see the Central West exit only in this clip! But you're right, its obviously not rushhour ;-)

(Looks like 10-11am.)

[HatakuFT]

no way, never in Germany..

[SirVegas247]

great place. If u go to tokyo take lots of cash, as they dont take cards in most places. Learn a bit of Japanese too, as english is NOT widely spoken.

[thomasgotschalk]

If you're there for more than 3-4 days, its probably the best to buy a Suica!

[ItsudemoAibon]

A watermelon?  lol

[steba2006]

I really like Shinjuku Station

[CULAVE]

Ive read Shinjuku is the worlds busiest station- over a billion people pass in and out of this terminal every year.

[Radjehuty]

@CULAVE Today, that station serves over 3.6 million per DAY on average.

[akurio69]

Thanks for posting this!!  I'll be in that same station very soon.

[chitozaldarriaga]

Way cool... I was virtually "transponded" back to that place.

[rwangsa]

oh my god oh my god!

so familiar. i wont get lost, my guide is odakyu building, i stayed in keio plaza for 2 days, going to that way (which way?) LOL

[zggystardust]

Damn I wish So. Cal. had trains like Tokyo....I really miss it....I always came in the South Entrance....closer to my hotel and office...and the Narita Express.

[keeku]

haha, just yesterday was I standing around where the beginning of the video takes place, trying to find out where the shuttle bus was.

Was in a place I've passed by a 100 times, took me forever to find >_< "Right under your nose"

[butch1026]

it is so clean

[shinji1972]

I've been there just last week. Where the video begins it's were we used to wait for the hotel shuttle. We all, a bunch of italian guys, feel now homesick for Tokyo

[Gaijin19]

hahaha yeah onigiri :) I just got back from japan in march it was sooooo freaking awesome!!!!!

[ONIGIRIWARRIOR]

Strange... no sexy girls? Man, when I use shinjuku station, I see incredible mini-skirts everywhere! Even in winter!(*^o^*)

[inv3ctiv3]

Oh the memories, I love shinjuku to death, it's my second home.

[taichi2000]

That was awsome, I plan on going in december 2007

[Trailboss516]

I like your little hold-up when you got to the Suica-only entrance....I sure know that's happened to me a few times in traffic.

[tokoushi]

I picked that time just because I knew it would be relatively slow.... I don't like being squished like sardines.... neither in Tokyo or Chicago!

[rakmanenuff]

thanks 4 showing us the legendary shinjuku station, busiest in the world. i've been to grand central station once but i can't afford the tokyo trip right now..