"Entering Shinjuku Station and Boarding Yamanote Line" (100827Fr-1400)

Entering Shinjuku Station via the South Entrance and boarding a Yamanote Line train where the six-door car used to be. The train that came in had a four-door car there though - apparently they are dumping the six-door cars (which are very useful during peak rush times) in order to accommodate the platform wall doors that they've begun installing on the Yamanote Line.

新宿駅南口に入って、山手線を乗る(さよなら六ドア車) 東京

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
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[lylehsaxon]

@Headcheezonium Yeah - it's good to plan things well in advance!

[Headcheezonium]

@Headcheezonium Thank You! I'm moving to Tokyo in a few years, so I'm starting to do my homework now.

[lylehsaxon]

@Headcheezonium It doesn't know which line, but all of the lines within each set of ticket gates (usually!) are run by the same company, so it just records where you got on, and then when you get off, the exit machine reads where you got on and calculates how much to deduct from your card. The Tokyo train system is fairly vast, so this is why they didn't begin to automate the ticket system in Tokyo until about 1991. Smaller (and simpler) systems were automated more quickly. - LHS

[Headcheezonium]

How does the turnstile know which train you're boarding?