Shinjuku Station

Entering the massive JR Shinjuku Station in Tokyo and buying a ticket.

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• Yamanote
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[CULAVE]

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

[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. 

[Mrfroufrou09]

@Giugiaro21

Both are possible.

[Radjehuty]

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

[Giugiaro21]

Paper ticket or magnetic pass?

[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 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.

[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.

[makinawdandy6699]

Japan is a good country.

[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)

[choi4816]

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