"Walking Down Marunouchi Line Platform at Yotsuya" (100408-1624)

Walking down the Marunouchi Line platform at Yotsuya Station (on the platform for trains headed towards Kasumigaseki/Ginza), looking around.

Notice the new platform edge barriers (same concept as elevators with their double doors). Certainly it's safer to have them and it's a good idea, etc., but still there is something about them I don't like. New stations have ever more walls - walls to stop cold winds in winter (and fresh breezes in spring); walls to stop accidents and suicides (and a view of the trains when they come in), etc. It feels slightly claustrophobic.

There is also a view of some of the buildings of Sophia University - over on the other side of the rampart.

When the Marunouchi Line comes in, I climb aboard - showing the inside of the train as it descends into the tunnel (it's aboveground at Yotsuya).

四谷駅の丸の内線のホーム散歩 東京 (Recorded on Thursday, April 8th, 2010, at 4:24 p.m.)

Lyle (Hiroshi) Saxon
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[lylehsaxon]

@brain2inov It's definitely safer. It's just that I've been using this station on and off for 25 years and it was just open all that time. Also, I've always found the rush of the train coming into the station kind of exciting. Still... there was at least one incident in the news where some mentally disturbed individual pushed someone off the platform for no reason. With that sort of thing - yeah, it's definitely great to have those there. Still... I wish they weren't... - LHS

[brain2inov]

They could have made those platform barriers in a transparent material and only painted the doors. I think that would reduce the impression of claustrophobia. Still i would like to have some of those platform barriers here i would feel so much safer on the subway.