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1991-1995

Just another workday

Taken at the Yokohama train station during my daily commute from Tokyo to an English-teaching job at Hitachi headquarters. The trains in Tokyo are really as crowded as they say.

Snowy Tokyo, posted earlier:

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jtocaciu08-Mar-2025 05:39
Amazing image of a different culture. It is a valuable capture. V.
Jeremy03-Nov-2024 01:21
Rush-hour crowd of people commuting to work in the morning ... but it looked quite an 'orderly' crowd to me - the people were actually lined up. V
Pieter Bos01-Nov-2024 19:38
Other time, other dress mode. Always nice to see those old pictures. ~V
Don Mottershead26-Oct-2024 19:44
That would get old pretty quick. But it is still a better commute than the traffic congestion in many big cities.
Jeff Real26-Oct-2024 13:48
This i s brilliant documantary work and now it is fine art!
All bases covered here!
V
Julie Oldfield25-Oct-2024 23:54
They appear very robotic lined up like that. Such a fascinating image. V
Kevin D Warren25-Oct-2024 20:57
An excellent and fascinating documentary shot. Pretty sure I'd experience some claustrophobia if I had to do this.
Carl Carbone25-Oct-2024 18:13
Interesting shot of daily life there.
Blandine Mangin25-Oct-2024 10:39
ils sont plus disciplinés que les parisiens dans le métro ! jolie scène de vie ! v
Danad25-Oct-2024 10:00
The salary men (few women here) ready to go to work ...
Many, many people but discipline rules (also nowadays!).
*V*
Liz Bickel25-Oct-2024 07:45
I wouldn't want to do this every day. However, I was very impressed with just how polite and orderly that the Japanese are while waiting for trains and in the subway. Very, very different from people in New York. Japanese people may end up crushed in tight inside the cars during rush hour, but they are sure are orderly while waiting for/and boarding a train. This photo shows that.
Alexander Kazakov25-Oct-2024 06:40
Amazing! V
Pierre Martin24-Oct-2024 22:40
oh boy, quite crowded, not my kind of daily situation i would be on!
Dan Greenberg24-Oct-2024 22:14
Definitely a lot more crowded on this particular line at least, than it was when I took bullet trains from Tokyo, Kyoto, etc in 2001 and 1998. Excellent story telling image. ~BV~
janescottcumming24-Oct-2024 18:56
Very orderly looking! V
hayl24-Oct-2024 16:07
Yikes, that's some commute!
Tom Munson24-Oct-2024 15:04
Indeed crowded. Nice capture.
joseantonio24-Oct-2024 14:52
what amazed me in my two visits there was the way they were always keeping the line...V
bill friedlander24-Oct-2024 14:43
A well behaved crowd. V
globalgadabout24-Oct-2024 14:22
you'd need a lot of patience to negotiate the commute here...striking too is the uniformity of their business-wear..