The Train Story

Have you ever been on a train? Airplane? Bus? Or any mode of public transportation? Well, as crowded as that experience might have been, the trains in Tokyo are 10 times worse. Especially during rush hour. Imagine you trying to go to your work and your car just got towed yesterday because you left it at the beach and didn't pay the parking toll. You don't have enough money to get it back right now. But after a day's work, you will be able to get it back. So, instead, you need to ride the morning train. You walk to the station and see that there is a line extending outside the doors. You wait reluctantly for at least an hour. You finally get inside the station and you hear the announcer say that everyone needs to get to the track. You start moving towards the door. Or at least trying to. You are getting pushed and shoved by a bunch if people in a rush to get to work. You wonder if this is really worth all the trouble. The answer to your question is I don't know. It is way too crowded in one small space. WHY ISN'T IT BIGGER! These are the thoughts running through your head when you start very slowly and cautiously walking the the double doors made of glass. You hear the train whistle getting louder every few seconds. Then the floor starts to rumble and you know the train is coming. You start to look around and people don't even seem to care. Like almost getting pushed onto the track is normal. Just then, the train comes stalking down the track. When the train stops, you can clearly hear all of the yelling, talking and movement inside even when the doors are closed. You stand on your tiptoes to try and get a good look at the train. You still can't see the train, so being the curious person that you are, you find a ledge and decide to stand on it to get a better look, muttering apologies as you move towards it. Once you get there, you stand on it, you can't believe what you see. You look through the tinted window and saw what seems like millions of people. Finally, about a dozen men come out of a car wearing navy blue uniforms and matching hats. They move towards the doors, about two guards at each door. The pry the doors open at the same time, and there is an explosion of noise going through the station. People rushing out all over the place and you have to fight to stay on your ledge. People flood out like a tidal wave. You were surprised that the guards weren't knocked off of the boarding station and onto the track. You surely would have. Once all of the other passengers had filed out, it was your turn to go in. People started moving towards the train and you got pushed off of your ledge. Luckily, you caught your balance and got onto the concrete. You were in the middle of the pack, so you kept getting your new shoes stepped on. You bit back sassy remarks to the people who were stepping on your shoes. Mostly because you were stepping on other people's shoes as well. You managed to look ahead, and those same guards in the same uniforms were pushing people on the train. Wow, how rude you though. But then it dawned on you why the guards were pushing people into the train. They were trying to fit them all in. Soon, you felt the guards pushing you into the train too. Your fingers almost got stuck!!! When you were finally settled on the train, you could only think about how you never wanted to do this again. And you never had to because you got your car back. Just remember not to leave your car not payed for at the beach. :)

THE HORRIBLE TRAIN STATION PROBLEMS IN JAPAN!!!!

Let me set your mind on a picture. Imagine you're waiting to get on a train to get to work with 10 or 20 other people. Then when the train pulls in, you are pushed into a heavily packed train car by the people behind you and the workers at the station. Well guess what? This scene I just put you in happens every day. Almost everyday people get shoved onto trains by people. And people are actually paid to stuff train passengers into the trains that are so packed. I think this is a horrible situation being stuffed into a train everyday. Can you imagine doing this? It would be so horrible. My question is if they want off how do they get off the train if everyone off the train is trying to get on. In conclusion, this is horrible and if i was there i would just walk to work.

A Morning in Japan

It’s another morning in Japan and you’re going to work by train. Well, Your goal of the morning is to get a seat on the train to work. But, it’s going to be a little bit harder than you think. First of all you have to reach the station as early as you can.  Your train leaves at 7 a.m and you reach at 5 a.m. But there is still a crowd of people still waiting as if the train was coming now. So, you wait in the crowd of people and as time passes more and more people come. Eventually it gets extremely crowded and you don’t even have enough space to move your arms. The train eventually comes. The only problem is that there are already a bunch of people on the train everybody is going with them. Eventually people start boarding the train and it’s a mess. You end up getting shoved in super hard and you are barely in the train. You feel extremely crowded and you can barely breathe because of the amount to people in there. You have to be on the train for about 15 min which will feel like forever. The train starts to move and you fall on somebody because you were off balance. More and more people come on the train and you feel like you're gonna faint because of how hot it is. This is something that people in Japan have to face every morning. If you don’t want this to happen for many people than what are your solutions to solving this problem?

Small Boxes For Small People?

Capsule hotels consists of small capsule rooms. Capsule hotels in Japan are cheap and small. Most capsule rooms come with a radio, television, alarm clock and free WiFi. Some capsule rooms feel like you're in a small box. Every hotel has public bathroom and lockers to put your stuff in. Capsule hotels range from anywhere to thirty to fifty dollars a week. Each capsule hotel is stacked side-by-side. Often people call some capsule hotels sleep boxes. Most capsule hotels are in Japan. The reason why most capsule hotels are in japan is because they were first created in japan.People have suggested that if you have family then, you shouldn't try a capsule hotel. In my opinion I would absolutely hate to be cramped in that little space. Imagined knowing there's people right beside you. That's a little freaky.It will probably feel like you're being shipped across the country in a small tiny box. Although, it has free WiFi, I still wouldn’t even go into that small box. Do you think they have different small boxes, for different sized people.

A crowded train ride with my fam

Twenty minutes until work starts. Only two more people to be shoved in. In the distance, I hear "I hate taking the train!" On the other hand, people are suffocating, being smashed together like peas in a pod, only with 500 people in one pod. Well, this is Tokyo, Japan one of the most populated cities in the world. Eventually, the signal goes off that our train is ready to make its morning commute. "Finally" I think, they got those two people shoved in here. Then, all of a sudden, the train blasts off like a rocket, sending people flying and tumbling on to each other like gymnasts. A young American woman comes flying into my rib, sending a searing pain up my side. The struggle is real. With a city of 127 million people, you can imagine how many of those people ride a train at once!! After all, life isn't always a simple car ride to work, it's more like a simple car ride of major claustrophobia! So let me ask you this, would you be able to take on a population of this many people, or nah, is too much for you?

The Busy Metropolis of Tokyo

Have you ever been on a train? If you have, you probably didn't have to be shoved inside just so the doors could close. In Japan, this is what happens. Japan is extremely overpopulated, and just everyday life is hard to get through without being squeezed next to a bunch of strangers. People are actually hired to push people into the subway so that they can fit. And could you imagine water parks? there is one where there is a wave pool, and you cannot even see water. All you can see is people squeezed into the wave pool and moving up and down. How would they get out? I challenge you to find more places where there is an extreme population.

Your trip to Ishigaki Island!!!!

Today, we are taking a trip to Japan’s Ishigaki Island! This beautiful island is known for snorkeling, scuba diving, and surfing. There is also rare blue coral near the shore. There is also mountains that are good for climbing and hiking. It’s a relatively small island, only around 21.75 miles long. The average weather there is 80 degrees and sunny, everyday! I would love to live there! Their whole population is only 49,000 people, but it’s still the most populated of 19 islands. Imagine that you fly on connecting flights for a total of about one day and three hours to get there. What do you do first?