Why do you sleep in a cube?

The 9 hour capsule hotel is a small cube that you sleep in!  The idea of the hotel is to stay for 9 hours then leave. You have about one hour to eat, seven hours to sleep, and another hour to shower and rest. You get only one night to stay and sleep compared to a normal hotel where you can stay for days or longer. I would like to stay in a capsule hotel because they look comfortable. They are small but cozy and the things there look nice. The lobby looks nice, the shower area is also nice. Would you like to stay their?

Funny Bone

“Haha!” I squealed as someone hit my funny bone. I glanced back me and saw the pushers cramming more people into the train car, that was already packed. As I was turning my head back, I got the air knocked out of me. I would have fallen over if it wasn’t for all of the other people on all sides of me, holding me up. What horrid place could possibly make me endure all of this agony? This is just another regular day at the train station in Tokyo, Japan. From last week’s ride, I still have bruises from the pusher shoving me so very hard to get into the train car. This is just one of the many challenges as a result of overpopulation, facing citizens in Japan every day. The train car is always at maximum capacity. I like to think of the train car as an adventure. It is an adventure everyday just getting to work. Some days, I cannot get to work because of the crowded train car can’t fit any more people in, even when the pushers push and push. In the end, I think that to get to work I will just take a taxi cab. You can’t get bruises from taxi cabs. What would you do in this situation?

CHOO! CHOO! TRAINs

Choo! Choo!

Trains. They are a major transportation systems for people in Japan. There are millions of people who use the train everyday, and the trains stations are jam packed! People fight their way to get on trains. Then people that are to push people, hired people start shoving people in! The hired people also have to shut the doors closed because there are so many people. The doors can’t even close! I’m fighting for a spot kicking, punching, scratching, and hair pulling. When you live in a city with over 127 million people it's hard to get to places on time. So you’re racing to get to the train, then fighting to get a spot on the train, then sitting in a hot uncomfortable train.

Your Stay In Japan

You have just arrived in Japan, from Michigan. Your lost and don't have a place to stay. As you keep walking you see a sign that says 9h. The people working at the front desk give you slippers. You set your shoes aside put on the slippers and follow the arrows on the floor. It's now 9:00 and you decide you want to go to bed, because of your long flight. The arrows lead you to two bathrooms one for girls and one for boys. You get inside the bathroom and see that the  room has cupboards for you to put your stuff in, inside the cupboards they have a robe and a tooth brush with 9h on both. After you get ready for bed you see more arrows you follow them, it leads you to a dark room with weird bed things. At first you don't understand what they are, then you realize that they're you beds. You fund your number and see that the capsule is really wide and super long there a light, a shade you can close for privacy, there's even a t.v. You go to sleep and can't wait to discover more things in Japan. As you wake up and leave the building your left wondering, what was that place that I stayed in?

Insane Intesection

The light blinks, the crowds swarm. You try to run, for you are in a hurry  but you can’t. People are surrounding you. Babies, grandpa's, kids, dogs, you name it’s there. You are only one of the 2.5 million pedestrians that come to the Shibuya Tokyo, Japan intersection a day.  After you go to the glorious malls and the savory  food in Shibuya,you must go to the intersection again. People are yelling and shoving when you arrive. The smell of the streets and body odor is foul but this is the only way to get where you need to be. The light turns to the walking sign it and seems like time stops. Cars are no where in your sight. All you can see is  people everywhere.  There is even a kid on the ground  being stepped on as his parents frantically try up to get him up. It takes you a full three minutes to walk through the intersection which is about the size of your lunchroom. In the end, you decide that it might be better next time to take the crowded train to the crowded wave pool instead of taking the crowded intersection.

Overcrowded Trains

            Once upon a time, I traveled to Japan for a business trip. I had been to New York City, so I believed that I would do fine in the crazy train station.
               When arrived at the station, I realized that I probably should of rented a car. If I thought New York's subways were bad, these were a thousands times worse. Hundreds of thousands of people were crowded in the station, like a colony of ant, pushing, yelling an fighting. The train was much worse though. There were people dressed in uniform pushing people into the trains so that everyone could fit. I couldn't breath!
               As soon as the train stopped, I got of, even thought it was not my stop. I fought my way out of the train with thousands of other people, and vowed that I would always rent a car. Could you survive a Japanese train ride?

MOVE OUT MY WAY!

“OW!” I yelled as someone jammed their elbow into my shoulder blade. A tingle traveled down to my wrist.  I tripped over someone's untied shoe laces but didn’t stop trying to get onto this train. Twenty people around me were doing the same. How am I going to make it to work if I can’t squeeze on the last square inch of the space left? The workers started to haul the door shut. At the last second I gave it my all and bulldozed into train. The doors shut behind me. Ten people who couldn’t manage to get on the train would probably get in a lot of trouble for being late to their work. I made it, although the person next to me looked like they were about to hurl from the mobbed train. For me this is an everyday bustle.  I feel a heel stepping on my toe, a sharp zipper in my back, and two elbows jabbing my ribs. Now all  that I can do is wait for twenty more minutes until my stop.

This activity of cramming and shoving onto a train is a twice a day ordeal for people like the one above.  It takes place in Tokyo, Japan. In my opinion this is not right for people to be pushing to get on a train. I bet many people get hurt by getting on this train. The people in charge need to do something about this. Passengers who have to go on it do not have a car and this is their only way to get to work! It needs to be safer. Can you imagine doing this everyday? Do you think this needs to change? How?