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Originally Posted by Thomas Ralph
Meanwhile when I was in Japan a couple of weeks ago a ten-minute delay to a train had polite station staff handing out apology dockets to passengers getting off the train, and a one-hour delay got written up in national newspapers.
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I lived in Tokyo for a few months about 10 years ago and they have things slightly better organised there but then that is because they kind of have to. At the time Shinjuku station handled more than three million passengers per day and some lines had a train every 90 seconds. I think it is heading for 4 million per day at this stage.
So if it didn't all run perfectly it just collapsed altogether as tended to happen quite a bit at the time due to suicides.