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All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Now we need a part two that shows how the rural parts of the same network are slowly being closed due to depopulation. As of 2025, Japan has lost 1366 km of track (about 5% of the total) since the 1990s.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_closed_railway_lines_i...

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

#13

Now we need a part two that shows how the rural parts of the same network are slowly being closed due to depopulation. As of 2025, Japan has lost 1366 km of track (about 5% of the total) since the 1990s. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_closed_railway_lines_i...

To be fair, most countries have due to privatisation and people getting wealthier and buying cars. In my country a ton of lines have closed down too and ourv population only grows.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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Cool idea! Not sure if this was created with LLM help, but I suspect so? Not because the page is buggy (it is, though, crashed on my iPhone), but because they make data visualization so accessible. This type of presentation used to take days of work; now, if you find a unique piece of data, it's only a few hours of work to create a beautiful animated visualization. I do think this would be more compelling with some a…

The Claude style (colors/fonts) give it right away. The website did also crash for me too with the famous nextjs death screen.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

#18

That whole website is just beautiful. I'd love to see more work by the designer.

Good/bad news: you will definitely see more work by them -- this style of website is clearly the output of a coding agent, maybe Claude Code.

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

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post #3

It would be interesting to see a negative bar with station closures as well. And some way to zoom the map would be nice. As a point of interest, I'll mention Tōgeshita station. A station in the middle of nowhere. Sometimes, a station would exist purely because that's where trains needed to pass one another. Tōgeshita was one of those. Whenever I passed the station, it was strange, almost a creepy feeling. I think it…

This is a station which exists solely for transfer between two lines. It has no entrance. Idea always made me a bit nervous: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manulla_Junction_railway_stati...

Re: All 9,300 Japanese train station, animated by the year it opened (1872–2026)

#20
post #8

Cool idea! Not sure if this was created with LLM help, but I suspect so? Not because the page is buggy (it is, though, crashed on my iPhone), but because they make data visualization so accessible. This type of presentation used to take days of work; now, if you find a unique piece of data, it's only a few hours of work to create a beautiful animated visualization. I do think this would be more compelling with some a…

I created pages with Claude before and it's very very obvious when you see one. From the font choice to the color palette, and the style of the boxes. In fact if anyone has an effective prompt that says "please don't make this look like the average Claude page" please post it!

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