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Shinjuku Station in 3D

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Re: Shinjuku Station in 3D

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Post by epolanski »

ggm wrote: post #29

I've never really had crowd fear, but after a crush event at an agricultural fair underpass, I acquired it. Shinjuku just before rush-hour brought it back on, and I basically ran away and sat under a tree for an hour or so. I've been in Tokyo and Ikebukuro at busy times, but nothing has been like Shinjuku to me. Maybe it's the escalators and a certain ordered-but-relentless ant-army mentality getting to the platforms…

To put it in perspective, if you wanted to say "hi" to every person entering Shinjuku in a single day, and it took you one second to do so, it would take you 35 days of uninterrupted greeting.

Re: Shinjuku Station in 3D

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Post by epolanski »

pezezin wrote: post #42
SapporoChris wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't do this. The station is very busy and the commuters do not have time to navigate around people focused on their smartphones. Instead, familiarize yourself with the general layout. There's no need to memorize the entire map, only the portion you will be using. Inside the station there are plenty of signs overhead and even on the floor to help navigate.

How do you expect tourists, including people coming from other regions of Japan, to familiarize themselves with the layout?

I've been in Shinjuku few times, I've always got lost.

Found a "hack" where I would go upstairs to the mall and then go down closer to the spot I need.

Shinjuku is way too massive (and now has plenty of diversions due to work om the station itself) to be understood easily by a tourist.

Re: Shinjuku Station in 3D

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Post by epolanski »

ranger_danger wrote: post #21
SapporoChris wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please don't do this. The station is very busy and the commuters do not have time to navigate around people focused on their smartphones. Instead, familiarize yourself with the general layout. There's no need to memorize the entire map, only the portion you will be using. Inside the station there are plenty of signs overhead and even on the floor to help navigate.

The signs are incredibly confusing and often will all point to each other from every direction.

Not only that but Shinjuku is under massive renovation work which makes the signs genuinely outdated at times.

Re: Shinjuku Station in 3D

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Post by epolanski »

nickhodge wrote: post #35

NO WONDER I've become lost in Shinjuku Station on at least 3 occasions!

Every person I know me included got lost there multiple times, yet some users here get offended by this somehow.

If you take the gross area of Shinjuku, including its multiple maze-like levels, it is comparable to the size of city centers of Florence or Bologna.

Re: Shinjuku Station in 3D

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Post by javchz »

Awesome project.

I consider myself someone with a good sense of direction in big buildings, malls, hospitals, etc., maybe a side effect to playing video games and such, but it's rare for me to get lost in big, complex structures.

But man, Shinjuku humbled me badly. That thing is a Metroidvania level IRL. If you ever go there, please don't buy a ticket with only 5 minutes to get to the right platform. Give yourself at least 15 minutes or more.

It's an awesome place, but even with signs in English, it can be easy to get lost.

Re: Shinjuku Station in 3D

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Post by thenthenthen »

kazinator wrote: post #48

I don't understand some of the pedestrian passages between the levels. They are way too steep to be escalators or stairs, yet Shinjuku does not have elevators with slanted shafts, does it?! I think this is more of a schematic in the sense that the vertical dimension is not to scale; the levels are farther apart than actually, which exaggerates the slopes. Also, some of the passages may be indicating elevators with op…

Exactly these are escalators similar to the representation on existing 2d station maps!

Re: Shinjuku Station in 3D

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Post by ChoGGi »

ragebol wrote: post #49

My wife had a terrible fear of loosing me in this station, afraid she would loose me and never find me back :-) . It felt like the biggest station we knew before, multiplied by 10 and then molded and warped like a ball of dough. IIRC there is a multi-level bus terminal at this station too that we had to use to get to Narita airport, which we had never seen before for a bus terminal. Would love to go to Japan again, b…

Tell her to hold you tighter, she'll lose you if she loosens her grip.
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