This looks straight out of Metroid Prime. Really cool design.
Shinjuku Station in 3D
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#62I’m on a flight back to the states after a 10 day trip to Tokyo with the fam. We probably rode 100 trains through who knows how many stations, and I kept thinking how cool it would be to visualize the pathways that people take as they navigate through the corridors. Timely and cool find!
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#63Awesome 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…
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I always tell friends to just go to any east exit and make their way outside. That's most likely where they're headed and it's easier to navigate outside the station than inside.
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#65I 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…
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#66They're connecting Tokyo and Nihonbashi stations underground which will effective connect 10 stations in total with underground passages so that would be another interesting 3d map Also, that map seems incomplete by at least a 3rd. The connection between it and Shinjuku-3-chome station is missing (the hallways just arbitrarily stop on that map) and the tunnels from there to the south entrance of Shinjuku station are…
Looks like the cutoff is from the source governmental data. It's also missing Tochoumae and Nishishinjuku, even though it has Shinjuku-nishiguchi and Seibu Shinjuku.
Tochoumae and Nishi-shinjuku are not connected underground, at least not in a pedstrian way. you have to exit to the surface then go back down. (unless they added something I'm unaware of). Touchoumae looks like it's connect at a glance on google map but zoom in and they are not.
Travelled through there every day for years but maybe I missed a hallway.
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#67Earlier quoted context omitted.
The signs are incredibly confusing and often will all point to each other from every direction.
No they aren't. People who say this have never spent a significant amount of time there.
TIL 21 years is not enough time to notice confusing signs.
Two signs pointing at each other (I've seen way more of this but here is one example): https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSe-8IR...
In addition to signs pointing to each other, you also see several signs at once pointing to the same thing in opposite directions: https://skyticket.jp/guide/wp-content/uploads/pixta_46188735...
Or signs pointing the same direction for both East and West exits: https://basyauma.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/01/IMG_5141-2-1...
and https://owl-eat-drink.s3.ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/tokyo/...
Same thing at Ikebukuro: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
There are many, many more examples of this.
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#68love this. reminds me of glitching out the map in a ps1 game
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#69Earlier quoted context omitted.
No they aren't. People who say this have never spent a significant amount of time there.
TIL 21 years is not enough time to notice confusing signs. Two signs pointing at each other (I've seen way more of this but here is one example): https://encrypted-tbn0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcSe-8IR... In addition to signs pointing to each other, you also see several signs at once pointing to the same thing in opposite directions: https://skyticket.jp/guide/wp-content/uploads/pixta_46188735... Or signs pointi…
All of those signs legitimately point towards the destinations on them. I don't understand what your argument is.
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#70This is an excellent visualization! I would love to see someone adapt this data into a first-person navigation game. The game should put you at some location in the station complex and ask you to navigate to some location. This would be excellent training for people visiting the real-life Shinjuku station for the first time.
As far as I remember Tokyo stations are all easy to navigate if you use Google maps. You get a letter for the exit, and you just follow the signs