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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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Post by panny »

loorke wrote: post #23
decimalenough wrote: post #12

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...

Yeah, I've noticed this as well. They not only slowly close old stations, but they almost stopped building new ones since about 2007. I don't understand why people downvote your comment. It isn't like you're forcing them to have babies and do something about the world by stating the fact about Japan's decline

The "decline" you mention is privatization of JR and their efforts to make it more profitable. Privatization started in 1987, but it wasn't fully privatized until 2006.

If it has anything to do with babies, you have your cause and effect reversed. Autos are a cause of declining birth rates...

https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/731812

So a reduction in trains causes a reduction in birth rates, not the other way around.

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

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Post by panny »

decimalenough wrote: post #12

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...

>closed due to depopulation

Meanwhile, there's more people in the city of Tokyo than nearly the whole continent of Australia :) Japan's population is concentrating into a handful of big cities. I mean, who wants to live in a small town when there are endless options for shopping, restaurants, etc in the big city? It's not like in the US where big cities are dangerous. There's not much of a positive tradeoff for choosing small town life in Japan. Maybe you think you want to be a big land baron as all Americans seem to desire, but then you find out that undeveloped land in Japan is heavily taxed with property taxes. If you are not doing something very productive with Japan's limited land, Japan wants you to move your arse off it and let someone with a plan work it. Anyway, as rural areas empty out, the local rail lines close. JR is however building lots of bullet trains to connect the big cities. There is a new bullet train line opening soon between Shin-Hakodate and Sapporo for instance. It will probably be extended from Sapporo up to Asahikawa after that.

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

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Post by elxr »

LurkandComment wrote: post #16

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

It's beautiful I agree, but that "designer" is just claude opus.

Lots of examples on x and on reddit of similarly styled apps made with the help of opus.

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

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Post by rlorenzo »

ageitgey wrote: post #10
zzleeper wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Anthropic's own frontend-design skill attempts to do that. You can install it in Claude Code, or you can tweak it to be closer to your own style: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/... But what I find works best is to point Claude at a design system documentation website (your own company's or another public source) and tell it to use that design style. It usually does OK, and the results are…

That skill has not been updated since its release.

I would suggest checking out this project for a boost in design skills:

https://impeccable.style

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

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Post by busymom0 »

klabb3 wrote: post #11
kalleboo wrote: post #2

Never seen this one before: "[Error] SecurityError: Attempt to use history.replaceState() more than 100 times per 10 seconds"

I had a near-instant crash too, but different kind. Firefox iOS. The vibes are leaking

On iOS, all browsers use WKWebView behind the scenes as required by Apple. So crash behavior is similar to Safari.

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

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Post by game_the0ry »

throwup238 wrote: post #21
game_the0ry wrote: post #17

Very cool. I am a sucker for good design and this site was beautiful to look at. I noticed that most of the track was laid down in the 1920s and 1930s. Any ideas why?

> I noticed that most of the track was laid down in the 1920s and 1930s. Any ideas why? They were originally built for military logistics to move troops, guns, and supplies around the country.

You have to appreciate how people would think long term back then. We lost that quality -- our corporate leaders can't think past 1 quarter.

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

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Post by wolvoleo »

panny wrote: post #40
wolvoleo wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

>people getting wealthier and buying cars Haha, my experience is people buying cars feel poorer, not wealthier. Car payments, maintenance, insurance, taxes, fuel... and as soon as you finish paying it off, it's basically EOL. Time to start paying for the next one.

True but at least where I'm from it's a huge status symbol. Every time a neighbour gets a new car the whole street is jealous and talking about it.

I personally find driving very stressful and wasteful of my time so I hate cars. Even when I had one from work. In fact that was worse because they only give you a work car because the job involves loads of driving. Even though the tax man wanted lots of money for something I didn't even want in the first place.

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

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Post by linguae »

panny wrote: post #42
decimalenough wrote: post #12

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...

>closed due to depopulation Meanwhile, there's more people in the city of Tokyo than nearly the whole continent of Australia :) Japan's population is concentrating into a handful of big cities. I mean, who wants to live in a small town when there are endless options for shopping, restaurants, etc in the big city? It's not like in the US where big cities are dangerous. There's not much of a positive tradeoff for choos…

I love Tokyo (I spent eight months in Kawasaki in 2010), but I can see the appeal of living in a smaller place in Japan (though I’d personally be hesitant to live in a small, isolated town with little or no public transportation). Crowded trains and long lines can get tiring after a while.

I spent last summer in Toyohashi in Aichi Prefecture; I was a visiting researcher at Toyohashi University of Technology. While Toyohashi is not a small town by any means, it is far smaller than Tokyo. I found it nice for day-to-day living. Not crowded at all, and I found the bus service to be good; not world class, but comprehensive and ran frequently enough to be useful. It had plenty of grocery stores and department stores for everyday living. If I needed something unavailable in Toyohashi, Nagoya wasn’t too far away, and if I needed to be in Tokyo, I could get there in 90 minutes on a Hikari train on the Tokaido Shinkansen. I’d do it again; in fact, I’m going back to Toyohashi in a few weeks for another monthly stay.

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

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Post by thih9 »

IncreasePosts wrote: post #32
kccqzy wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hate the History API especially pushState. Even with this limit of 100 times per 10 seconds it still pollutes my browsing history too much. I need to vibe code an extension that makes pushState/replaceState noops on all webpages.

Then you'll discover many pages are SPAs in disguise.

Such as?

Because joke’s on you, my browser gets so slow that I know when a page is a SPA, even when it uses History API.

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

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Post by flaviolivolsi »

chamomeal wrote: post #14

Super cool but I did get this error while scrolling the timeline on safari/iOS Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading jivx.com (see the browser console for more information).

Same on Firefox/Linux
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