Looks like half of Berlin's train stations.
Japan's Creepiest Station
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Re: Japan's Creepiest Station
#52Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep its not creepy its just a train station. I live in a big city and not-well-lit stations are common and its just a boring fact of life no one even notices here. But to an outsider trying to exoticize things, suddenly its "creepy" or "weird." I mean "the descent is terrifying?" It just stairs. We have this in DC, NYC, and Chicago. To a Chicagoan like me, these 'terrifying tunnels' are just our train station and whe…
I caught a train through this station last year without knowing about it. It was very noticeably different from any other station I've caught a train through in Japan. I generally agree with you that a lot of ridiculous fake information about Japan gets posted online, though. (especially in spammy Facebook groups and AI-assisted Instagram reels)
That's fine, but were you terrified? Scared and having a panic attack and clutching your purse? Were you worried you ended up in "Silent Hill" like the author of this sensationalized piece?
I'm guessing like any unbiased person you just noticed this is a deep tunnel and that's interesting on its own and can be written about and expressed non-sensationally and without Matrix-like filters on photos.
Imagine instead of exoticizing and orientalizing this, we had an article about its unique architecture style, who the architects were, why it is so deep, quotes from the people there, a comprehensive history, information about the surrounding town and region, etc. Its bothersome to me that we're regerssing back to the world of grifters and sensationalists. I feel like the popularity of Atlas Obscura-style stuff is a sad reflection of the times we're in. We collectively decided facts, respect, diversity, respecting other cultures, challenge, and merit are put on the backburner for sensationalism, ego pleasing, rent-seeking, mindlessness, intellectual dishonesty, and engaging in popular stereotypes.
Re: Japan's Creepiest Station
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
Yep its not creepy its just a train station. I live in a big city and not-well-lit stations are common and its just a boring fact of life no one even notices here. But to an outsider trying to exoticize things, suddenly its "creepy" or "weird." I mean "the descent is terrifying?" It just stairs. We have this in DC, NYC, and Chicago. To a Chicagoan like me, these 'terrifying tunnels' are just our train station and whe…
In a world where everyone already knows and has seen everything, people will seek to make mundane things more mysterious and exotic. Just the way it is.
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Re: Japan's Creepiest Station
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would rather take stairs instead a really long escalator, it's scary af (when going down).
Really? I've gone down long escalators before and it doesn't feel scary, and I'm scared of heights.
I'd guess that a long narrow escalator could make someone feel "trapped", in a way that regular stairs generally wouldn't.
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#55Creepy is subjective of course, but it’s pretty high on the list for the most isolated and/or inconveniently-located platform in the country. The only access is via a narrow footbridge leading to a 486-step staircase that goes 70m underground (230ft). Unlike most other 50+ meter deep train stations, there are no elevators and no escalators. The only way in or out of the station is via those stairs, which makes platfo…
Yep its not creepy its just a train station. I live in a big city and not-well-lit stations are common and its just a boring fact of life no one even notices here. But to an outsider trying to exoticize things, suddenly its "creepy" or "weird." I mean "the descent is terrifying?" It just stairs. We have this in DC, NYC, and Chicago. To a Chicagoan like me, these 'terrifying tunnels' are just our train station and whe…
I wouldn’t read so much into it, I think it’s just a bit exaggerated for the clickbait. It's a few gloomy pics.
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#56Here’s a short horror game from last year that really serves that creepy Japanese subway vibe:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2653790/The_Exit_8/
Tangential, but any opportunity to share something so good cannot be missed. It is brilliant.
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#57This is a creepy station, green filters notwithstanding. The article repeats this statement that I've seen elsewhere and always found pretty questionable - that 800 people have died on Tanigawa. I've no idea where this data comes from but it seems very unlikely. If you just want to get to the top by the simplest route then it's a non-technical day hike up a not-very-high mountain. It's also a multi-pitch rock climbin…
Wikipedia also says the same thing, both in English and in Japanese, and in both languages uses this report[1] as the source. This in turn sources a medical journal and a report by a mountaineering club. I don't know Japanese and can't really check whether these are reliable sources that actually exist. Essentially what this report says is that after WWII, particularly in the late 50s and the 60s, there were lots of climbers and unsafe routes, causing a large number of fatalaties. Afterwards there's a sharp decrease, though still pretty significant numbers.
Re: Japan's Creepiest Station
#58Earlier quoted context omitted.
I would rather take stairs instead a really long escalator, it's scary af (when going down).
Really? I've gone down long escalators before and it doesn't feel scary, and I'm scared of heights.
I'm going to guess the person suffers from vertigo, as have I to a small degree - particularly on the metro escalator in Rosslyn, VA (across the river from DC). The sensation occurs going down or up very tall escalators in a tunnel. When it hits, you feel like you are traveling horizontally with some weird tunnel vision. This is terrifying and can cause you to feel like you're falling - even when you know you are going down or up, your eyes are telling you you're traveling horizontally.
I've also gotten this driving a car through long tunnels as well, going down or up (Baltimore 895 harbor tunnel can do this).
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#59Japan train stations are interesting. Another interesting set of stations are the so-called “train stations of despair”. These stations, particularly in Tokyo prefecture, are in the middle of no where at the end of a line. If you live out towards these stations and you’re coming home from a night out in Shinjuku on the last train and you so happen to fall asleep and miss your stop, you’ll likely wake up at one of the…
If somebody wonders how those stations and the town surrounding them look like, you can see an example here [1]
[1] https://soranews24.com/2024/12/21/station-of-despair-what-to...
Re: Japan's Creepiest Station
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
I caught a train through this station last year without knowing about it. It was very noticeably different from any other station I've caught a train through in Japan. I generally agree with you that a lot of ridiculous fake information about Japan gets posted online, though. (especially in spammy Facebook groups and AI-assisted Instagram reels)
That's fine, but were you terrified? Scared and having a panic attack and clutching your purse? Were you worried you ended up in "Silent Hill" like the author of this sensationalized piece? I'm guessing like any unbiased person you just noticed this is a deep tunnel and that's interesting on its own and can be written about and expressed non-sensationally and without Matrix-like filters on photos. Imagine instead of…
That's true. It wasn't scary, of course. Just a very interesting station because I noticed that it must be more or less in a mountain. The train had been traveling through a tunnel for quite a while before stopping there, so I hadn't been expecting the stop.