"This leaves an initial bad impression in Kyoto central station, where you have many people arrive from Osaka and you end up with people stood on both sides of

"This leaves an initial bad impression in Kyoto central station, where you have many people arrive from Osaka and you end up with people stood on both sides of the escalators." Thanks! That explains a lot. It was pretty clear that you usually stand on the left, except in Osaka. Kyoto, however, confused the hell out of me, because people sometimes stood on the left, sometimes on the right. Very un-Japanese, I dare say. Now I know why.