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I had a train arrive two minutes late over the weekend in Osaka and I could see people visibly agitated and worried when looking down the platform.
by Washuu 3y ago
I had a train arrive two minutes late over the weekend in Osaka and I could see people visibly agitated and worried when looking down the platform.
- throwaway2037 3y agoThe hype about "on time all the time" is a well-loved-by-foreign-media myth in Japan. Yes, many trains are nearly perfect (Shinkansen, especially), but plenty of Tokyo metro lines are delayed by a few minutes during the daily rush hour crush. The point: They run so many damn trains, you can just get on another one.
- david-gpu 3y agoBecause commuters often have tight connections to make and if a train is two minutes late that can be enough to miss the next train and be late to work, which is a big no-no.